Managing The Powerful Aurelien
Sensible people are baffled as to why the United Kingdom has as its Prime Minister a man whose sole aim seems to be to destroy the country and impose a communist-style totalitarianism. John Ellwood speculates that he is an agent of the unseen powers that are destroying Europe, Canada and the Antipodes. He believes that during Starmer’s time in Czechoslovakia in 1986 he was conditioned to become the heartless autocrat we see today.
CzechoSlovakia Project Starmer: The making of a Marxist stooge
INTERTAX: Special Issue on Zucman’s Billionaire Tax
INTERTAX has released a special issue on Gabriel Zucman’s “billionaire tax” proposal (volume 54, issue 1). From U.S. institutions, contributors include Jayati Ghosh (U. Mass., Econ.), Dan Shaviro (NYU), and Matt Zwolinski (U. San Diego, Inst. L. & Phil.). Contributions, with abstracts, below the fold.
Ana Paula Dourado (EIC) & Alice Pirlot (Geneva Graduate Inst.), Editorial: The Zucman Tax, 54 INTERTAX 3 (2026) (introducing the debate)
Gabriel Zucman (Paris Sch. Econ.), Debate: The Billionaire Tax: A (Modest) Proposal for the 21st Century, 54 INTERTAX 7 (2026) (summarizing the proposal)
Huub Brouwer (Tilburg U.) & Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht U.), Debate: The Normative Case for a Global Minimum Tax on Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals, 54 INTERTAX 9 (2026)
IRS Enforcement Leadership Changes
Bloomberg Law: IRS Leader Shake-Up Bleeds Criminal, Civil Enforcement Oversight
The line between tax auditors policing mere civil infractions versus serious tax crimes is blurring in the latest reorganization at the top of the IRS.
David Elkins (Netanya), Embracing Tax Avoidance, 34 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 327 (2024):
Avoidance is a major theme in tax law jurisprudence. Congress, the Treasury, and the courts have developed numerous doctrines to deny beneficial treatment when the taxpayer’s principal purpose or presumed principal purpose was the avoidance of taxation. Each attempt to shut down tax avoidance then becomes the opening salvo in the next round of engagement as tax planners devise means of circumventing the restrictions and new rules are developed to counter the latest avoidance maneuvers.
And so It Begins: AIs Now Talking With One Another Behind Our Backs
Meet the scourge of the mafia Leonardo Sciascia exposed Sicily’s rotten core
Slovakia PM's national security adviser resigns over Epstein links
Fico announced he had accepted Lajčák's departure in a message, describing the adviser as "an incredible source of experience in diplomacy and foreign policy"
Department of Justice Publishes 3.5 Million Responsive Pages in Compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act Department of Justice
Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Asking to Visit His Notorious Island Futurism
Stunning Epstein twist as Ghislaine Maxwell claims 29 friends cut ‘secret deals’ with DOJ Daily Mail
Palantir and Deloitte among beneficiaries of spending by government agencies
Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons
The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters
https://archive.md/OHBgPBiometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies that federal agents are tapping in their deportation campaign
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/ice-surveillance-immigrants-protesters/
The billionaire boys fight the wealth tax Oligarch Watch
All the Lonely People: An Integrated Review and Research Agenda on Work and Loneliness. Julie M. McCarthy, Berrin Erdogan, Emily Campion. Journal of Management [Open Access]. Volume 52, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063241313320
“Decades of studies spanning multiple disciplines have provided insight into the critical role of loneliness in work contexts. In spite of this extensive research, a comprehensive review of loneliness and work remains absent.
To address this gap, we conducted a multidisciplinary review of relevant theory and research and identified 213 articles reporting on 233 empirical studies from management, organizational psychology, sociology, medicine, and other domains to uncover why people feel lonely, how different features of work can contribute to feelings of loneliness, and the implications of employee loneliness for organizational settings. This enabled a critical examination of the distinct conceptualizations and operationalizations of loneliness that have been advanced and the theories underpinning this scholarship.
We developed a comprehensive conceptual model that integrates cognitive discrepancy theory, the affect theory of social exchange, and evolutionary theory.
This model elucidates the core antecedents, mediators, outcomes, moderators, and interventions forming the nomological network of work related loneliness, including cross-level influences within teams and among leaders. Our review also identifies a number of promising areas for future inquiry to improve our understanding and measurement of loneliness, the process of experiencing and managing loneliness in the workplace, and potential interventions to reduce it.
Finally, we provide tangible guidance for organizations and practitioners on how to address and mitigate employee loneliness. Ultimately, our review underscores the complex nature of loneliness and work and establishes a foundation for advancing both scholarly discourse and organizational practices in this critical domain.”
