The Writer Tax
A new tax reform blueprint offers some sense of where the Administration wants to take tax policy—and what it means for writers.
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Trump resistance
E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Nutcracker in 2016
Recently I joke tweeted “What The Nutcracker’s Battle With the Rat King Taught Us About Trump Resistance,” as if I were writing that piece. I’m not. Last week, I traveled to Boston to watch my sister perform in her nineteenth year of Nutcracker, and the next day we sat in the Massachusetts State House, watching the state’s electors vote for Hillary Clinton. It seemed that Hoffmann’s tale had nothing to with 2016, and that issued a challenge.