California voters will decide on Proposition 40 soon, but looming over the controversial billionaire wealth tax proposal is another state ballot measure from nearly 50 years ago. In 1978, voters approved Proposition 13, which capped property taxes at just 1% of assessed value, limited annual hikes to 2%, and allowed reassessments to market value only
Original sin Kathryn Paige Harden Weidenfeld and Nicolson (2026) A 2021 analysis of genetic data from 1.5 million people, co-edited by psychologist Kathryn Paige Harden, concluded that some DNA sequences were more common in people with addiction than in those without. “This combination of genetics with incorrigibility is another legacy of the doctrine of original
