Make Them Pay: A History of the American Struggle to Tax the Rich

How did we end up with a system that allows billionaires to pay so little income tax? In Make Them Pay, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jesse Eisinger and his reporting partner Paul Kiel investigate the history of income tax avoidance and reveal how the system is abused today—based on the shocking tax returns of America’s wealthiest people leaked to ProPublica in 2021.

In late 2020, Jesse Eisinger received an anonymous message on Signal asking for his mailing address. A few days later, he ...