Billionaire tax: how a union leader’s ‘crazy’ idea became the defining issue of California’s midterms

What the coverage shows

All three outlets frame the story as a fight over California’s wealth tax and the money behind the opposition, but they differ in emphasis. The New York Times foregrounds a “$333 million political ad machine” and billionaire campaigning, while The Atlantic calls the effort “a cynical ploy” and focuses on voters being misled. The Guardian US is the only one to foreground the union leader’s “crazy” idea becoming a defining midterm issue and to note that the state’s super rich have “pulled out all the stops” in opposition.

Written by Crossfiled from the 3 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.