Extracting a Cold Hard Corporate Truth
For today’s top corporate executives, the contemporary corporation has become a personal ATM — with no limits on withdrawals.
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People Power to Stop Gentrification
Like labor unions, neighborhood unions could help residents bargain collectively for affordable housing and local business protections to prevent increased inequality.
In the Health Olympics, No U.S. Medals
If we had an Olympics for life expectancy, our deeply unequal United States wouldn’t even make it out of the early heats.
Don’t Go To Bowdoin
Malcolm Gladwell challenges firmly held beliefs around social mobility and our education system in a thoughtful, engaging, and wildly popular new podcast
Waging a Revolt Against Plutocracy
A Bernie-inspired political revolutionary on the streets in Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention talks about wealth, opportunity, and the importance of making global connections. Nico House was in the...
For the Wealthy, a Taxing New Worry
Lobbyists for America’s grandest fortunes may want to raise their rates. Capitol Hill is getting a gadfly who can really sting.
An Acceptance Speech for Hillary
What should Hillary Clinton say – and do – about inequality? Some ideas from a veteran chronicler of our unequal scene. An editor's note: James Lardner, one of the first...
It Doesn’t Have to Be ‘Us’ vs. ‘Them’
Not all white working-class voters are ready to blame their neighbors for problems caused by corporations. It’s increasingly easy to believe that our country is irreconcilably divided. But that’s not...
Trump’s Trickle-Down Ticket
Donald Trump's VP pick signals a commitment to slashing taxes for millionaires and cutting services for everyone else.
Poorer Than Their Parents
Young people are set to inherit the unequal economic heritage of their parents. Read the full article at US News and World Report. The promise of market economics is supposed...
Mike Pence’s Partners on Climate
Trump's running mate is part of a Clean Power Plan opposition network that tax-dodging utilities companies have helped fund.
From Occupy Protests to the Platforms
A lawyer-activist reflects on the significance of the Occupy Wall Street call for the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall appearing in both the Democratic and Republican Party platforms. At Occupy Wall Street...