Sarah Anderson

Before happy hour time, the typical top exec will have pocketed more than home health aides, firefighters, pre-K teachers, and other essential workers will make the whole year.

Champions of a more egalitarian society made important strides, building the power of workers while reducing the power of wealthy tax dodgers and greedy pharma execs.

Citizen-led initiatives scored big wins in the midterms. But now this form of direct democracy is under attack.

Voters approved proposals to tax the rich, build worker power, and make housing and education more affordable.