Blogging Our Great Divide

While federal lawmakers fail to pass dark money donor disclosure, voters in Arizona have an opportunity to reveal who’s exerting outsize influence in their elections.

The UN’s secretary-general is speaking truth – about inequality — to our world’s leaders.

We expected Charles to get the crown. We didn’t expect him to make a billion-dollar fortune first.

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, a reluctant billionaire, puts company in trust devoted to address ecological crisis.

The maldistribution of American income and wealth is playing a seldomly recognized rising-temperature role.

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh got an earful from essential workers before inducting them into the agency’s Hall of Honor.

By deflating today’s political ‘dark money,’ we could start securing decency for all our descendants.

The Maryland Democrat draws from his constitutional scholarship in analyzing the proposal that will be on the September 4 ballot in Chile.

Too many lawmakers are happy to dole out subsidies for the rich and corporations while resisting pay increases for educators.

Colombia’s new president has just placed a bet on greater equality. His nation’s rich can’t see him collecting.