Blogging Our Great Divide

We're witnessing accelerating advantages for the affluent and compounding disadvantages for everyone else.

George Lakey's new book explains how the Nordic countries have achieved their egalitarian society and high standard of living

Billionaire banker Jamie Dimon says he’s fighting inequality. If we take him seriously, the joke — and much worse — will be on us.

For the first time, Democrats are acknowledging America's deep racial wealth gap — and the policies that created it.

With people of color soon dominating the working class, it's even more important that everyone earns a living wage. Without this we are doomed to eternal inequality.

In an era of seemingly endless political commentary, you could be excused for not digging into the 40 pages of less-than-breathless prose that make up the working draft of the...

The draft Democratic Platform talks tough on Wall Street. Have the industry’s jitters over Trump strengthened the party’s hand?

Banks are squeezing consumers because the squeezing can really pay off — at the top.

Unrepentant House Republicans have put forward yet another tax reform package that funnels wealth upward – and leaves most Americans poorer.

We all know what happened in the City of Brotherly Love well over two centuries ago on July 4. Maybe we should also pay some attention to what happened two months later.