Blogging Our Great Divide

New stats from economist Gabriel Zucman dramatize how spectacularly lucrative the last half-century has been for America’s wealthiest.

As the bankrupt toy chain attempts a comeback, retail workers who lost their jobs after private equity takeovers are fighting for accountability.

The consultants are coming — and they know just what the powerful want.

For decades in the mid 20th century, our nation’s grandest private fortunes were becoming less pronounced. And then . . .

Fed-up sports fans are stirring, and progressive pols worldwide are beginning to take notice.

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and other congressional progressives want to tax companies that overpay their CEOs. Most Republicans would go even further.

Workers at Cinder Bed Road garage are demanding equal work for equal pay in their fight against their French multinational employer.

To understand how wide our economic divide has become, a little imagination can help.

A surging egalitarian current is shifting the Democratic Party’s policy mainstream—so we asked the presidential candidates about it.

The wealthiest Americans dominate our airwaves. Let’s hear from someone else for a change.