Blogging Our Great Divide

Trump's running mate is part of a Clean Power Plan opposition network that tax-dodging utilities companies have helped fund.

No one will ever run the 100-meter dash in less than five seconds. And no one, Brazil’s story suggests, will ever end poverty while ignoring grand fortune.

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.