Blogging Our Great Divide

A slick new ad campaign from America’s most notorious billionaires is tugging at our heartstrings — and distorting the debate over inequality. The good news? We have a new antidote.

David Dayen's insightful new book dives into the aftermath of the mortgage meltdown with page-turning real life stories of the activists that fought back. If you liked Michael Lewis’ The Big Short,...

Let’s stop waiting for corporate insiders to fix our growing executive pay mess.

To understand why the IRS is under attack, follow the money.

Our global economy will never become more productive, the developed world’s official economic research agency suggests, if we continue to let wealth concentrate.

Working families are turning their anger at Wall Street into action.

Think you've heard it all about the Koch Brothers and the power of dark money? Think again. 

Flacks for grand fortune would like us to believe the rich are performing a public service every time they go shopping. Our wallets tell a different story.

A proposal to put more muscle into the firm’s approach to CEO pay failed, but some are declaring it a victory.

While taxes have increased on the top one percent in recent years, taxes on the top one tenth of one percent have gone down.