Blogging Our Great Divide

Wealth is more concentrated now than it was in John D. Rockefeller's day.

Our politics needs to face up to inequality’s deep-set impact on all of us as individuals.

The company has made millions off Colin Kaepernick's message. That money should go right back to the cause that message supports.

One often-forgotten group of people have the information — and the motivation — to tame the beasts of finance.

Should cities build new fossil fuel pipelines to power skyscrapers for the super-rich?

For average Americans, the U.S. economy hardly merits any kudos. Two new data dumps make that reality even plainer.

From country farmland to big city skyscrapers, absentee billionaires may be hiding wealth in your town — and driving up your cost of living.

Boston’s luxury boom figures to accelerate the city's already troubling disparities of income, wealth and opportunity.

Romero promises to delve into immigration reform when she takes over the union later this year.

We know a great deal more about how unequal we’ve become than our progressive forbears did in America’s original Gilded Age. But can data fuel a fight for a more equal world?