The Case Against Taxing the Rich: Still Shaky
The political friends of America's rich aren't aiming to convince us that higher taxes on the nation's highest incomes make no sense. They're just hoping to keep us distracted. By...
From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
The political friends of America's rich aren't aiming to convince us that higher taxes on the nation's highest incomes make no sense. They're just hoping to keep us distracted. By...
In September 1974, Gerald Ford's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) introduced a new term into the English language: "entitlement program." Journalist Edwin L. Dale Jr. (who later joined Ronald...
How much can a billion dollars buy? The undivided attention of America's entire political and chattering classes. Case in point: our ongoing national fixation on debt and deficit. Down through...
Corporations, small businesses, and ordinary Americans all face tax increases at the beginning of 2013. Time is running out to avoid this so-called "Taxmageddon" scenario. Some say it already has...
Almost every single U.S. state has seen a significant growth in income inequality since the late 1970s, documents a new study from two leading Washington, D.C. think tanks. But states,...
Americans today can take more than inspiration from the struggles against plutocracy that progressives waged years ago. They can take a host of still relevant — and cutting-edge — policy...
At the beginning of 2013, the US government faces a series of automatic tax increases and spending cuts. Long before the election, way back on February 29, Federal Reserve Chairman...
Just before the election, the satirical web site The Onion ran a fake article that was purportedly written by Barack Obama. In it, the president supposedly promised to seek payments...
Yes, the poor have struggled mightily while our rich have become phenomenally flush. But middle-income Americans haven't been able to jump off the treadmill either. We’ve all heard plenty of...
An eloquent new call for a more egalitarian global future. Humanity, the London advocacy group Share the World’s Resources notes in its new gameplan for a more equal international order,...