Look Out, Here Comes the ‘Feral Underclass’
What made last week's London rioting all the more 'achingly sad'? The rioters weren't challenging greed. They were celebrating it. Do we understand why? Oppressed people riot. Oppression and rioting...
From academics to activists, thoughtful people worldwide are focusing their attention on economic inequality as never before.
What made last week's London rioting all the more 'achingly sad'? The rioters weren't challenging greed. They were celebrating it. Do we understand why? Oppressed people riot. Oppression and rioting...
The life experiences of the wealthy, new psychological research suggests, leaves the rich less compassionate and altruistic than people of more modest means. Patriotism, as Samuel Johnson suggested long ago,...
The American political system isn't working for average Americans anymore. Don't blame the Tea Party, new research suggests. Blame inequality. In a sensible republic, democratically elected leaders come together in...
The private sector's declining union presence, two top sociologists contend, explains a major chunk of America's growing wage inequality. In the 1950s, Sears Roebuck, a nonunion employer, dominated the American...
At times of fiscal crisis, President Franklin Roosevelt believed, you don't give the awesomely affluent a free pass. You pound them — and then you pound some more. Against a...
New Census survey stats show a substantial widening in the net worth gap between and within white, black, and Hispanic America. Has the Great Recession been an equal opportunity destroyer?...
Like a pack of men in suits mud wrestling, Washington's budget battle would be entertaining to watch if we the people weren't about to get hurt. The zeal of Republican...
Corporate America, advises one of the nation's most prestigious management consulting companies, needs to wake up and stop rewarding employee loyalty and performance. With one exception. You work hard. You...
Rich people-friendly lawmakers subscribe to a theory that considers any tax increase on the rich a reckless step down a slippery slope to economic disaster. Two top economists have just...
The global media spotlight may be gone, but Egypt's revolutionaries are still making history, with a spirited campaign for a 'maximum wage.' The global press corps is no longer hanging...