Historical Background

What’s behind skyrocketing American inequality? Campaign finance rulings may hold some answers.

High taxes on the rich, cheerleaders for grand fortune tell us, kill the entrepreneurial spirit. What does history tell us?

A living interactive publication grapples with the dimensions, roots, and consequences of inequality in the United States.

The newspaper publishing giant E.W. Scripps would be deeply distressed to see what has become of his namesake company — and beloved country.