International

Two global groups have joined to create a first-ever yardstick for holding our world’s top politicos accountable, nation by nation, for narrowing our grand divides.

But greater equality, the Scandinavian story helps us understand, doesn’t just suddenly appear.

When agribusiness corporations export food at artificially low prices, they widen the economic divide between the global North and South — and within rural America.

Tips for fighting inequality from a top Oxfam campaigner.

New Zealand, by most yardsticks, used to rival equal nations like Denmark. But New Zealand’s incomes have become much more unequal — and its problems much more pressing. Steeply progressive taxes could reverse that dynamic.

In the June UK elections, all the major parties pledged themselves to stand up for ‘ordinary people.’ Will they all now confront extraordinary wealth?

With a call for an income cap on society’s richest, a longshot presidential campaign has thrown a giant scare into the French political elite.

New research points to globalization as a key driver of labor's declining share of national income, particularly in developing countries.

In response to enormous public pressure, lawmakers have rejected appeals by global corporations and voted to protect the country's people and water supply by banning metallic mining.