Legislative Action

Vague rhetoric about ‘access to health care’ and ‘good jobs’ won’t challenge the plutocracy that keeps our lives brutal. These proposals could.

Redistribution via the tax code, progressives on both sides of the Atlantic are realizing, only takes us so far. We need to start limiting inequality before it can dig in.

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

Amid rising inequality, a new book argues, the notion of capping income has suddenly become politically plausible.