Wealth Concentration

Butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers. You won't find any of them in this latest annual list of America's most avaricious. You will find wheelers and dealers and a candy store...

What makes a society a fun place to be? Nice weather and exciting nightlife options certainly help. So does avoiding a starkly skewed distribution of income and wealth. [caption id="attachment_5912"...

In plain yet powerful language, Pope Francis is challenging the givens of our deeply unequal world — and helping inspire resistance to it.

The view from Australia is unusually grim. A new kind of social disease has spread from recession in the United States to austerity in Europe to manufactured crisis in Australia....

In America today, thanks to glaring loopholes in the tax code, even modestly competent tax attorneys can help their wealthy clients sidestep the federal estate tax almost entirely. By Bob...

America's corporate CEOs feel entitled to pensions that pay out $86,000 monthly. To protect their entitlement, they're attacking ours: Social Security. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_5866" align="alignright" width="238"] A new...

People who cut food stamps — and gut child labor laws — most all had empathy when they came into the world. So what squeezed the empathy out? Analysts are...

Fox News may have failed to have an impact on the outcome of the 2012 Presidential election in the United States, but media organizations controlled by Rupert Murdoch celebrated a...

America's top execs don't have the time to party. They're too busy waging a corporate holy war against what may be the most promising check yet on executive pay excess....