Wealth Concentration

The political friends of America's rich aren't aiming to convince us that higher taxes on the nation's highest incomes make no sense. They're just hoping to keep us distracted. By...

In September 1974, Gerald Ford's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) introduced a new term into the English language: "entitlement program." Journalist Edwin L. Dale Jr. (who later joined Ronald...

How much can a billion dollars buy? The undivided attention of America's entire political and chattering classes. Case in point: our ongoing national fixation on debt and deficit. Down through...

Almost every single U.S. state has seen a significant growth in income inequality since the late 1970s, documents a new study from two leading Washington, D.C. think tanks. But states,...

Americans today can take more than inspiration from the struggles against plutocracy that progressives waged years ago. They can take a host of still relevant — and cutting-edge — policy...

Yes, the poor have struggled mightily while our rich have become phenomenally flush. But middle-income Americans haven't been able to jump off the treadmill either. We’ve all heard plenty of...

An eloquent new call for a more egalitarian global future. Humanity, the London advocacy group Share the World’s Resources notes in its new gameplan for a more equal international order,...

Take all that post-election commentary about foolish billionaires and wasted millions in political contributions with a grain of salt. Our billionaires don't have to actually win on Election Day to...

Anyone who's ever driven in urban America has had the experience of waiting in a long line of stopped traffic while some jerk who thought he was too important to...