Our Post-Trump Democratic Prospects: What the Ming Dynasty Can Tell Us
‘Good government’ has always rested on equitable distributions of wealth and power.
Wealth Concentration
In 2021, Let’s Ring a Global Alarm — on Inequality — that Everyone Can Hear
Our task ahead: preventing a deeply unequal world from recreating pre-pandemic business as usual.
The Covid Deal is a Welcome Stopgap. Congressional Progressives Aim for Much More in 2021.
The Progressive Caucus has unveiled a legislative agenda designed to meet the scale of the pandemic catastrophe and reduce our vulnerability to future crises.
MacKenzie Scott’s Bold and Direct Giving Puts Shame to the Billionaire Class and their Perpetual Private Foundations
The billionaire philanthropist continues to defy the charitable norms of the 1 percent.
Celebrating the Passage of the Corporate Transparency Act
This week, Congress takes a meaningful step toward eliminating anonymous shell corporations.
Our Youngest ‘Self-Made’ Billionaire, Our Wealthy’s Oldest Bogus Claim
The super rich owe their super fortunes to factors that have little to do with ‘genius.’
Sixteen Years Later, a Helicopter Returns to the Site of the ‘World’s Most Famous Photograph of Inequality’
As we recreated his legendary aerial shot of Sao Paulo, I connected with Brazilian photographer Tuca Vieira around our shared passion for creating provocative images of spatial inequality.
Two Happy Troublemakers on What It Will Take to Reverse Global Inequality
Fight Inequality Alliance co-founder Ben Phillips and tax haven muckraker Nick Shaxson discuss the need to confront power if we are to make real change.
We Need an Essential Workers Bill of Rights
Walmart’s owners are seeing their wealth surge while my former coworkers there go without hazard pay. That has to change.