Wealth Concentration

We’ve reached the point where a handful of extraordinarily wealthy clans essentially have the power to suffocate our democracy.

Advocates are regrouping after city officials knuckled under to pressure from Amazon and repealed a tax on big employers.

Any city — any society — that lets the rich keep as much as they can grab is asking for big-time trouble.

Some rich people fly first class to fancy hotels. Others fly private jets to private islands.