When Corporations Take Credit for Green Deeds, Their Lobbying May Tell Another Story
Companies greenwash their records, drawing attention to their inconsequential initiatives instead of the environmental damage they cause.
Wealth Concentration
A Sweet New Century for America’s Most Privileged
America’s elected leaders haven’t ignored inequality since 2000. They’ve made it spectacularly worse.
Five Powerful Families
We’ve reached the point where a handful of extraordinarily wealthy clans essentially have the power to suffocate our democracy.
How Randomistas Can Help Fight Inequality
The smartest way to create meaningful social policy is with a healthy amount of skepticism.
Salvadorans Protest Renewed Attempts to Privatize Water Resources
Anti-privatization organizers demand the government recognize that water is a right, not a commodity.
Emmanuel Macron’s ‘Extreme Centrism’ Is a Threat to Democracy
Hiding behind appeals to ‘rationalism,’ the French leader seeks to ‘fix’ the French economy by cozying up to a tiny, binge-eating wealthy elite.
We Subsidize the Wrong Kind of Agriculture
We should be supporting the small farmers who sell at farmers markets, not the corporate giants that hurt our health and environment.
Jeff Bezos 1, Seattle Homeless 0. Now What?
Advocates are regrouping after city officials knuckled under to pressure from Amazon and repealed a tax on big employers.
New York, New York, What a Less than Wonderful Town
Any city — any society — that lets the rich keep as much as they can grab is asking for big-time trouble.