Wealth Concentration

A character-driven tale from Ohio illuminates how a corporate model fixated on funneling profits to wealthy investors laid the foundation for a Trump victory.  

Only in America, new stats show, could packing an incoming administration with gazillionaires be so easy.

A South Africa-based photographer uses aerial views to document the sharp divides between rich and poor in developing countries.

What does the Trump presidency mean for equality before the law? This blog focuses primarily upon issues of economic inequality, but a different type of equality — equality before the...

A proposed international agreement on trade in services would encourage further financial deregulation while undercutting labor and consumer protections. Originally published by Equal Times.  The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) is a...

America’s next secretary of commerce may be a private equity kingpin who owes his ample fortune to a career of manipulating the misfortune of America’s workers.

A bipartisan coalition’s victory on predatory lending in South Dakota offers inspiring lessons in a bleak time. On election day, 76 percent of South Dakota voters supported a ballot measure...

Learning the lessons from this year's progressive ballot initiative victories — and the first Gilded Age — will help us overcome our great divides.  Originally published in The Nation. Inequality...