Truthout
Inequality
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Inside Our Profoundly Unequal “New Normal“
Wealth's current tilt to the top sometimes seems almost eternal. But can our economy "self-correct"? A provocative new paper out of the developed world's official research agency contemplates our …
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Anti-Politics and the 1%
Anti-politics rejects the electoral-representative institutions of contemporary democracies. There are two opposite forms of anti-politics, one striving toward a technocracy controlled by oligarchies and corporations, and one striving toward …
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Worth More: One Man or an Entire City?
What does it say about our society when one hedge fund manager makes a bigger income than the whole population of Springfield, Ohio or Burbank, California?
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Open Letter to President Obama
My name is Jose Angel N., and I am an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.
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Finance in the United States: Promoting Inequality and Waste
The bloated financial sector in the United States is a major engine of inequality sucking money away from poor and middle income households.
Why Are Campus Administrators Making So Much Money?
College and university administrators, unlike their faculty and students, are thriving.
How’s He Doin’? Bill de Blasio After Six Months
Six months after the widely hailed mayoral election of the liberal Bill de Blasio, Danny Katch looks at what has changed - and not changed - from Michael Bloomberg's …
Crowdsourcing Our Way Out of the Crisis of Democracy
Democracy rebellion rolls across the United States as Americans are repeatedly shown how anti-democratic the government really is.
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No One Expects a Monty Python Fourth of July
The US and the UK may yet be an ocean apart and separated by a common language but we share a bond of vast wealth at the very top …
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An Exceptional Decline for the Exceptional Country?
The empire as basket case.