Inequality

The excesses of capitalism are not simply a question of bad management and a political unwillingness to properly regulate it by imposing the right sort of checks and balances, …

In this excerpt from"Brazil's Dance With the Devil," Zirin describes the history of the poor Rio communities known as favelas, targets of a real-estate land grab.

Inequality changes who we are, individually and collectively.

In a country where rules are enforced or not enforced to benefit the rich and screw the middle class, you will have increasing inequality and a middle class that …

As President Obama prepares to speak to the needs of working women during the White House Summit on Working Families, a new report from public policy organization Demos highlights …

In one corner of America, we need lots more snooping.

Some of GenOpp's positions and statements may seem genuine, even logical, though a closer look reveals them to be desperately familiar to a more adult-like right wing playbook.

Religious and development groups urge reforms to protect the poor.

Apologists for our current economic order blame wage stagnation on technological change - or workers themselves.

Inequality deniers will pick up on the bad critique from the Financial Times, and it will become part of what they “know” to be true.