Inequality

Benjamin Page says that the analysis he conducted with Martin Giles of public opinion surveys and elite policy preferences of the last 20 years shows economic elites virtually determine …

Bruce Dixon: The Supreme Court decision furthers institutional advantages of whites under the guise of colorblindness.

Rising inequality in the United States means the assumption by many American's that their country is the “best” is patently false.

Few mainstream commentators argue that the War on Poverty did not go far enough, or that the economic devastation of inner cities and the industrial heartland have structural economic …

Haitian activist Kettly Alexandre speaks to advances made over 40 years for women's rights, equity, and an end to violence.

As the US Supreme Court upholds a ban on affirmative action in Michigan and the country marks 60 years since Brown v. Board of Education, Democracy Now! interviews ProPublica's …

It's no secret by now that the recent spike in American inequality is driven in large part by “financialization,” the growing scale of the financial sector relative to the …

Raise the Capital Gains tax to 39 percent, where the earned income tax is. It's easy. Reagan actually did it - for one year.

Inequality is what has turned Washington into a protection racket for the 1 percent. It buys all those goodies from government: tax breaks, tax havens, loopholes, favors like carried …

If we want to counter the rise in inequality that we have seen in recent decades we are going to have to find mechanisms other than a "global wealth …