How Inequality Hurts
A Ghost from a Ghastly Public Policy Past
House budget-cutters are taking their inspiration from the greatest giveaway — to the rich — artist the nation’s capital has ever known.
A Game-Day ‘Program’ for the NFL Lockout
To have any shot at comprehending the unfolding pro football lockout story, we need to first understand the mindset — and the mega millions — of our contemporary sports world’s ever-grasping owners. A review of Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love by Dave Zirin.
A Do-It-Yourself Kit for Probing Plutocracy
The rich, many Americans have come to believe, rule. But how? The current hubbub over the federal budget deficit opens a welcome window to understanding just how our rich keep riding so high.
Another Reason for the Right to Hate Science
Conservatives expected human genome research to help prove that nature, not unequal social orders, determines who ends up sick and poor. But our genes have refused to cooperate.
Boom Times for Parchment Profiteers
The tax dollars we spend on higher ed ought to have one purpose and one purpose alone: to educate students. So why do we let these tax dollars mint mega millionaires?
Should Vanity Candidacies Have Us Worried?
A new study says super-rich candidates who personally bankroll their own campaigns almost always lose. But that, unfortunately, doesn’t make the rest of us winners.
Move Over, Climate Change Deniers
Make room for a new right-wing assault on scientific research. In the cross-hairs this time: the massive epidemiological evidence on inequality’s horrific toll on our health and overall well-being.
Why Bad Things Happen to Unequal People
\Just in: new data on our staggering income gap. Just emerging: a better understanding why such gaps make economic calamities inevitable.
Guard Labor: Inequality’s Hidden Price Tag
What happens to societies that don’t share the wealth? They spend — and waste — a fortune guarding it.
‘Zero Tolerance’ on Workplace Slaughter?
Windfall rewards give CEOs an incentive to put worker lives at risk. To see all workers safe, our most recent mining tragedy reminds us, maybe we need to end those windfalls.
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