How Inequality Hurts
Look Out, Here Comes the ‘Feral Underclass’
What made last week’s rioting in London all the more ‘achingly sad’? The rioters weren’t challenging greed. They were celebrating it. We really need to understand why.
Endless Political Paralysis: The New Normal?
The American political system isn’t working for average Americans any more. Don’t blame the Tea Party, new political science research suggests. Blame inequality.
Madison Ave. Declares ‘Mass Affluence’ Over
The American middle class, concludes a new study from the ad industry’s top trade journal, has essentially become irrelevant. In a deeply unequal America, if you don’t make $200,000, you don’t matter.
How Did We Ever Get Higher Ed Backwards?
Back in the mid 20th century, colleges and universities helped America beat down economic inequality. Now they reinforce it.
Our Chronic Cronyism — and Corruption
America’s top bankers and CEOs don’t have any more talent than millions of other Americans. They do have, two timely new data dumps remind us, plenty of generous friends in pivotal places. Read more . . .
The Hazards in Our Fairytale Marketplace
A consumer alert for soccer moms and doting granddads: Outrageous compensation rewards give corporate executives an incentive to behave outrageously — at your expense! The story behind the sad demise of a beloved camera.
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.
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