Newsletter Archive
October 14 Too Much: Worse than Watergate? Really?
If the Supreme Court chooses to erase our remaining post-Watergate campaign finance reforms, Richard Nixon’s scandalous reign may come to seem — thanks to growing inequality — mere kid’s play.
October 7 Too Much: After the Shutdown, Maybe a Little Equality?
Executives at private companies with federal contracts are getting rich off our tax dollars — at the expense of their low-wage workers. But we can turn the tables. Here’s how.
September 30 Too Much: The year persistence edged plutocracy
Exactly a hundred years ago, decades of progressive struggle finally paid off and outfitted America with a tool for braking the unlimited accumulation of grand private fortune.
September 23 Too Much: Federal Regulators Finally ‘Mind the Gap’
The long-delayed SEC disclosure rule on CEO-worker pay turns out to be surprisingly strong. The reaction from power-suits? More bombast.
September 16 Too Much: The Latest Stats on Our Top 1 Percent
The exceedingly comfortable who sit in America’s richest 1 percent have nearly fully regained the outsized share of the nation’s income they held just before the economy cratered five years ago.
September 9 Too Much: Remember When People Had Pensions?
America’s corporate chiefs deserve all their hefty rewards, we’re told, because they take hefty risks. And what exactly are these richly rewarded corporate chiefs putting at risk? Our retirement security.
September 2 Too Much: The Narcissist Next Door
Over the last 20 years, the annual lists of America’s highest-paid chief execs — our corporate ‘best and brightest’ — have included an amazingly high concentration of outright frauds and flops.
August 26 Too Much: Racketeering Then and Now
Back in Al Capone’s day, Prohibition helped give rise to a rash of epic crime-boss fortunes. In our day, deregulation has spawned on Wall Street an entire new generation of fabulously rich racketeers.
August 19 Too Much: Why Can’t Democracy Trump Inequality?
Voters of modest means outnumber voters of excessive means in every election. Yet public policy in America essentially comforts only the already comfortable. Four political scientists have an explanation.
August 12 Too Much: A Bezillionaire ‘Free Press’?
A ruthless billionaire has grabbed one of the world’s great newspapers. But you don’t have to be a high-tech plutocrat, the paper’s previous regime has demonstrated, to help make our world more unequal.
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