The Koch Brothers Cue the Music

A slick new ad campaign from America’s most notorious billionaires is tugging at our heartstrings — and distorting the debate over inequality.

An Inequality Double-Whammy

From new research on the Great Recession, still more evidence that maldistributions of income and wealth really matter

Shareholders as Super Heroes?

Let’s stop waiting for corporate insiders to fix our growing executive pay mess. Say on pay isn’t fixing anything.

Policymakers, Listen to Your Hired Help

Our global economy will never become more productive, the developed world’s official research agency suggests, if we continue to let wealth concentrate.

Can the Greedy Be Truly Generous?

Our hedge funds are celebrating another year of super earnings — with more crumbs for the victims of the political choices that have made hedgies so rich.

Did the Beatles Help Spark the Reagan Revolution?

On this month’s 50th anniversary of one of the edgiest Beatles tracks, our rich have a reason to look back fondly on the lads from Liverpool.

Quote of the Week

“It is not true that Mexicans are to fault for the problems of the United States. There are other causes. For instance, the great inequality in the United States.”
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, president of Morena, Mexico’s new leading opposition party, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., March 15, 2017

A Rougher Road for Redistribution

Progress in the struggle against inequality seems to have stalled in the deeply divided societies of Latin America. What next? Tulane economist Nora Lustig has an insightful perspective.

By the Numbers

Do We Need a Billionaire Class?

With worker-owned co-ops and other forms of democratic enterprise, historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz is helping America see, we can create wealth without creating a super wealthy.