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Economic Inequality
March 4, 2020
J.C. Pan
Facing a Pandemic in the New Gilded Age
While the rich seek concierge care, workers without paid time off and insurance are left with few options but to punch in and hope for the best.
February 19, 2020
Nick Martin
The Pipeline Crisis Was Centuries in the Making
How the intergenerational lock of poverty leaves so many Indigenous communities with few options but to sign on the dotted line.
February 18, 2020
Magazine
Adolph Reed Jr.
Bookerism and the Black Elite
Managing race relations from above
January 13, 2020
J.C. Pan
Toward a Working-Class Anti-War Movement
Can we avoid the pitfalls of 2003 to build a broadly popular anti-war movement?
January 7, 2020
Magazine
J.C. Pan
Why Diversity Training Isn’t Enough
Addressing inequality requires more than consciousness raising.
May 30, 2019
Lizzie O'Shea
Digital Privacy Is a Class Issue
As corporations mine data and monetize the web, the divide between rich and poor on the Internet grows wider.
May 20, 2019
Magazine
Robert Westbrook
Socialism and the Democracy Deficit
The quest for radical equality in the American grain
September 27, 2018
Magazine
Lee Drutman
Why Won’t Democrats Move Left in the Suburbs?
They could win with more progressive candidates, but the leadership insists on cautious moderation.
August 3, 2017
Rachel M. Cohen
This Is the Wrong Way to Fight Inequality
A new book proposes Americans should compete against each other for wellbeing—so long as it's a "fair" contest.
September 24, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
Highlights From Pope Francis's Address to Congress
September 6, 2013
Edward Glaeser
Even Bill de Blasio Won't Be Able to Fix Income Inequality
As mayor, he'd be battling the one percent—and history
September 11, 1915
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Walter E. Weyl
Illusory Wealth
Much of the new wealth which we believe has come to us is quite illusory.
January 23, 1915
Magazine
Walter E. Weyl
Equality
Political equality is a farce and a peril unless there is at least some measure of economic equality.
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