A pattern that began almost half a century ago is about to play out in the Pacific Palisades. Big houses will get bigger, the total number of units will shrink, and the housing crisis and climate crisis will continue to cause chaos.

Five years since the pandemic began, the ravages it exposed persist.

The wealthy will ride out the crisis on private islands—or so the story goes. Instead, they’re sticking around, distorting housing and insurance markets.

Pop culture serves up a timely yuletide lesson about the inescapable connection between poverty and suicide. We need to start heeding it all year round.

Kamala Harris’s worst campaign surrogate has worn out his welcome.

People will be left behind as Florida evacuates for Hurricane Milton. Will their deaths count as “accidents”?

How the explosion of great wealth at the top has directly pushed the collapse of the American middle class and the weakening of American democracy.

Beware of theories about human nature based on the study of our earliest ancestors.

The Pelican State joins Texas and Florida in a race to the bottom to see who can stick it to workers the worst.

Since 2020, Joe Biden’s support among working-class voters of all races has fallen alarmingly. Here are seven ways he and his party can reverse the slide.

This tax season is a big test for a slew of newly created child tax credits in places like Minnesota and Oregon.

Half of all renters pay more than they can afford, and “Build, baby, build” doesn’t seem to be helping.

Congress approved the construction of the Yazoo Pumps more than 80 years ago. They might finally be built—and disproportionately benefit white landowners.

Branko Milanovic and Guido Alfani study inequality over the course of human history. The results are not good.

Samuel W. Franklin’s latest book explains how we sold ourselves out to a fake virtue.

A new study describes in grotesque detail the extent to which the ultrarich have perverted the charitable giving industry.

Efforts to curb climate change are failing. That’s partly due to the staggering contributions of the global elite.

The pandemic opened the door to the potential of eliminating childcare expenses. Now it’s time to take the next step.

The left and labor haven’t always seen eye to eye—but they may be on the verge of a fruitful reunion.

The archaic practice is standing in the way of across-the-board reforms that are necessary to end the exploitation of the industry’s workforce.