Bad news for trust-fund brats and credit card companies is good news for everyone else.

What do Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein, Clarence Thomas, and Kendall Roy all have in common? Toxic travel habits!

What’s one thing wealthy people of all nationalities have in common? Far higher emissions than the poorer people in their country.

With the city at a political crossroads and the unhoused foremost on the minds of voters, Measure ULA could be a game changer—if it passes.

Unhoused Angelenos have become a political football just as pandemic-era programs that offered effective interventions are set to expire.

Eight years ago, I didn’t believe America was becoming a wealth aristocracy. Now I’m not so sure.

Affluent Southern Californians are funding a massive effort to criminalize the unhoused and defeat their few remaining political allies.

In an unequal economy, even some of the winners are unhappy.

Inside the world of sweepers—committed competitors trying to game the system or maybe just win a lifetime supply of Gatorade.

The man behind the world’s largest Ponzi scheme died at 82; the system that enabled his grift continues in his image.

The private equity billionaire, pressured into retirement this week, gave $158 million to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Why doesn’t it matter more?

In the face of a nonexistent safety net and bleak future prospects, the F.I.R.E movement and other individualized paths to financial mastery offer a specific brand of fantasy.

The wealthy have made peace with the election! Bankers are practicing positive thinking! The stock market is a living thing, and it is happy!

Poverty numbers leave out far too many who are struggling economically. Shouldn’t we reach for more than whatever rests just above abject misery?

For warehouse workers, Amazon’s brutal workload has always been dangerous. Covid makes it that much worse.

It’s easy to forgo a mask when you know your wealth probably insulates you from the worst effects of the pandemic.

The mere prospect of a Democratic president nominally meddling with their plunder has generated anxiety among the wealthy. Poor things.

“The Cosby Show,” “#blackAF,” and the misleading fixation on the “racial wealth gap”

They’re floating castles of crime, polluting our air and water.

Many wealthy Americans insist they aren’t rich, and that has profound implications in electoral politics as well as economic policy.