After pocketing billions in U.S. taxpayer support, the semiconductor giant is planning to spend AI windfalls to enrich ...

A 1982 SEC rule change has turbocharged America’s extreme wealth concentration, adding $55 billion to the wealth piles of ...

Private-equity magnate Jeffrey Leerink has been busy pillaging healthcare and the life sciences.

Executive compensation analyst Sarah Anderson testified before the Portland, Oregon city council about a proposed increase in ...

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders launched a Poor People’s Campaign in 1968 to tackle what he called the “Triplets of Evil” — systemic racism, poverty, and militarism.

The espresso machine in Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s personal office in Newport Beach, California, retails for $14,000—almost as much as the $14,674 annual wage of the coffee giant’s median worker, a ...

Americans across the political spectrum are rightly fed up with up with overpaid CEOs. But many also feel there’s nothing we can do about this problem. That’s where they’re wrong. People can use their ...

How can the U.S. reverse democracy-distorting concentrations of wealth and power? A federal annual wealth tax must be part of the equation. The richest 0.1 percent — the top one-thousandth of ...

This summer, as part of his broader effort to make New York’s cultural spectacles more accessible, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that the city would be making $100 tickets to the U.S. Open available ...

For years, the people organizing against extreme inequality have made a simple argument that the world’s institutions preferred not to hear: the gap between the very rich and everyone else is not an ...

Conventional wisdom claims that far-right voters are the least supportive of redistribution and the least likely to change their minds when faced with facts about inequality. But my recent study with ...

As the coronavirus pandemic swept America in 2020, a few industries managed not only to weather the economic shock but actually prosper. Food-delivery apps, exercise bikes, and streaming services all ...