Billionaires Won’t Save the World — Just Look at Elon Musk
The “playboy genius” is essentially squandering taxpayer money on pet projects like Mars trips and flamethrowers.
Black Panther Disembarks From The Roles Black Actors Have Traditionally Been Pigeonholed Into
The evolution of Black roles in film, from Mammy to T’Challa.
With Tillerson Out, Trump’s Bringing Foreign Policy Deeper Into the Dark Side
Trump, who started out his administration with radical outsiders, is now bringing in a new wave of competent extremists.
How Those Trump-Kim Talks Might Go: A Transcript
Trump’s “art of the deal” is about to get its most high-profile test yet. The early prognosis is not good.
Business Leaders Agree: Inequality Hurts The Bottom Line
A growing number of corporate leaders say it’s time for them to start sharing the wealth.
Teachers Deserve a Raise. Here’s How to Fund It.
Huge tax cuts for energy corporations have left state school budgets broke.
If We Want to Support Refugees, We Need To End the Wars That Create Them
The sanctuary movement needs an anti-war voice.
West Virginia’s Teachers Score a Win
The teacher’s strike holds a lesson for other states: slashing taxes is no excuse for underfunding education.
A Media Mogul’s Noble Challenge to Moguldom
The newspaper publishing giant E.W. Scripps would be deeply distressed to see what has become of his namesake company – and beloved country.
Del Monte’s Pay Ratio is Largest to Date at 1,465:1
Corporate disclosures show astoundingly significant gaps between CEO and median-worker pay among Fortune 500 firms.
Zimbabwe Open for Business, Code for International Finance Capitalism
Zimbabwe’s new president offered an open invitation to international capital investment and latecomers for Zimbabwe’s trek down the neoliberal development road.
How Gary Cohn and Andrew Mellon Both Failed America
Mellon’s failure greased the nation’s way into a decade of Great Depression. Will Cohn’s tax-cuts do the same?
The New, New Cold War
The Cold War has been around, in various permutations, for a long time. It will take patience, organizing, compromises, and some luck to bury it once and for all.
The Far-Right Effort to Win Hearts and Minds Across the Atlantic
Far more dangerous than the far-right effort to win elections alone is its concentrated campaign to change the culture – a strategy it owes, perversely, to the left.
8 Trailblazing Women Leading the Fight Against Inequality
In honor of International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting eight fearless women leading some of today’s biggest and most impactful social movements.
11 “Small” Banks That Would Benefit from Deregulation Bill Have Huge Pay Gaps of 146 to 1
Supporters of a Senate-approved deregulation bill claim it will provide relief for community banks. But, judging by the size of the beneficiaries’ CEO-worker pay ratios, they are hardly Mom & Pops.
One-Time Bonuses, Full-Time Con: Trump’s Tax Cuts Deliver Worker Layoffs
Corporate public relations teams extol bonuses to pump up the Republican re-election effort, but many people will end up unemployed.
Just How Unequal Are America’s Major Corporations?
Pay scales at major U.S. businesses are way out of whack — and that’s just at the ones we know about.
Getting Real About School Safety
Armed adults don’t make kids safer. They put them at greater risk.
How to Reduce Poverty and Inequality Through State Government Taxes
As the new federal tax law slashes IRS bills for corporations and the wealthy, the momentum is growing for progressive state-level taxes that could recoup some of these resources.
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