U.S. Billionaire Wealth Skyrocketed 55 Percent During Pandemic, Accelerating Inequality
Pandemic inequalities may explain the popularity of proposals to restore progressive income and wealth taxes on the very wealthy.
While Professing BLM Support, Wall Street Banks Reject Racial Equity Audits
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is urging shareholders to vote against a proposed review of the impact of bank policies and practices on racial inequality.
Understanding Israel’s Latest Attack on Gaza — and Who Benefits
Netanyahu’s political troubles — and an arms industry eager to battle test new wares on Gazans — may help explain the latest escalation of violence.
Can We Get a Vaccine for the Greed Pandemic?
The avarice virus escaped decades ago from corporate boardrooms. We can beat it.
Corporations Should Not Have the Power to Undermine the Global Battle Against COVID-19
Even if governments agree to suspend patent protections for vaccines, corporations can fight back with expensive lawsuits.
The Pentagon Increase Is the Size of the Entire CDC Budget
One of the most confounding decisions in the president’s budget request was the decision to increase the Pentagon and war budgets.
What’s up With the Herd?
The United States won’t achieve herd immunity because a significant portion of the herd is suffering from mad cow disease.
Employers: If You Want Workers, Pay a Living Wage
It’s not that people don’t want to work — it’s that they don’t want to work for so little.
The Right Wing Has Always Been Pro-‘Cancel Culture’
From brutalizing protestors to rolling back voting rights, don’t get it confused: The right has always tried to “cancel” the views it despises.
How Corporations Pumped Up CEO Pay While Their Low-Wage Workers Suffered in the Pandemic
More than half of the country’s 100 largest low-wage employers rigged pay rules in 2020 to give CEOs 29 percent average raises while their frontline employees made 2 percent less.
New Report: Executive Excess 2021
Low-Wage Workers Lost Hours, Jobs, and Lives. Their Employers Bent the Rules — To Pump up CEO Paychecks.
Executive Excess 2021
Low-Wage Workers Lost Hours, Jobs, and Lives. Their Employers Bent the Rules — To Pump up CEO Paychecks.
The Latest From Jerusalem and Kabul
Phyllis Bennis discusses the latest developments in Jerusalem and Gaza, and the explosion at a girl’s school in Kabul, Afghanistan.
House Dems Push Postal Banking Pilots as an Alternative to Predatory Firms
Thirty-three members have asked for federal budget funding to test out expanded postal financial services in 10 rural and urban communities.
The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
In a battle to protect their rivers and waterways, the people of El Salvador came together to ban mineral mining.