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To fix income inequality, we need more than UBI—we need Universal Basic Assets

Oct 16, 2017

Open a newspaper—or, more likely, click on a Facebook article on your phone—and there will be a story telling you that income inequality is at the root of America’s problems: 0.1% of the US population is worth almost as much as the bottom 90%; CEO-to-worker pay...

Everything, including the growing income disparity, can be explained by physics

Oct 16, 2017

Adrian Bejan is a rebel with a cause and a good job. He’s a cheerful and weird engineering professor at Duke University who wants us all to be free thinkers, to question convention and authority, and to connect the dots across topics. He himself has tried to do just...

Even in the nonprofit world, average Americans are getting squeezed out by the 1%

Dec 27, 2016

The majority of philanthropic giving has always primarily come from the rich, given that they have most of the money. As inequality has risen in the US over the last several decades, the share of charitable giving coming from the wealthy has grown, too, worrying some...

These CEOs make more than their companies pay in corporate taxes

Nov 20, 2014

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