On Tuesday, as the stock market soared to a record, Chuck Collins was watching the billionaires cross a depressing threshold: $1 trillion. That is the amount of new wealth American billionaires have amassed since March, at the start of the devastating lockdowns that...
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. struck a notably different tone than some other Democrats on Monday over how to bring about change in government, defending his approach to working with Republicans during an appearance at a forum where he and...
Marcus Raskin, who channeled his discontent as a young aide in the Kennedy administration into helping to found the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank that became an abundant source of research about nuclear disarmament, the Vietnam War, economic...
The political news cycle is fast, and keeping up can be overwhelming. Trying to find differing perspectives worth your time is even harder. That’s why we have scoured the internet for political writing from the right and left that you might not have seen. Has this...
Monkeys were taught in an experiment to hand over pebbles in exchange for cucumber slices. They were happy with this deal. Then the researcher randomly offered one monkey — in sight of a second — an even better deal: a grape for a pebble. Monkeys love grapes, so this...
Glenn Kellow, the coal executive who led Peabody Energy through bankruptcy, just collected an estimated $15 million stock bonus. John Eaves at Arch Coal, another recently bankrupt coal giant, got an award valued at $10 million. The view from the coal pits is far less...
Roger Wilkins, who championed civil rights for black Americans for five decades as an official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, a foundation executive, a journalist, an author and a university professor, died on Sunday in Kensington, Md. He was 85. His...
The government of El Salvador won a long-running legal battle on Friday when an international arbitration panel ruled that it did not have to pay compensation to a mining company that was denied a concession to drill for gold. The case had been watched by antimining...
The financial crisis of 2008 and its painful aftermath wiped out jobs, incomes, savings, home equity and economic opportunity throughout the country. But it did not wipe out rich paydays on Wall Street. The average bonus on Wall Street last year was $146,200,...
In “America’s Stacked Deck” (column, Feb. 18), Nicholas Kristof identifies the central question facing voters in this election cycle: Should we come together to find solutions to our economic hardships, or should we find scapegoats to blame for our current woes? Mr....
Novak tops the list of Fortune 500 CEOs with the largest retirement nest eggs, according to a study from two progressive think tanks – the Center for Effective Government and the Institute for Policy Studies.
