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Want to Cut Spending, Republicans? Liberals Have Some Ideas for That.

Feb 2, 2023

Fidelity Charitable: New grants to surpass deposits in 2022

Nov 29, 2022

John Feffer quoted in The Washington Post: “How Seoul failed its most vulnerable, flooded in their basement homes”

Aug 12, 2022

An op-ed by John Feffer from 2021 on climate change and South Korea that first appeared in Hankyoreh was quoted in The Washington Post.

As Biden visits Middle East, GAO questions U.S. complicity in Yemeni deaths

Jul 8, 2022

What Progressives Get Wrong About the Gilded Age

Feb 28, 2022

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Tax billionaires’ pandemic profits

Aug 24, 2021

As Democrats begin the push to invest $3.5 trillion to combat climate change, expand Medicare, ensure child care for working families and more, the age-old question is being repeated in Congress and the media: How are you going to pay for that? … Read the full...

Bernie Sanders pushes new tax targeting large companies where CEOs earn far more than workers

Sep 30, 2019

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) unveiled a plan on Monday that would dramatically increase taxes on corporations that pay their CEOs far more than their workers, adding to the growing suite of policy proposals to expand taxes in the Democratic presidential race. Under...

The 10 books to read in August

Jun 30, 2019

August is traditionally a “dead month” in publishing, a time when every agent, editor and production director takes vacation, filling East Coast beaches with tote bags of unread manuscripts and galleys. … Read the full article at The Washington...

Joe Biden’s claim that ‘almost half’ of Americans live in poverty

Jun 20, 2019

What does it mean to be poor? Biden took an expansive view at a presidential candidate forum hosted by anti-poverty advocates. The Census Bureau calculates the poverty rate in different ways. Using the official poverty measure, 12.3 percent of U.S. residents were...

This Black History Month, don’t pretend racism has disappeared from the church

Feb 1, 2019

Racism has been pretty easy to spot for most people. It felt like the sting of a lash on an enslaved person’s back and smelled like the charred flesh of a public lynching. Since those forms of racial oppression have become frowned upon, so the thinking goes, then we...

Plutocratic politics and the age of gilded giving

Nov 30, 2018

Our era of gaping inequality may be a foe to civic concord, but it is a friend to private philanthropy. Every passing month seems to bring an announcement about a new mega-donation — Michael Bloomberg’s $1.8 billion gift to Johns Hopkins University being just the most...

The problem with Michael Bloomberg’s massive donation to Johns Hopkins University

Nov 20, 2018

While in his final year as mayor of New York City, Michael R. Bloomberg referred to calls to raise taxes on the city’s highest earners “about as dumb a policy as I can think of,” and dinged universal pre-kindergarten — something successor Bill de Blasio made a reality...

Progressives must seize their momentum to articulate a saner foreign policy

Sep 25, 2018

Insurgent progressives have scored remarkable victories in primaries up and down the ballot and are winning the domestic “ideas primary.” As Barack Obama recently acknowledged, bold reform ideas — from Medicare for All to tuition-free college to a $15 minimum wage —...

Elite CEO Pay Jumps to Average of $19 Million, As Fears Mount Over the Wealthy Pocketing Gains

Aug 16, 2018

Top executives of America’s biggest companies saw their average annual pay surge to $18.9 million in 2017, according to a report released Thursday, fueling concerns about the gulf between the nation’s richest and everyone else. The dramatic 18 percent jump in chief...

Wall Street’s Average Bonus in 2017? Three Times What Most U.S. Households made all year

Apr 9, 2018

Wall Street bonuses are climbing toward record highs again, according to government data released Monday showing that in 2017, the average bonus payout reached $184,220. That is a 17 percent increase compared to the previous year and the closest Wall Street has come...