Mouthy Moguls: Our Latest Disappearing Species
What do America’s billionaires feel about the burning issues of the day? They’d rather not say — in public.
What do America’s billionaires feel about the burning issues of the day? They’d rather not say — in public.
Three US families have a combined wealth of $348.7bn. As their generations expand, we are are drifting toward a society governed by the rich.
Now just three families own a combined fortune of $348.7 billion, which is four million times the median wealth of a U.S. family
From ballot initiatives to anti-inequality candidates, the 2018 election offers plenty of opportunities to chip away at our economic divide.
How much does the ‘privilege’ of living in a deeply unequal nation cost ordinary Americans? Some numbers from Belgium can help us tally up the total.
Paul Allen’s friends are saluting his life. For the sake of our own loved ones, we need to end his billionaire epoch.
They coarsen our culture, erode our economic future, and diminish our democracy. The ultra-rich have no redeeming social value.
The artist behind a provocative faux sales office highlights the dangers of Boston’s luxury housing boom.
Amazon’s wage hike is welcome news, but nobody’s well-being should depend on the whims of billionaire CEOs.
Redistribution via the tax code, progressives on both sides of the Atlantic are realizing, only takes us so far. We need to start limiting inequality before it can dig in.
Secretly owned — and often uninhabited — luxury condos are driving up rents for all Bostonians. What can the city do?
From country farmland to big city skyscrapers, absentee billionaires may be hiding wealth in your town — and driving up your cost of living.
We know a great deal more about how unequal we’ve become than our progressive forbears did in America’s original Gilded Age. But can data fuel a fight for a more equal world?
Donor-Advised Charity Funds Sequestering Billions in the Face of Growing Inequality
We’ve reached the point where a handful of extraordinarily wealthy clans essentially have the power to suffocate our democracy.