Kim Phillips-Fein

The study of poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why haven’t the lives of the poor improved?

How conservatives made him their icon and distorted his ideas

How many rich moderates would join the MAGA far right if redistribution policies threatened their wealth?

Do the financiers deserve the credit for Silicon Valley’s success?

How public interest groups inadvertently aided the right’s ascendency

The economist’s ideas are often reduced to stimulus spending. His life and work were much more radical than that.

Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?

What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right

The 200-year legal struggle that led to Citizens United and gave corporations the rights of people

How the president’s budget proposal grew out of New York’s financial crisis in the 1970s.

Today's stark inequality is a consequence of the city's crisis in the 1970s.

Reagan started it. Bush expanded it. Now conservatives are poised to privatize everything in sight.