The greatest player ever, much like fans of the sport, was left with no good options.

The proposal would help close the racial wealth gap by giving every child in America up to $2,000 annually in a savings account.

Affluent Southern Californians are funding a massive effort to criminalize the unhoused and defeat their few remaining political allies.

We can debate its economic harm, but its political damage to progressive governance is indisputable.

The program is providing life-saving coverage to nearly a quarter of all Americans, but it’s not sustainable.

As higher education goes broke, expensive sports teams are a luxury that colleges can’t afford.

The only sure things in life are death and taxes. Joe Biden has a plan to bring them together to benefit all Americans.

The protagonist of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s most famous musical helped build the world in which his modern-day heroes are struggling to live.

Wages and job openings are up. Here’s why they won’t stay that way.

Rather than choose sides in this P.R. war of plutocrat divorcés, we should scrutinize whether billionaire philanthropy really works.

From the Black Death to Covid-19, deadly plagues have a tendency to raise hourly earnings—for the grisliest of reasons.

The post-Covid economic recovery looks anything but fair. Tax the titans of the pandemic!

Joe Biden’s plan to raise capital gains taxes isn’t just reasonable. It’s downright Reaganesque, my friend.

The president pledged to require businesses to make workplaces safe from the coronavirus on the campaign trail. Now he may not.

Silicon Valley’s exploitative entrepreneurial set has come to rescue the recently detached royals from a life outside the upper crust, to the detriment of the rest of us.

An underfunded and overworked IRS has enabled a handful of plutocratic tax cheats to live large at the expense of everyone else.

A moon shot model for the transformation of capitalism

A little-talked-about provision in the recently passed measure shines a new light on the often bungled efforts of the past to rein in runaway inequality.

Employers love so-called earned-wage access apps. Their employees, not so much.

Moving beyond the Moses Complex