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May 12, 2017
Lovia Gyarkye
Have the Rich Become “Super Citizens”?
David Callahan's new book "The Givers: Money, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age" looks at wealth, charity, and how the superrich shape public policy to their own ends.
February 6, 2017
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
The Anti-Trump Left Is Now the Only Hope for Moderates
Conservative and liberal values alike are threatened without the safeguards the left demands.
December 20, 2016
Vincent Bevins
To Understand 2016’s Politics, Look at the Winners and Losers of Globalization
An interview with economist Branko Milanovic.
August 1, 2016
Patrick Iber
Brazil’s Billionaire Problem
To understand global inequality, you have to understand Brazil's inequality.
March 14, 2016
Alan Auerbach
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Laurence J. Kotlikoff
We’ve Been Measuring Inequality Wrong
Here's the real story.
January 18, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Why does Bernie always come back to economics?
December 29, 2015
Laura Marsh
For the ultra wealthy, the tax code is a choose-your-own-adventure that saves them hundreds of millions.
December 3, 2015
Theodore R. Johnson
How to Fight Economic Inequality With Smartphones
For minority communities hampered by a lack of financial services, there might be an app for that.
October 14, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Democratic Debate Highlighted the Biggest Divide Between Sanders and Clinton
June 29, 2015
David Dayen
The Housing Recovery Has Skipped Poor and Minority Neighborhoods
After the Supreme Court's fair-housing ruling, will the government finally do something about it?
June 11, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
How Much More Money Would You Make If You Were Unionized?
May 18, 2015
Allison J. Pugh
Class Matters
What job insecurity does to our kids
May 6, 2015
Barrett Swanson
'Survivor' Is a Damning Illustration of America’s Distorted Class Politics
April 7, 2015
Danny Vinik
Is It Inequality or Mobility? Neither Economists nor GOP Candidates Can Decide.
March 26, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Luxury Brands Are Status Symbols Only If You Can’t Afford Them
Why rich people are embracing minimalism, and the rest of us are Googling "Ralph Lauren"
March 11, 2015
Reuben Thomas Finighan
Income, Not Culture, Is What Divides America Now
February 19, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Death of American Unions Is Killing American Marriage
January 27, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Wealth Doesn't Make the Rich Happier, But Poverty Makes the Poor Sadder
January 27, 2015
Brian Beutler
Republicans Are Making the Same Mistakes Today That Democrats Made Last Decade
December 17, 2014
Ryan Kearney
People Who Worry the U.S. Will “Spoil” Cuba Are Fetishizing Poverty
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