Christina Groeger: How Education Embedded Inequality
Historian of education Christina Groeger writes that Americans have long believed that education is the key to equality, but she thinks that this faith is...
Category : Inequality
McKenzie Scott: A Good Billionaire?
McKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos. She was at his side when he founded Amazon and was the company’s first accountant. She played...
Farhad Manjoo: The Pandemic Brings Good Times to Billionaires
Farhad Manjoo is an opinion writer for the New York Times. In this column, he says that the wealth of American billionaires has grown dramatically...
How Our Tax Systems Favors the 1% and Cuts Their Taxes
Nathan Bomey explained the tax avoidance strategies of the super-rich in an article in USA Today. Tax evasion is illegal but tax avoidance is not....
Jan Resseger: “Let Them Eat Tweets”
Jan Resseger reviews here a new book that explains the full-blown triumph of plutocracy. Trump is the culmination, not the cause. Wealth and power are...
TIME: The Top 1% Have Taken $50 Trillion from the Bottom 90%
This may be the most important article you read this year. The pandemic has exacerbated the huge inequality gaps that existed before the virus struck....
David Dayen: How Little Can the GOP Do for Working People?
David Dayen writes a daily update on the pandemic crisis for the American Prospect. It is called “Unsanitized.” I highly recommend it. In this post,...
G.F. Brandenburg: The Looting of America
In recent days, the public learned that Jeff Bezos’ net worth has soared to more than $170 billion. Bill Gates trails Bezos at “only” $114...
Andre Perry: Defund Private Schools. They Perpetuate Racism
Tomorrow night, Andre Perry and I will talk about his new book Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Lives in...
Racism, Police Brutality, and Our Future
For those of us old enough to remember the protests against racism and police brutality in the late 1960s, the outrage of African Americans has...