Economy and Business
America’s Rich Refugee Crisis
The prospect of a 2 percent tax on wealth over $50 million has rich Americans considering expatriating.
Trump’s EPA Is a Huge Cancer Risk
Industry-friendly regulators are letting chemical companies flood the country with toxins. It should be a scandal.
Adult in the Room
Greta Thunberg teaches Davos a lesson.
Rich and Clueless? Buy a $500,000 Armored Car
If you’ve got more money than you can spend, you can spend your extra wealth on… guarding your extra wealth.
‘Little Women’ and the American Attitude Toward Poverty
We’ve advanced beyond Little Women’s 19th century gender roles. Let’s get past its outdated moralizing about poverty, too.
The Court Ruling That Sold Our Democracy
Ten years after Citizens United, the damage is broad and deep — but we can still fix it.
How Do Billionaires Make Money? By Having Money Already
The world’s billionaires don’t grow their bank accounts with hard work. Their money does the work for them.
Why Do We Have School Lunch Debt at All?
We live in a nation where food is plentiful but millions of children experience hunger and food insecurity.
Learning from King’s Last Campaign
Before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr. joined a campaign to unify working people of all races. Today, nothing could be more powerful.
Congress: War Profiteering Is Real. We Need to End It.
Surging stock prices for military contractors gave several CEOs an early payday after Trump’s Iran aggression.
