| Sep 26, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors PicksIt took 100 years, but America has returned to its unequal past. With a vengeance. The year many consider the height of the Gilded Age, when John D. Rockefeller’s wealth was at its peak, was exactly a century ago, in 1918. By that time, Rockefeller had amassed about...
| Sep 12, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe rich are hiding trillions in wealth. You’ve probably heard about their offshore bank accounts, shell corporations, and fancy trusts. But this wealth isn’t all sitting in the Cayman Islands or Panama. Much of it’s hiding in plain view: maybe even in...
| Aug 29, 2018 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyAmerica’s political history has been written in the fierce narrative of war. Not our country’s many military clashes with foreign nations, but our own unending war for democracy in the United States. Generation after generation of moneyed elites have persisted in...
| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyAs a sociology professor in community college, I have my students play Monopoly. Only, I give them a special, rigged version. There are five players. The wealthiest begins with $5,500, all of the railroads, and the two most valuable properties (Boardwalk and Park...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPoliticians often gab about the “private sector” and the “public sector,” as if these two categories of economic activity operated as two completely separate worlds. In reality, these two sectors have always been deeply intertwined. How deeply?...