| Oct 10, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors PicksThe federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in nearly 10 years. Yet with a stroke of his pen, Jeff Bezos of Amazon raised the wages of hundreds of thousands of the company’s lowest paid workers. In an age of extreme income inequality, this is leap in the right...
| | Rights / DemocracyAfter Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed, my Facebook feed filled up with people telling one another to vote in the midterms. “If you don’t like what’s happening in America, vote!” they said. And yes, I’ll vote. I always vote. As a believer in...
| 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...
