| Nov 13, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyBill Gates wants you to know he pays taxes. “I’ve paid more than $10 billion in taxes. I’ve paid more than anyone in taxes,” Gates told journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin. “But when you say I should pay $100 billion, OK, then I’m starting to do a little math about what I...
| Oct 23, 2019 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyJesse Jackson ran a strong populist campaign for president in 1988, advocating bold new policies and programs to address inequality. This prompted establishment skeptics to scoff, “Where ‘ya gonna get the money?” Jackson answered directly: We’ll “get it from where it...
| May 1, 2019 | Economy / Business|Rights / Democracy“Socialism,” snarled Donald Trump at a recent pep rally of far-right Republicans. The obedient crowd of Trumpistas snarled back in unison: So-sh’ll-izz-ummm! There you have the entire intellectual content of the GOP’s 2020 re-election strategy under...
| Apr 3, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe U.S. is suffering from excessive wealth disorder. This isn’t your parents’ inequality influenza, but a more virulent strain of extreme disparities of income, wealth, and opportunity. Just 400 billionaires have as much wealth as nearly two-thirds of American...
