Tag: inequality
Inequality kills. But we can stop the killing.
So argues a gripping new book from an activist physician who’s helped divine the keys to long and healthy life.
Wealthiest 10% responsible for nearly 50% of greenhouse gas emissions, study...
“[I]t appears that climate policies over the past decades have often targeted low-income and low-emitter groups disproportionately, while leaving high emitters relatively unaffected.”
Italy’s far right rode inequality to victory — but has no...
A let-the-rich-be government has opened the doors to the smiling heirs of Italy’s neofascist factions.
No more sacrifices
We have become all too used to the notion that success only comes with sacrifice, even if this is anything but the truth for the wealthiest and most powerful Americans.
What’s hiking the heat up so high this summer?
Economic inequality helps generate such wide temperature differentials.
Voters demand Biden take action to address ‘national crisis’ of rising...
"Biden must take it upon himself to use his executive authority in order to assist those who need it the most, or we will not only have a cost-of-housing crisis in this country, but a major homelessness crisis as well."
Turning people into corporations?!
The market is not the go-to solution to the major problems of our age.
This American for-profit healthcare system would just as soon kill you...
To this system, it doesn't matter whether a person lives or dies as long as it gets paid. That's why our healthcare costs are so high, even though our life expectancy is so low.
How Amazon, Starbucks, and other companies fight unions
Big corporations are fighting dirty to keep their workers from organizing – and they’re still losing. Imagine what could happen if they had to fight fair.
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Ultimate rightwing transgression: the mockery of politics as a preposterous joke
The Big Lie is "yoked to an older deception, without which it could not survive: the idea that American politics is a joke," attackable without consequences.
Tax the rich? We did that once
A little history might just inspire us to try that taxing again.
Does Elon Musk have a right to destroy Twitter?
Do we really think that the super-wealthy should be allowed to control so much wealth and wield so much influence?
Right-wing SCOTUS majority signals support for anti-LGBTQ+ reactionaries
"It does not bode well for the future of civil rights law that Gorsuch believes a state imposes 'reeducation training' on employers when it reminds them how to comply with nondiscrimination rules," said one court observer.
Puerto Rican cities sue fossil fuel companies in major class-action, climate fraud case
Municipalities aim to hold industry liable for damages from catastrophic 2017 hurricanes.