Friday, July 11, 2025

Tag: inequality

Inequality is set to kill millions—’We have to fight it together.’

If we take on the inequalities which hold back progress, we can deliver on the promise to end AIDS by 2030.

A project for survival in these United States

What this country might look like if its politics were so much less top-down and so much more bottom-up.

Can we automate inequality out of automation?

What explains the sinking incomes of so many American workers today: automation.

Forget the huddled masses. Bring us billionaires.

The land of the free and the home of the brave has become a tax haven for the vile and the vicious.

Where’s the ‘justice vaccine’ against the pandemic of system-smashing scofflaws?

Why have no apt penalties for sedition or treason yet been applied to insurrection-inciters or enabling officials?

How to ensure global debates about inequality are informed by views...

In the last decade inequality has been placed at the centre of the agenda for global social and economic policy. This has...

The climate stat we can’t afford to overlook: CEO pay

“The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less.”

What happens economically when wealth tilts to the top?

Trickle-down is trickling away.

An inequality even conservative justices can’t swallow

A unanimous Supreme Court throws a monkey-wrench into a college sports scene that’s minting mega millionaires.

Report: Silver Spoon Oligarchs: How America’s 50 largest inherited-wealth dynasties accelerate...

Fifty dynastic billionaire families hold as much wealth as the bottom half of U.S. families. Their wealth grew at ten times the rate of ordinary families over the last 40 years.

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Noem calls to eliminate FEMA after delaying Texas flood response by days

FEMA officials say Kristi Noem’s own approval policy caused life-threatening delays before she used them to justify dismantling the agency.

Millions of tons of invisible nanoplastics found polluting North Atlantic Ocean

New research finds an estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic, raising concerns for marine ecosystems and human health.

Albanese sanctions: Marco Rubio now acting just like Putin, charging human rights officials

An explanation of why this verbiage is arrant nonsense.

Five facts that show the enormity of American inequality

Whatever wealth exists among America's poor should not be taken away because of some ignorant prejudice of the rich.

No ordinary solidarity—inside Chicago’s hunger strike for Gaza


For 18 days, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.