Tag: inequality
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.”
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.
The billionaires who couldn’t kick straight
America’s super rich and their European pals have failed spectacularly in a scheme to kill global football’s most egalitarian traditions.
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Popular sugar substitute erythritol damages blood-brain barrier, elevating stroke risk
A new study shows how erythritol, a zero-calorie sugar alternative, directly damages human cells that comprise the blood-brain barrier.
Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Waterboarding for dollars in Cuba
The CBS Sunday Morning program, “Next: Cuba?” which aired on April 26, presented a discussion of the recent intensification of sanctions on...
California officials accuse Trump administration of targeting blue states after Medicaid funding freeze
Federal officials cite fraud concerns while California leaders warn millions could lose access to critical healthcare and in-home support services.
Butter (and schools), not guns (and warfare)
The War Against Iran, Up Close and Personal (and All Too Far Away).