Could Elon Musk Actually Destroy Social Security as We Know It?
The DOGE boys are already moving in that direction.
An Inequality Tale of Two Capital Cities
In one, lawmakers are taxing the rich. In the other, they're rushing the rich a free pass at tax time.
Will the Current Musk Coup Define Our Future?
Only if we don’t start really pushing to prevent the ongoing concentration of America’s wealth.
Anger Explodes at Health Care CEOs
Private insurers profit by denying help to sick people. When a CEO was murdered, Americans said just how they feel about that system.
Two Words That Haunt So Many Hurricane Victims: ‘Claim Denied’
Insurance industry execs should be fighting fossil-fuel powerhouses, not shortchanging policyholders.
To Best Understand Inequality, Think Class, Not Generation
Our age cohorts don’t tell the full story.
From Massachusetts, Some Tax-the-Rich Inspiration
The super rich, worldwide, are regularly cowing their critics. Bay Staters have pounded back.
The Well-Heeled and Our Personal Well-Being
Psychologists are helping us understand how inequality is conditioning us to accept lower ethical standards.
Amid Discouraging Inequality Data, Some Signs of Hope
By Sam Pizzigati / CounterPunch Back in the early 20th century, earnest middle-class reformers out to overturn America’s plutocratic order gravitated to the pages of The Public, a weekly magazine…
America’s Auto Workers: On Strike Against Inequality. Again
UAW activists years ago helped usher in a vastly more equal society. Can history repeat?
A Good Year’s Pay for a Good Day’s Work?
By Sam Pizzigati / Inequality.org Can you imagine a president of the United States proposing a federal budget that quadruples the paychecks that go to top federal officials? Of course…
The Two Decades That Created Our World’s First Mass Middle Class
If we take on our rich, we can recreate that success.
We Must Not Dance, Harry Belafonte Understood, to a Billionaire Beat
This epochal artist helped us see that justice for all requires a just distribution of wealth.
Baseball’s Owners Have Ball Games Shorter — and Maybe Fan Lives, Too
These billionaires seem to care more about their bottom lines than fan safety.
The Lesson We Need to Teach Our Nation’s Rich
Our educational house most definitely is burning, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders told a town hall on America’s teacher pay crisis at the U.S. Capitol earlier this week.