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Over 8,000 Americans, on average, die every day. Many of these Americans die unnecessarily. Their cause of death? The United States — our planet’s...
Over 8,000 Americans die every day, many of them unnecessarily. Why? Because the United States still doesn’t have a national health care
Billions upon billions give our world’s wealthiest an overabundance of mind-boggling political power, and right now they’re wielding that power to...
The world desperately needs to pull the plug on fossil fuels. So agree most of the official delegates from nearly 200 nations who have gathered this...
With Donald Trump about to re-enter the White House and his sidekicks about to assume control over Congress, America’s progressives are once again...
As Americans, we hold dear several core democratic values, none more basic than “one person, one vote.” But our contemporary
As Americans, we hold dear several core democratic values, none more basic than “one person, one vote.” But our contemporary economic realities...
By Jonathan Power A speech of General George Patton, a famous World War II warrior, has an uncanny resemblance to the philosophy of Donald Trump....
UBS, the giant Swiss private bank, has been tracking newcomers to the ranks of the world’s billionaire class for going on a decade now. The latest...
This new Biden-era federal refusal to automatically do Big Tech’s bidding has energized billionaires once content to pay relatively little attention...
Once upon a time, here in the United States, we taxed the rich. Significantly. Today, by contrast, we’re actively enhancing their fortunes....
Two of Musk’s commercial operations, Tesla and SpaceX, have received billions in American taxpayer support. The federal government, Politico points...
Now it's time to tax it back to where much of it came from.
Major insurers are denying legitimate claims following extreme weather events while underwriting fossil fuels and lining their CEOs’ pocketbooks.
Do you know that you’re in good hands with Allstate? Or how about State Farm? Do you know that, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there? Of course...
America’s wealthiest have towered over the rest of us for quite some time now, and most all of us have over recent decades gained at least a little...
Have our world’s super rich become absolutely paranoid about the future? Or do they, deep down, understand that our exceedingly unequal global...
Budding entrepreneurs worldwide are devoting their time and talents to making our Earth as safe as possible for our planet’s top 1% that now holds...
We haven’t of late had much in the way of political “consensus” here in the United States. But we do today have one consensus of sorts — on...
We haven’t of late had much in the way of political “consensus” here in the United States. But we do today have one consensus of sorts — on...
If we play our cards right, we might finally see the wealthy start paying their fair share in 2025.
“The wealthiest of the wealthy have figured out how to get richer and richer and richer and richer in ways that just don’t show up on a tax...
The billionaires who run the world’s most phenomenally profitable sport have just decided to “share the wealth” — with the greediest of their...
Over 3,000 migrants fleeing from poverty and conflict, the Council on Foreign Relations recently noted, died last year trying to cross the...
3,000 deaths of migrants made barely a ripple in most of the world’s major news media. But this summer one single tragedy on the Mediterranean has...
Fine art has been a wonderful vehicle for “wealth signaling among the ultra-rich,” the Duke University sociologist Lisa Keister recently noted,...
But both the younger and older rich want to pay as little as possible in taxes on the income their investments—in whatever category—end up...
For the richest among us, life on Earth can sometimes get rather boring. But worry not for our world’s deepest pockets. At least five firms...
Ever wonder why the divide between the world’s richest and everybody else keeps getting wider? Gabriel Zucman, one of the world’s finest young...
One promising possible consequence that U.S. lawmakers could pursue is a tax hike on corporations that pay their CEOs at 50 times or more than what...
Norway’s progressive lawmakers have put together a new “exit tax” that will have wealthy exiles paying a loophole-free exit levy on unrealized...
To limit the impact of our wealthiest on our politics, we simply must limit the wealth of our wealthiest.
With three months still left in the state fiscal year, the new Massachusetts millionaires tax has already generated $1.8 billion in added new revenue,...
By Lisa Vives South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is promoting a long-awaited new law that would provide universal health care free of charge for...
Once upon a time, back in the middle of the 20th century, the smallest theater on Broadway could have comfortably accommodated a get-together of all...
Just what exactly happens when a society becomes substantially more unequal, when a few become fabulously richer than the many? Defenders of our...
When the richest get a free ride, the rest of us get... flattened.
What makes an income tax “fair”? Right-wing lawmakers the nation over have a ready answer. To be fair, they tell us, an income tax needs to be...
Why not press for legislation that denies nonprofit status—and the tax breaks that come with it—to nonprofits that pay their top execs at any rate...
With both millionaires and homelessness on the rise in the U.S., right-wing donors are bankrolling a nationally coordinated move to end experiments in...
America, a new report details, is minting millionaires at a record pace. Some 37 percent of the world’s millionaires, analysts at the wealth...
Some 17 local governments, the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) details in a just-released report, are now...
By the start of the 2020s, a light tax touch on America’s most financially favored had left America’s richest 0.01% with 10% of the nation’s...
How many people in India are going hungry? Researchers working on the Global Hunger Index are currently tracking 125 nations across the world. Exactly...
Recent weeks have brought three more eye-popping glimpses of our world’s unconscionable concentration of income and wealth . . . The fabled luxury...