In the Tax Debate: A Blast of Fresh New Air
‘Soak the rich,’ after years in the shadows, has suddenly become a policy option fit for discussion in ‘respectable’ media circles.
Why Almost Anybody Can Be a CEO
The takeaway from the latest top gun flame-out at Hewlett-Packard: Chief executive “success,” in America today, essentially demands no more than greed and a developmentally arrested ego.
Should Vanity Candidacies Have Us Worried?
A new study says super-rich candidates who personally bankroll their own campaigns almost always lose. But that, unfortunately, doesn’t make the rest of us winners.
America’s Top Incomes: Down But Certainly Not Out
New data — for 2008 — have revealed a shrinking gap between the rich and the rest of us. But the nation’s top high-income tracker isn’t celebrating. And neither should we.
Move Over, Climate Change Deniers
Make room for a new right-wing assault on scientific research. In the cross-hairs this time: the massive epidemiological evidence on inequality’s horrific toll on our health and overall well-being.
