America, chief executive pay is now 300 times more than the average worker. That’s a high enough ratio that presidential candidates are taking note on…
Economic inequality
The defeat of the Harvard University debate team by a team from the Eastern New York Correctional Facility in the Catskills elucidates a truth known…
Income inequality is at an all time high. The world’s 80 richest people have as much wealth as the poorest 50 percent. By 2016, Oxfam International predicts…
On Monday, presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke to a self-professed conservative Christian group. We live in a time of perpetual war, and Sanders—who sometimes…
Living In Limbo: The European Refugee Crisis Explained Alan M. Kraut, professor of history at American University, affiliate faculty member of its School of International…
On a continent that is home to some of the world's richest people, most profitable businesses, and most valuable assets—including 342 billionaires—more than 120 million…
A new book by two of our nation’s foremost poverty researchers, Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer, reveals the desperate circumstances that hundreds of thousands…
The ideological and physical hold of American imperial power, buttressed by the utopian ideology of neoliberalismand global capitalism, is unraveling. Most, including many of those at…
After forty years of rising income and wealth inequality, some of America's rich seem worried that maybe things have gone too far. In a recent…
Comedian Bob Newhart once based a routine on the thesis that if we equip an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters,…
Income inequality is growing in the United States. The poor are getting poorer, and the rich, richer. But that's only part of the story: A new study shows that three out of…
Last week, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff released the new National Military Strategy of the United States of America, 2015. The report’s main theme is that…