The ‘Makers’ and the ‘Takers’
Today’s super rich engorge themselves on federal dollars and evade billions in taxes while ordinary Americans work themselves to the...
Today’s super rich engorge themselves on federal dollars and evade billions in taxes while ordinary Americans work themselves to the...
In his most recent piece for the New York Times, celebrated economist Paul Krugman ponders the ways his chosen field...
At long last, the Koch brothers and their conservative allies in state government have found a new tax they can...
You’ve probably heard of the billionaire Koch Brothers by now, and their sinister push to distort our democracy. But you...
An oligarchy, Webster’s dictionary tells us, is “a form of government in which the ruling power belongs to a few...
Racist rancher and welfare cowboy Cliven Bundy got some help from an unexpected quarter over the weekend, as a far...
RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence and battery charges last week, dodging 45 felony counts for...
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
Citizens across the U.S. are attempting to break free of the fossil fuel industry and do what state and federal...
The evidence of income inequality just keeps mounting. According to “Working for the Few,” a recent briefing paper from Oxfam,...
The claim that America is riven by class conflict may come as a surprise to people who like to think...
Since Ronald Reagan’s “supply-side” tax cuts for the rich – followed by other giveaways like eliminating the “death tax” so...
April 15, Washington – As hardworking Americans file their taxes today, it’s a good time to be reminded that ordinary...
At 79, Graef “Bud” Crystal is the grand old man of executive compensation critics. Once a top compensation consultant, he...
A bill designed to repeal Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an...
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens is taking aim at the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision to eliminate the limit on...
Extreme inequality, it turns out, creates a class of people who are alarmingly detached from reality — and simultaneously gives...
Charles and David Koch hit a milestone on Wednesday, as a $1.3 billion boost to their collective fortune sent their...
The chaos in Ukraine can be viewed, in part, as what happens when a collection of “oligarchs” – sometimes competing,...
Tuesday on his show “Off the Grid,” former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura “called bullsh*t” on the “one percent” who are...
As a result of the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, billionaires and large corporations can now spend an unlimited...
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
Most people know about income inequality: the gap in earnings between the 1 percent and the rest of us that...
WASHINGTON — Billions of dollars in U.S. taxes are going unpaid because Americans are exploiting Swiss bank accounts, and the...
An expensive tax break intended to make more Americans homeowners is instead making American homes bigger without benefiting non-rich people,...
A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, finds that the U.S....
Billionaire oilman David Koch used to joke that Koch Industries was “the biggest company you’ve never heard of.” Now the...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) asked Thursday whether the U.S. was evolving into an oligarchy during a speech on the Senate...
People like Sheldon Adelson support candidates who are in favor of lowering tax rates for corporations and the super-wealthy —...
When organized interest groups or economic elites want a particular policy passed, there’s a strongly likelihood their wishes will come...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) accused the Koch brothers of “trying to buy America”.
A new pair of reports suggests that the super rich are richer than we thought.
A Delaware man convicted of raping his three-year-old daughter only faced probation after a state Superior Court judge ruled he...
Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson told a crowd at Yeshiva University in New York on Tuesday that the only proper negotiating...
Yes, there are “takers” in the American economy, but they’re not the poor folks Mitt Romney referenced in his now-infamous...
There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who...
Does being super-wealthy make you extra susceptible to self-pity today? That’s the only conclusion we can draw from an epidemic...