Billionaires, Meet Reparations
For perhaps the first time in living memory, reparations for African-Americans are a topic of serious mainstream…
Of Course Successful People Want Everyone to Be Nice
Why do wealthy celebrities always decry “haters” above all other evils? Why do successful people at the top of their…
Rich People Have Been Taking Your Money For 40 Years And They Still Are
Why all the talk about socialism? Why all the talk about inequality, and the 99% vs. the 1%? Because for the past forty…
One Hundred Years Ago, This Man Knew Everything About Today
On June 16, 1918, the socialist Eugene Debs gave a speech in Canton, Ohio. Did he have a time machine to peer a hundred…
Amazon Is Dividing (and Conquering?) New York City's Unions
Amazon’s plans to build its HQ2 in New York City in exchange for nearly $3 billion in public subsidies is dividing the…
Amazon Is Shopping for Sellouts
Amazon is set to bring thousands of new jobs and billions of dollars to New York City. This marks the most promising…
How Labor Can Win the Next Shutdown
The (temporary) end of the government shutdown has been celebrated, understandably, as a victory for working people.…
The Reaction to Elizabeth Warren's Wealth Tax Proposal Is Already So Dumb
On Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is running for president, proposed a wealth tax on Americans with assets over…
Gaze Upon the Decadent, Profligate Luxury Pig
Just days after buying a $122 million house in London, hedge fund manager Ken Griffin has bought a $238 million…
Watch Out For the Billionaires' Compromise
One thing that very rich people are good at is managing risk. If they make a judgment that the political tide is…
Sell the Ford Foundation Building
As charitable foundations go, the Ford Foundation—which lists “challenging inequality” as its defining goal—is not bad.…
Here's How the Trump Administration Wants to Make Life Even Worse for Fast Food Workers
The Fight for 15 movement has successfully raised wages for working people across America, but it also made significant …
The Next Big Legal Case to Assassinate Unions Is On The Way
This summer, the Supreme Court gutted America’s public labor unions with the Janus ruling. Now, another case has the…
Rich People, I Am Here To Help You
Although you might imagine having millions or billions of dollars would make you happy, the ultra-rich are simply never…
Vote Class War
No matter who wins today, please remember this: the rich are your enemy. This fact is built into the structure of our…
The Inequality-Corruption Feedback Loop That Describes America
In today’s political climate, it is easy to focus on each day’s new flood of awfulness and lose sight of The Big…
The Disgrace of the Elites
This is actually, without exaggeration, without sloganeering, how fascism happens.
Standards
There are those who believe that with great power comes great responsibility. Then there is the ruling political party…
Take The Equity
In much of the US, the mere mention of tax increases will prompt cries of “Socialism! Venezuela!” Meanwhile, in the UK:…
The Math of Jeff Bezos' Astounding Greed
Trinket magnate Jeff Bezos, America’s richest man, has made a very public charity donation of a $2 billion. The number…