In Praise of the Utopian Political Imagination In Praise of the Utopian Political Imagination
Thomas Piketty’s ambitious, lucid Capital in the Twenty-First Century explains the depth and scope of our inequality problem.
Mar 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Kathleen Geier
The Town That Turned Poverty Into a Prison Sentence The Town That Turned Poverty Into a Prison Sentence
Most states shut down their debtors’ prisons more than 100 years ago; in 2005, Harpersville, Alabama, opened one back up.
Mar 14, 2014 / Feature / Hannah Rappleye and Lisa Riordan Seville
How Economic Populism Is Transforming the Most Unequal Region of the Globe How Economic Populism Is Transforming the Most Unequal Region of the Globe
During a decade when economic inequality grew by leaps and bounds in the rest of the world, it declined significantly in Latin America.
Mar 13, 2014 / Kathleen Geier
Economic Reform Is a Human Right Economic Reform Is a Human Right
International law can be a powerful advocacy tool for improving economic and social policy.
Mar 13, 2014 / Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz
Rep. Barbara Lee Hits Back at Paul Ryan’s Dog-Whistle Politics Rep. Barbara Lee Hits Back at Paul Ryan’s Dog-Whistle Politics
What Paul Ryan really means when he lambasts “inner city” culture.
Mar 12, 2014 / Steven Hsieh
Paul Ryan’s Culture Canard Paul Ryan’s Culture Canard
“Inner-city men,” says Ryan, need to learn the “value and the culture of work.”
Mar 12, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg
Tech-Sector Neoliberalism Isn’t the Answer to America’s Inequality Problem Tech-Sector Neoliberalism Isn’t the Answer to America’s Inequality Problem
Policies favored by tech-industry titans tend to leave the economic privileges of the powerful unchecked, while penciling in a little welfare capitalism for the poor.
Mar 11, 2014 / Kathleen Geier
How to Win the Fight for Immigration Reform How to Win the Fight for Immigration Reform
Change won’t come to America’s broken immigration system from policymakers. It will come from organizers.
Mar 10, 2014 / Oscar Chacon, Amy Shannon, and Foreign Policy In Focus
Jon Kyl, Barred From Lobbying, Offers to Assist Clients with Tax Reform Jon Kyl, Barred From Lobbying, Offers to Assist Clients with Tax Reform
Even though he's in the ‘cooling off’ period, Kyl is lobbying on a proposed tax overhaul.
Mar 10, 2014 / Lee Fang
Vermont Votes for Public Banking Vermont Votes for Public Banking
“[It] doesn’t make any sense for us to be sending Vermont’s hard-earned tax dollars to some bank on Wall Street which couldn’t care less about Vermont or Ve...
Mar 9, 2014 / John Nichols