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From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
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American Rich Beware: The Peasants Still Have Their Pitchforks
Americans want what 21st century politics has so far not delivered: real options for challenging concentrated wealth.
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Our Less-Than-Empathetic Rich: Who Gives What to Whom and Why?
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Failure of Service: Why the Era of Privatizations Is Coming To a Close
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Raking It All In: America's CEO's Are Living Bigger and Fatter Than Ever
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Bunny Mellon Was the Last Living Link to Plutocracy 1.0
Dead at 103, Mellon's wealth spanned the period of America’s original plutocrats – the gang that ushered in the Great Depression – and our contemporary plutocrats who gave us the Great Recession.
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Counting the Dollars the Rich Want Uncounted
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The Political Calculations Behind Growing Inequality
The current issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives features four political scientists trying to answer the question: why hasn't democracy slowed rising inequality?
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Once Upon a Time, Corporations Paid Taxes
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Meet the CEO Who Cut Worker Pay in Half While Pulling in $21 Million Last Year
CEOs these days aren’t just slashing worker jobs to add on to their own rewards. They’re slashing worker pay as well.
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"Soak the Rich": Rediscovering Economic Fairness in America
Can we shrink our super rich down to a less powerful and more democratic size? Of course we can: we've done it before.
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The tragic shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is just the latest example of ICE having a fundamental disrespect for human life — further proving why the agency should be stripped of funding and shut down, and its rank-and-file agents and leadership prosecuted.
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The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
Posted 1 month 2 weeks ago
We can still celebrate success while simultaneously putting a cap on net worth.
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The current wave of food recalls is a direct byproduct of President Donald Trump’s administration deliberately removing the safeguards put in place aimed at protecting American consumers more than a century ago.
Posted 1 week 2 days ago
