The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Tech City Skyscrapers Cast A Shadow of Wealth Over London’s Poorest Neighborhoods
As state-of-the-art buildings belonging to some of the world's biggest, richest tech firms contrast with the child poverty and unemployment outside, it may not be long before London's less privileged residents take action.
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It's Official: The One Percent Are Literally Rich Beyond Measure
The wealth of the most well off people is under-counted because they hide it in tax shelters, keep it in foundations and holding companies, and don’t respond to questionnaires, according to recent research.
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Foundations, Donors, "Philanthropists" Are Increasing – Not Narrowing – the Wealth Gap
America's foundations and wealthiest donors give only a small proportion of their total donations to local and grassroots organizations – furthering the divide between elite institutions and everybody else.
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As Inequality Soars With Bloated Executive Pay, U.K. Group Demands "Radical Action"
Reporting that CEOs in the U.K. earn 162 times more than the average worker, the High Pay Centre calls on government to put immediate caps on executive salaries.
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Defending the 99%: Why Centrist Democrats Are Losing the Middle
The corporatist, Wall Street wing of the party wants to draw a distinction between inequality and opportunity – but passive-voice populism won’t cut it anymore.
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Inequality Is Not Inevitable: Rewriting Laws to Reverse A Politics of Greed
Widening and deepening inequality is not driven by immutable economic laws, but by laws we have written ourselves.
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Letter from a Zillionaire: The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats
Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear and we will be back to late 18th-century France – before the revolution.
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The Origins of Inequality: Ancient Roots of the 1%
Inequality has deep archaeological roots, but if existing traditional societies are any guide, our hunter-gatherer ancestors were mostly egalitarian – so how and when did so few begin to amass such wealth?
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Scholar Behind Viral "Oligarchy" Study Tells Us What It Means
Contrary to what decades of political science research might lead you to believe, ordinary U.S. citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does.
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The Ownership Revolution: A Future Emerging After Capital
Credit unions — member-owned, one-person, one-vote banks — control more than $1.1 trillion in assets, as much as those of some of Wall Street’s largest financial institutions.
