How Wall Street Reform Could Give Low-Income Families a Big Boost

Reining in the big banks would reduce risk while generating investment opportunities for everyone else.

Sarah Anderson and Marc Bayard and John Cavanagh and Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati

Inequality Will Not Go Away On Its Own. Here’s How to Close the Gap.

To ensure a future of shared prosperity, we need to rewrite the rules that protect the wealthiest Americans.

Sarah Anderson and Marc Bayard and John Cavanagh and Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati

How US Tax Policy Encourages Outrageous CEO Compensation

This loophole will cost the federal treasury an estimated $50 billion over the next decade.

Sarah Anderson and Marc Bayard and John Cavanagh and Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati

Offshore Tax Havens Are Strangling Local Government

The super-rich have stashed more than $1 trillion overseas. Bringing it home would help restore poor communities.

Sarah Anderson and Marc Bayard and John Cavanagh and Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati

Want Debt-Free College? Tax the Rich.

A 1 percent tax on concentrated wealth would erase student debt over a decade and bring the cost of public higher education to zero.

Sarah Anderson and Marc Bayard and John Cavanagh and Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati

Retirement Benefits Are Rigged to Favor the Rich

Wealthy CEOs are sheltering too much of their pay. A cap could fund long-term care for all seniors.

Sarah Anderson and Marc Bayard and John Cavanagh and Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati

How the Super-Rich Can Kickstart the Green Economy

A surcharge on luxury consumption would curb emissions and help communities make the jump to clean energy.

Sarah Anderson and Marc Bayard and John Cavanagh and Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati

The Secret to Funding Universal Pre-K Is Buried in the Tax Code

If we closed the capital-gains loophole, we could put every child in America on track for success.

Sarah Anderson and Marc Bayard and John Cavanagh and Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati

Black Workers Matter, Too

A movement linking civil rights with the right to organize would narrow the racial wage gap—and reinvigorate American labor.

Sarah Anderson and Marc Bayard and John Cavanagh and Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati

Flint Is the Predicted Outcome of Michigan’s Long, Dangerous History With ‘Emergency Managers’

For years, I have joined voters, other elected officials, and even courts in warning that the right-wing takeover of local government would end this way.

Rep. John Conyers

Silver Swan

James Longenbach

The Alter Ego of Robert Craft

For many years, the conductor was inseparable from the music and household of Igor Stravinsky.

David Schiff

The Federal Reserve’s Growing Power

Can the jury-rigged arrangement between the US economy and its governing bodies last?

Timothy Shenk