A Precarious Victory in El Salvador A Precarious Victory in El Salvador
Washington is threatening to withhold development aid unless El Salvador adopts economic policies that Salvadorans just voted against.
Mar 18, 2014 / Madeleine Conway and Foreign Policy In Focus
Starving College Students and the Shredded Social Contract Starving College Students and the Shredded Social Contract
Economic desperation among college students helps explain why millenials don’t believe in small government.
Mar 17, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg
Before He Goes Off Again, Paul Ryan Might Want to Study His Irish History Before He Goes Off Again, Paul Ryan Might Want to Study His Irish History
House Budget Chair gets some scholarly encouragement to consider the past before blaming today's poor for their circumstance.
Mar 17, 2014 / John Nichols
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