Inequality

Global Warming: The Rich Opt Out Global Warming: The Rich Opt Out

Conservation, like taxes, is for little people. When you're rich you can waste all the water you want.

Nov 28, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

Deal Breakers Deal Breakers

Two new books seek to galvanize progressives at a key political moment: Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal and Jonathan Chait's The Big Con.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

Luxury Grub Luxury Grub

What's so great about designer chocolate if it's infested with cockroach droppings? As the economic widens, rich and poor still occupy the same food chain.

Nov 19, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich

A mobile home park in ruins after the 2007 Harris Fire in California.

People Burn Here People Burn Here

Immigrants are the invisible victims of the California wildfires.

Nov 1, 2007 / Mike Davis

Give Us This Day Our Daily Debt Give Us This Day Our Daily Debt

As the superrich get richer, the rest of us sink deeper into debt. But when American consumers can no longer consume, our whole system falls apart.

Oct 30, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

The Reality of Poverty The Reality of Poverty

Poverty in America is a moral issue.

Oct 8, 2007 / Feature / Alyssa Katharine Ritz Battistoni

Travails of the Super-Rich Travails of the Super-Rich

Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.

Aug 31, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich

The Bloatocrats The Bloatocrats

The New York Times turns a spotlight on the super-rich who veil their affluence in assertions of the good that they do. It makes Gordon Gekko's naked greed look good.

Jul 27, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

The Trouble With the Super-Rich The Trouble With the Super-Rich

A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass.

Jun 12, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich

CEOs vs. Slaves CEOs vs. Slaves

New chasms are opening in the unequal terrain of American society: To the ranks of exploited domestics and factory workers, consider the emerging proletariat of adjunct faculty and...

May 29, 2007 / Feature / Barbara Ehrenreich

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