A holiday for popular generosity like Giving Tuesday is worth celebrating. But wealth inequality can overshadow its impact.

The good times — for America’s super wealthy — are now rolling way past good. Our richest have in 2024 enjoyed their best year ever. No other nation’s deepest pockets have watched their fortunes grow ...

Officially, we don’t have royalty in this country. However, we do have “retail kings.” Like “Crazy Eddie.” In the 1970s and 1980s, the Crazy Eddie electronics chain stretched from Philadelphia to ...

If you’re suddenly feeling confused about inequality, you have a good reason. Two of America’s most authoritative dailies — the New York Times and the Washington Post — have just come out with pieces ...

Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon. He’ll stay on as the executive chairman of Amazon’s board, but he’ll no longer be managing the company on a daily basis. Editors and pundits worldwide are ...

Why has America become so unequal? Americans, says one school of thought, simply don’t care how wealthy our wealthiest get to be. The New York Times has just run an analysis that plays off this ...

Where in the developed world do rich people pay the least in taxes? To Americans these days, this question would seem to have an obvious answer. The most rich people-friendly nation at tax time simply ...

One of the country's largest donor-advised fund sponsors publishes an annual report that demands a closer look.

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence systems is precipitating an environmentally problematic spike in data center ...

Does Trump’s re-election mean that the U.S. labor resurgence is over? Not necessarily. It’s true that the new administration is preparing major attacks against workers and the labor movement. And many ...