The espresso machine in Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s personal office in Newport Beach, California, retails for $14,000—almost as much as the $14,674 annual wage of the coffee giant’s median worker, a ...

Private-equity magnate Jeffrey Leerink has been busy pillaging healthcare and the life sciences.

Executive compensation analyst Sarah Anderson testified before the Portland, Oregon city council about a proposed increase in ...

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders launched a Poor People’s Campaign in 1968 to tackle what he called the “Triplets of Evil” — systemic racism, poverty, and militarism.

Americans across the political spectrum are rightly fed up with up with overpaid CEOs. But many also feel there’s nothing we can do about this problem. That’s where they’re wrong. People can use their ...

For years, the people organizing against extreme inequality have made a simple argument that the world’s institutions preferred not to hear: the gap between the very rich and everyone else is not an ...

How can the U.S. reverse democracy-distorting concentrations of wealth and power? A federal annual wealth tax must be part of the equation. The richest 0.1 percent — the top one-thousandth of ...

Conventional wisdom claims that far-right voters are the least supportive of redistribution and the least likely to change their minds when faced with facts about inequality. But my recent study with ...

As the coronavirus pandemic swept America in 2020, a few industries managed not only to weather the economic shock but actually prosper. Food-delivery apps, exercise bikes, and streaming services all ...

After nearly two decades of tracking the American private jet industry here at the Institute for Policy Studies, we are formally launching the Private Jet Accountability Project with a Tax Private ...

This summer, as part of his broader effort to make New York’s cultural spectacles more accessible, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that the city would be making $100 tickets to the U.S. Open available ...

Affordability is getting worse, especially if you have to drive to work or anywhere else. By late September, the total cost of the higher gas and diesel prices triggered by President Trump’s war ...