The party’s habitual deference to big donors makes it impossible to effectively oppose Trumpism. In his first term, Donald Trump presided over perhaps the most brazenly plutocratic government the ...
Here’s a meaty article by the conservative professor James Kurth, discussing the foreign policy implications of our plutocratic governing order. Excerpts: It is obvious that the 1990s was a decisive ...
The promotional build up to Obama’s January 12, 2016 State of the Union speech promised something completely different than his previous performances. Yet, on the day, it seemed completely the same, ...
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BERKELEY — Why did the policy response to the Great Recession only partly reflect the lessons learned from the Great Depression? Until recently, the smart money was on the answers given by The ...
The international charity Oxfam has issued a new report on social inequality showing that the gap between the super-rich and the majority of society is not only not shrinking—it is growing at an ...
Elon Musk is a beneficiary of America’s lopsided prosperity – does the country have any appetite for redistribution?
The controversy over the disparity between the rich and the rest of us has hit the covers of two emblematic fountains of ideas; The Economist and The Atlantic Monthly. The mention of a risk to society ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. With income inequality on everyone’s radar today, the Center on Budget and Policy ...