After World War II, Dems lost touch with their New Deal roots. Now they’re coming back home.
Poverty & Wealth
Posted inBooks
A World From the Inside
Theo Baker is exposed to the inner sanctum of how Silicon Valley makes its anointed fellow travelers unspeakably rich.
Posted inTAP
The California Left and the Wealth Tax
The absence of left unity for the ballot measure short-circuits any progressive agenda.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Dorothy Day: Saint Radical
The incredible life and times of the Catholic who served the poor and gave hell to everyone else
Posted inEconomic Policy
Will Trump Accounts Close the Racial Wealth Gap, or Worsen It?
The investment accounts for newborns have been lauded as an innovative wealth-building program. But they might exacerbate economic inequalities instead of remedying them.
Posted inWorking in America
A Great Economy Unless You Have to Work for a Living
The gap between investment income and work income has never been so glaring.
Posted inAmerica and the World
How Jared Kushner’s Luxury Hotel Sparked a Protest Movement in Albania
The movement is giving voice to the latent anger in a country ruled by those with wealth and connections.
Posted inTAP
Benjamin Franklin, Champion of the Wealth Tax
When public needs were great, he wrote, its claim on the ‘superfluous’ property of the rich was strong and just.
Posted inPolitics
A Bad Week for Billionaires
Losing New York to socialists, facing a wealth tax election in California—our oligarchs begin to suspect that Americans may not like them very much.