U.S. inequality is egregious, but it’s far less egregious when measured correctly. But understanding our true degree of inequality is important, especially for the many Democratic presidential ...

Voters in Alaska, Arkansas and South Dakota all replaced their Democratic senators with Republicans on Tuesday. Those same voters raised the minimum wage in their states. In Nebraska, 65 percent of ...

The pageantry. The pomp. The parade of fashion. The royal wedding cleared 22.4 million viewers in the U.S. We have a love of royalty in the U.S. Perhaps it is the longing for acknowledged class ...

The chart above shows that the share of income earned by the top 5% in 2006 (IRS data here) was 35.9% (the IRS data also shows that group paid 60% of all income taxes). How does that distribution of ...

Lloyd Blankfein, who is stepping down as chief executive of Goldman Sachs, personified the era of economic inequality. At a time when average Americans are struggling to make wage gains, Blankfein was ...

On the Presidio's historic Soldier Field the morning of Jan. 13, hidden within the physical challenges and friendly competition, was a practical lesson for the Marines on inequality. Unknowingly, the ...

Inequality is of greater concern today than for many years. Politicians as diverse as Theresa May, Barack Obama and Jeremy Corbyn have proclaimed its centrality. Yet we don’t know exactly what it is ...

Smart, funny and articulate, Robert Reich is the university professor we all wish we’d had. He’s so accessible and entertaining he takes a subject that sounds soporific and makes it come alive like ...