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Life in the United States has never been better — if your personal fortune stretches well into the thousands of millions. Our new year has dawned...
Over three score years ago, President Dwight Eisenhower had a warning for America. “We must guard against the acquisition of
Over three score years ago, President Dwight Eisenhower had a warning for America. “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,...
“Every morning,” the billionaire Marc Andreessen smiled a few weeks after Donald Trump’s re-election this past November, “I wake up happier...
Overall, the world’s 500 richest ended 2024 worth a combined $9.8 trillion. Some 34 percent of the $1.5 trillion they gained over the course of the...
The new year has begun with old news: The world is continuing to become colossally more unequal — with the United States leading the way. In 2024,...
Over 8,000 Americans, on average, die every day. Many of these Americans die unnecessarily. Their cause of death? The United States — our planet’s...
Of the world’s 15 largest personal fortunes, 14 currently belong to Americans. All these 14 will be stepping into 2025 with at least $100 billion...
Over 8,000 Americans die every day, many of them unnecessarily. Why? Because the United States still doesn’t have a national health care system...
After UnitedHealthcare's Brian Thompson was gunned down, America’s health care powers feel and fear the U.S. public’s anger now more than ever.
Billions upon billions give our world’s wealthiest an overabundance of mind-boggling political power, and right now they’re wielding that power to...
A global 2% annual tax on billionaire wealth could raise $250 billion per year from just the world’s 100 richest families.
The world desperately needs to pull the plug on fossil fuels. So agree most of the official delegates from nearly 200 nations who have gathered...
The super rich who backed the Republican president-elect must think they have us exactly where they want us. Now is the best time to turn the tables.
With Donald Trump about to re-enter the White House and his sidekicks about to assume control over Congress, America’s progressives are once again...
As Americans, we hold dear several core democratic values, none more basic than “one person, one vote.” But our contemporary economic realities...
As Americans, we hold dear several core democratic values, none more basic than “one person, one vote.” But our contemporary economic realities...
By Jonathan Power A speech of General George Patton, a famous World War II warrior, has an uncanny resemblance to the philosophy of Donald Trump....
UBS, the giant Swiss private bank, has been tracking newcomers to the ranks of the world’s billionaire class for going on a decade now. The latest...
This new Biden-era federal refusal to automatically do Big Tech’s bidding has energized billionaires once content to pay relatively little...
Once upon a time, here in the United States, we taxed the rich. Significantly. Today, by contrast, we’re actively enhancing their fortunes....
Two of Musk’s commercial operations, Tesla and SpaceX, have received billions in American taxpayer support. The federal government, Politico points...
Now it's time to tax it back to where much of it came from.
Major insurers are denying legitimate claims following extreme weather events while underwriting fossil fuels and lining their CEOs’ pocketbooks.
Do you know that you’re in good hands with Allstate? Or how about State Farm? Do you know that, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there? Of...
America’s wealthiest have towered over the rest of us for quite some time now, and most all of us have over recent decades gained at least a little...
Have our world’s super rich become absolutely paranoid about the future? Or do they, deep down, understand that our exceedingly unequal global...
Budding entrepreneurs worldwide are devoting their time and talents to making our Earth as safe as possible for our planet’s top 1% that now holds...
We haven’t of late had much in the way of political “consensus” here in the United States. But we do today have one consensus of sorts — on our tax...
We haven’t of late had much in the way of political “consensus” here in the United States. But we do today have one consensus of sorts — on our tax...
If we play our cards right, we might finally see the wealthy start paying their fair share in 2025.
“The wealthiest of the wealthy have figured out how to get richer and richer and richer and richer in ways that just don’t show up on a tax form,"...
The billionaires who run the world’s most phenomenally profitable sport have just decided to “share the wealth” — with the greediest of their...
3,000 deaths of migrants made barely a ripple in most of the world’s major news media. But this summer one single tragedy on the Mediterranean has...
Fine art has been a wonderful vehicle for “wealth signaling among the ultra-rich,” the Duke University sociologist Lisa Keister recently noted,...
But both the younger and older rich want to pay as little as possible in taxes on the income their investments—in whatever category—end up creating...
For the richest among us, life on Earth can sometimes get rather boring. But worry not for our world’s deepest pockets. At least five firms...