For decades in the mid 20th century, our nation’s grandest private fortunes were becoming less pronounced. And then . . .

We need to fix the health care system that has Joe Six-Pack paying the same basic tax as Jeff Bezos

The scary arithmetic of grand fortune is shrinking our household nest-eggs

We’ve “grown the pie” massively since the 1980s, but it hasn’t resulted in ordinary Americans getting a bigger slice.

Before we even begin the challenge of persuading white Americans to do right, we first must persuade ourselves to stop doing wrong. Racism, structural and overt, is alive and well in America today

The last Congress ensured that America’s wealth will concentrate ever more rapidly at the very top — unless the next one does something about it

Sometimes percentages alone don’t do justice to the injustice of corporate compensation

The wealth of America’s middle class, under siege for four decades, is now hanging on life support. That life will end if the basic Republican tax plan, as now envisioned by House and Senate majorities, ever becomes law