Nation Topics - Inequality | The Nation

The conservative NYT columnist steers the conversation away from economics and toward “behavioral” terrain.

Fifty years after LBJ declared a War on Poverty, the United States ranks near the bottom in childhood poverty among all developed nations.

There’s little support among the wealthiest Americans for policy reforms to reduce income inequality.

Even non-believers can’t deny the inherent wisdom and clarity of the pontiff’s critique of the modern capitalist economy.

A long-term plan to renovate the American dream begins at the local level and scales up.

A conversation with the former labor secretary and merry-eyed agitator about the great ill that ails the country.

As the wealth gap grows, so have the number of ways a woman can sell her body. What is the cost?

A visionary approach to financial accounting could inject the values of fairness and sustainability into standard business practice.

The Republicans, with the exception of a few die-hard libertarians, always do the bidding of the banks that finance them, but the Democrats are just as eager to pig out at the bankers’ trough.