I was putting the finishing touches on a video essay when I first heard the news about George Floyd. Titled “The Original Ending: The Last Acts of Black Horror Heroes,” it is a multi-screen ...

Venture capitalist Paul Graham has written a lengthy essay on the value of increasing income inequality — at least the kind that comes from founding startup firms that generate consumer-relevant value ...

Actress and activist Angelina Jolie has written a powerful essay for TIME Magazine in response to United Nations concerns that "gains on gender equality risk being reversed by decades" due to the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality,” the piece reads. “It ...

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century Request reprint permissions here. World War II devastated the economic infrastructures of ...

At the dawn of 2020, our world was already in crisis. High and rising economic inequality meant that someone born with few resources could see their basic human rights, like food and decent housing, ...

From a global perspective, the most distinctive characteristic of American higher education is its heterogeneity. While higher education in almost every other country is public and fairly homogeneous ...

Much has been written about the relationship between inequality and economic development, but theory remains inconclusive. When income is more concentrated in the hands of a few individuals, this can ...