Annie Lowrey
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters The Rich Are Different From You and Me. They Pay Less in Taxes.
Very rich Americans play by different rules than the merely well-off and the working poor. Joe Biden’s tax plan wouldn’t do much to change that.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Bill That Could Make California Livable Again
S.B. 50 would make the state denser, cheaper, greener, and more affordable.
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Mel Evans / AP The College Wealth Premium Has Collapsed
Younger folks have come of age during an era of consumer debt.
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Elizabeth Shafiroff / Reuters The Decade in Which Everything Was Great But Felt Terrible
In the 2010s America achieved late capitalism.
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Sutiporn Somnam / Getty The Environmental Catastrophe in Your Joint
“Trespass grows,” which feed the marijuana black market, do great damage to the planet.
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Tim Wimborne / Reuters America’s Epidemic of Unkindness
A new research institute at UCLA wants to start a virtuous cycle of generosity and do-gooding.
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The Image Bank / Getty Tax the Patriarchy
The U.S. tax code helps entrench gender divisions. It doesn’t have to be that way.
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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters The Human Cost of Chicken Farming
Industrial efficiency has led to plentiful, cheap meat and eggs, while immiserating farmers.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters The Inflation Gap
A new analysis indicates that rising prices have been quietly taxing low-income families more heavily than rich ones.
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Gene Blevins / Reuters California Is Becoming Unlivable
The state is plagued by two major issues: wildfires and a lack of affordable housing. Each problem exacerbates the other.
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Erin Scott / Reuters Don’t Trust Facebook
The Libra project could help the global poor. But at what cost?
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Paul Taylor / Getty $350,000 a Year, and Just Getting By
Financial confessionals reveal that income inequality and geographic inequality have normalized absurd spending patterns.
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Noah Berger / AP Alone in the Dark in the Bay Area
People were on their own as their homes and businesses lost power.
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Ian Langsdon / Reuters Cancel Billionaires
Wealth inequality hurts society.
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Mark Lennihan / AP Curse of the Cult of the Founder
Brilliant, brash founders such as WeWork’s Adam Neumann may waste investors’ money, flout regulations, and put workers at risk.
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Beck Diefenbach / Reuters What’s Different About the Impossible Burger?
Plant-based-food entrepreneurs are marketing their meatless products to omnivores.
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Nick Starichenko / Shutterstock Her Only Crime Was Helping Her Kids
Kelley Williams-Bolar, like Felicity Huffman, was punished for trying to get her children a better education.
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Mike Blake / Reuters When I Took My Zipcar Into the Wilderness
In an area without cellphone reception, I was unable to open the car.
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Beck Diefenbach/Reuters For members: Trump’s big housing reform, Jay-Z’s NFL deal, Impossible Burger in grocery stores
Atlantic writers look ahead at their beats.
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Scott Morgan / Reuters The People Who Think Bernie Is Moderate
To socialist candidates, even the left-most Democrat isn’t left enough.
