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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Young People Don’t Care About the U.S.S.R.
Older people still see socialism and communism as dangerous, authoritarian political systems, whereas younger people are more likely to see them as economic systems, and to care far less one way or another.
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Mark Felix / AFP / Getty Just How Rich Is Michael Bloomberg?
Imagine Yankee Stadium filled with individuals worth $1 million each; Bloomberg is richer than all of them combined.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Berniephobes Are Wrong
Wall Street fears the rise of the Vermont senator. The rest of America has less to worry about.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Great Affordability Crisis Breaking America
In one of the best decades the American economy has ever recorded, families were bled dry.
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Associated Press Trump Didn’t Make This Economy
The low unemployment rate, decent wage growth, and solid corporate earnings are all artifacts of a long expansion, not signs that a very stable genius in the White House has unleashed American enterprise.
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Contributor / Getty What Do Wolfdogs Want?
The animals are a human creation. They belong neither in homes nor in the wild.
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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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