How Economic Inequality Kills
Economic inequality—as a political cause, as an issue of social and moral concern, as a subject of academic research—is at long last, having its moment. World leaders from President Obama to Pope...
View ArticleThe IMF (Finally) Admits That Inequality Slows Growth
The most important inequality-related news of the week was the release of a new IMF report that found that lower inequality is correlated with faster growth. This marked an amazing reversal. The IMF...
View ArticleWhy We Need International Women’s Day
Tomorrow, March 8, is International Women’s Day. The earliest Women’s Day celebrations were organized in the early twentieth century by commie firebrand types like Germany’s Clara Zetkin and Russia’s...
View ArticleTech-Sector Neoliberalism Isn’t the Answer to America’s Inequality Problem
Eric Schmidt is the chairman of Google. Last year, he raked in compensation totaling over $100 million from the company, adding to his net worth of over $8 billion. According to The New York Times,...
View ArticleHow Economic Populism Is Transforming the Most Unequal Region of the Globe
“Chile has but one great enemy, and its name is inequality. Only together can we take it on.” With those words, Michelle Bachelet returned to the presidency of Chile this week. The Socialist leader has...
View ArticleIn Praise of the Utopian Political Imagination
The big inequality news this week has been the publication of Thomas Piketty’s monumental book about the subject, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. I weighed in with my review in The Washington...
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Does Feminism Have a Class Problem?
Welcome to The Curve, where feminists talk economics. Twice a month at this site, we will feature a roundtable on a topic of feminist concern, with Kathleen Geier as your host. The Curve’s...
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Will the Democratic Party Deliver for Working Women?
Democrats have made women’s issues—specifically, women’s kitchen-table economic issues—a centerpiece of their stump speeches heading into the 2014 midterm elections. In the wake of the last election,...
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What Do the Recent Supreme Court Decisions Mean for Women’s Economic Security?
In the final days of its 2013–14 term, the Supreme Court handed down three rulings of major consequence for women. In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, a 5-4 majority held that requiring some for-profit...
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How Gender Changes Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’
In this installment of The Curve, we asked our contributors to examine Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. If economic inequality continues to soar, as Piketty says it will, and...
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How to End the Criminalization of America’s Mothers
Nightmarish stories about about the criminalizing of motherhood have been making headlines of late. There was Shanesha Taylor, arrested on child abuse charges for leaving her kids in a car to go to a...
View ArticleWho’s Ready for Hillary?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Hillary Clinton’s 2016 candidacy casts a bright light on every fissure within the modern Democratic Party. From domestic policy during the first Clinton presidency to foreign policy...
View ArticleBernie’s Greatest Weakness
In politics, few experiences are more unpleasant than being roasted by your allies. Just ask Bernie Sanders, who has spent the past week getting thoroughly barbecued by the left. First, his...
View ArticleWe Asked 4 Prominent Bernie Supporters if They’d Vote for Hillary in...
Late last month, Susan Sarandon sparked a heated debate among Bernie Sanders supporters about whether, in the event of their candidate’s loss in the contest for the Democratic nomination, it would be...
View ArticleInequality Among Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary’s Loss
Attempts to explain what the hell happened on Tuesday have been coming fast and furious. Hillary Clinton was touted by her supporters as the most qualified candidate ever to run for president. How...
View ArticleWhat Happens to a Feminist Dream Deferred?
It had seemed so appropriate, back in October, that the first woman president would be elected by triumphing over a misogynist ogre recorded boasting to a near-stranger about his precise tactics for...
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