When men share domestic work equally everyone wins -- their kids, their partners and the entire society. The Lily published a story chronicling mothers whose careers are taking a back seat to ...

In all seriousness, though, that low number raises an interesting question: should government policy actually focus less on decreasing inequality? “If everybody else is rising then really, in this ...

One of the most provocative — and most disturbing — of this year's economics books is "The Great Leveler." Its historian/author Walter Scheidel argues that economic inequality is not only inevitable, ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. In spite of the global economic turbulence of recent years, many countries in the ...

According to Siphokazi Mthathi, executive director of Oxfam South Africa – an organisation masquerading as a poverty-relief charity – capitalism is a “crime against humanity”. She was reportedly ...

Inequality is a cancer on society, here in the U.S. and across the globe. It keeps growing. But humanity seems helpless against it, as if it’s an alien force that no one understands, even as the life ...

A Vox reader asks: What is wealth inequality and class warfare and why is it extra bad at this point in time? “Wealth” is someone’s net worth — that is, their assets (like savings, stock portfolios, ...