A groundbreaking international study of 161,981 participants across 40 countries published in Nature Medicine reveals that air pollution, social inequality, and weak democratic institutions ...

Keep up with everything happening in The Commons by signing up for our Philanthropy Today newsletter. I have long maintained that hope is the very oxygen of democracy. Yet today, inequality threatens ...

The following is a Q&A discussion about Jonathan Kozol’s new book, We Shall Not Bow Down Children of Color Under Siege: An Invocation to Resistance, published by Seven Stories Press. 1) You have long ...

I have a birthday coming up, so it seems a good time to assess progress, or lack thereof, on the various issues that I have worked on over the decades. There is some big progress in at least a couple ...

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“We can either have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both,” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once warned. His concerns ...

In an upcoming article entitled “‘Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now’: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader” (Sprong et al., 2019), the authors conducted three empirical ...

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California's grotesque level of income and wealth inequality is an issue that we can no longer ignore and that we must ...

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The recently concluded Global Progressive Mobilisation meeting held in Barcelona last month brought together political leaders, policymakers, and activists from around the world, united by a shared ...