Sam Pizzigati

The world's super-duper rich, in the new Forbes magazine count, total just over 1,000 — and hold more wealth than half of humanity.

The White House wants to require firms that do business with the government to pay decent wages. That could work — if we go after all pay that's indecent.

Deep down in our lobes, says new research from an international scientific team, sits a basic tilt toward fairness.

To really reform big bank behavior, we need to scuttle the pay system that 'entitles' Wall Streeters to however much loot they can grab.

The new conservative 'Mount Vernon Statement' unveiled last week claims that right-wingers are upholding what the Generation of 1776 held dear. But those right-wingers, history shows, are conveniently overlooking what the Founders truly feared.

Never before in modern American history, suggests a new look at America's highest 400 incomes from the IRS, have so few made so much at the expense of so many. Or paid so precious little in taxes.

The British already have universal health care. So why do average life expectancies in the UK vary so dramatically by neighborhood? A new UK blue-ribbon commission has some answers to questions that Americans ought to be asking.

In contemporary American political life, only the rich can afford to be politically impatient. The big question: How long will the rest of us tolerate such a starkly unrepresentative status quo?