In New York City, 45 billionaires live cheek-by-jowl with 1.6 million people who live in poverty. Progressives since Jacob Riis have seen the urban juxtaposition of wealth and poverty as a flaw of New ...

In his book, “The Leviathan,” philosopher Thomas Hobbes described what human life would be without a social contract binding people together: “nasty, brutish and short.” Joseph Williams, in a recent ...

A great deal of confusion surrounds America’s extreme inequality, what causes this inequality, and how we can check and then reverse it. That needn’t be. Ultimately, economic inequality comes down to ...

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission has enacted new rules intended to eliminate discrimination in access to internet services, a move which regulators are calling the first major U.S.

Vouchers, charter schools and other school-choice programs might not make America's schools any more segregated and unequal than they are today, according to a new study. The reason? Today's public ...

These rules are not discriminatory on their face. Yet when layered on top of deep inequalities in the labor market, they have discriminatory effects-;and we need to be anticipating and avoiding those ...

The income gap between rich and the poor Americans is the highest it has been in nearly 100 years, but the racial inequality gap is even wider. From high school graduates to graduate degree holders, ...