The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent ...

Are we all political animals? Aristotle thought so. Politics, he believed, was the art of the possible, but extremes of ...

Wherever you live these days, you’re likely seeing plenty of evidence that political polarization is increasing all around you. Some of this polarization is reinforcing conventional left-right fault ...

Growing dissatisfaction among the population, loss of trust in politics, increase in crime and violence: Economic inequality leads to a variety of social consequences. Nevertheless, the issue plays a ...

The new World Inequality Report 2026 brings out alarming statistics about the state of inequality in India and across the world – and how that could change if the political will exists. The Wire is ...

A State Revenue Alliance report details other progressive tax wins in 2025, including property tax increases on high-value ...

Even among 2024 Trump voters, a plurality (34 percent) felt that taxes on billionaires were too low, while just 12 percent ...

According to the survey, a median of 54% of adults across the countries polled see the wealth gap as a very big problem, while an additional 30% consider the issue moderately big. There is also a wide ...

The Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz will continue to receive funding through the German Excellence Strategy for another seven years. The German ...

In response to the disproportionate influence of the well-off that I document in Affluence & Influence some have argued that policy reflects (and perhaps should reflect) the preferences of the ...

Most people think economic inequality is a big problem for their country, and see the excessive political sway of the rich as the leading cause, according to a report by the Pew Research Center. In a ...

Despite numerous policy interventions since apartheid, South Africa remains the world's most unequal nation, with racial ...