Hundreds of top economists and other experts, including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, called on Friday for the ...

Many young people in Mexico say they are frustrated with systemic problems that plague the nation, including corruption and impunity for violent crimes.

UChicago political scientist Susan C. Stokes analyzes the current moment while offering solutions to a polarized public ...

Meritocracy is a modern “myth” that perpetuates inequality, blocks opportunity, and harms the common good, a professor argued ...

WASHINGTON - The latest U.S. Census Bureau data reveals persistent income inequality and racial earnings disparities in ...

Paris Agreement could have been a turning point. It posited a world in which all countries – the wealthy and the rest – would ...

More than 500 economists and other leading experts, including a Nobel laureate and a former United States treasury secretary, ...

Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz warns that unchecked inequality is pushing America toward economic and political peril.

In Francesco Duina's latest collection, The Social Acceptance of Inequality: On the Logics of a More Unequal World (Oxford ...

A 2 percent wealth tax is like shaving off a fraction of a spire from a large cathedral, says economist Nancy Folbre.

Land inequality is growing worldwide, threatening the livelihoods of 2.5 billion people who directly rely on farming and ...

In ‘The Queer Thing About Sin’ (Bloomsbury Continuum, Jan.), the classicist argues that ancient history reveals a connection ...