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Workers trying to leave Levi’s Stadium after Super Bowl 50. Gabriel Thompson This article was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute. On Super Bowl Sunday, a few minutes before 7 a.m., I park in a crowded dirt lot behind Avaya Stadium, home to the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team. I’m carrying…
One morning last August I visited Williams College in Massachusetts to teach a workshop on “building a life in the arts” with a group of racially, geographically, and economically diverse young people working at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Later that night I attended a show at the theater, where I saw these idealistic apprentices taking…
Chris Hughes, the soon-to-be-former owner of The New Republic, recently purchased a West Village townhouse for $23.5 million (after unloading his old Soho loft for $8.5 million). According to the New York Post, Hughes’ new lair on West 12th Street boasts, among other amenities, a functional underground tunnel between its main building and a “carriage…
What makes this year more special than any other? This is the year that the very worst class war rhetoric becomes the reality. Oxfam has gotten into the admirable habit of releasing a report about global inequality each year right when the Davos summit is happening, so that the people at Davos have something to…
American politicians constantly speak of the middle class. Democrats, Republicans and even many independents all insist their policies defend it. But what does it really mean? This question is rarely asked. What exactly is the middle class? A new study suggests that the U.S. hardly even has one. More than half of Americans — 56…
Paul Graham is Still Asking to be Eaten An Obviously Critical Response to “Economic Inequality” by Paul Graham robotorgy.tumblr.com I’ve been asked by a bunch of people today to comment on this essay “Economic Inequality,”penned by self-described “essayist” Paul Graham, the subject of a poem I recently wrote entitled, “Paul Graham is Asking to be…
On the executive team at Tim Cook’s Apple Inc., everybody’s equal. Except for Cook himself. The CEO aside, the company awarded its top five executives about $25 million each last year, including $20 million of stock awards and $5 million in salary and cash bonus, according to a proxy statement filed Wednesday. Cook received a…
Who among us has not felt the affront? Macadamia nuts arrive in a bag, not on a dish, and something shrivels in the soul. Are we animals? Did we execute the challenging task of being born insanely wealthy only to eat in-flight snacks from a bag? We did not. And that is why, when Korean…
Clayton Homes has used a pattern of deception to help extract billions from poor customers around the country — particularly people of color, who make up a substantial and growing portion of its business. The company is controlled by Warren Buffett, one of the world’s richest men. Third of a series GALLUP, N.M. — After…
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