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David Cay JohnstonPhoto Credit: The New Press/Cheryl Amati Martin May 22, 2014 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Long before anyone knew the name Thomas Piketty, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston was plumbing the hidden depths of the American tax code, revealing the myriad ways it privileges the interests of corporations and the wealthy ahead of those of the 99 percent. Despite coming out during the same year as “ Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” and “ The Divide,” Johnston’s newest release, “ Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality,” is a different kind of inequality book. Earlier this week, Salon reached Johnston via telephone to discuss “Divided,” whether American democracy can survive such great economic disparities, and how returning to a more equal society is literally a matter of life and death. What inspired you to create this book? Chomsky, Zinn & more in the 3 part... - Creating Freedom. Clueless Young Billion-Heirs Get Royal Treatment at White House. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com April 22, 2014 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Are you young? The President wants to see you, baby! As economist Thomas Piketty, author of a new blockbuster book on inequality, tours the East Coast warning that America will soon become a place in which inherited wealth means as much — or more — as it did in Downton Abbey Britain, the White House is wasting no time pandering to young people who have grown up in breathtaking privilege.
Like royal courts in time of yore, when the scions of the wealthy would preen and socialize with others of their ilk, todays oligarchs-in-training are coming to DC to see and be seen, to pay and accept tribute. If rich people want to do charity, great. The White House has been fondly known as the "People's House. " Lynn Parramore is an AlterNet senior editor. Daily Kos - WE! ARE! THE NINE PERCENT! Salon - If you think income inequality is horrific now,... Untitled — 100 Years ago there was Slavery So why was Income Inequality Worse? Why American Conservatives Are Suddenly Freaking Out About Guillotines. Photo Credit: American Spectator May 21, 2014 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. On the June cover of the conservative magazine American Spectator, a vision arises from the collective unconscious of the rich. Confiscation, of course, can only mean one thing. In his article, however, James Pierson warns that a revolution is afoot, and that the 99 percent is going to try to punish the rich. “From one point of view, the contemporary era has been a 'gilded age' of regression and reaction due to rising inequality and increasing concentrations of wealth. Above the Law. S6 - INEQUALITY & DEVELOPMENT.
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