Daron Acemoglu told Fortune Donald Trump’s AI policy could jeopardize U.S. democracy. But AI proponents say any regulation ...

Keep up with everything happening in The Commons by signing up for our Philanthropy Today newsletter. I have long maintained that hope is the very oxygen of democracy. Yet today, inequality threatens ...

A ground-breaking research project co-led by a King's College London academic aims to understand how economic inequality is ...

Darren Walker has spent much of his life fighting inequality. From humble beginnings in rural Texas, he went on to lead one of the nation’s most powerful philanthropic institutions. Walker is now ...

He spoke about the 5% wealth tax proposed in California as a starting point.

Demonstrators march outside the U.S. Capitol during the Poor People's Campaign rally at the National Mall in Washington on June 23, 2018. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Economists usually gauge a country’s ...

With back-to-school season in full swing, SUNY Cortland’s Institute for Civic Engagement is out to prove that meaningful chalkboard lessons aren’t limited to the classroom. A “democracy wall,” ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Democracy is at once everywhere and nowhere—on the lips of the masses calling for ...

America is barreling towards authoritarianism at such a breakneck pace that it should alarm every single one of us. But instead of meeting this moment with courage and integrity, the corporate media ...

The principle of equality, while long enshrined in national constitutions and international institutions, remains an unrealized ideal for global humanity. The growing gap between ideal and reality, ...

The United States’ reputation as an exemplar of democracy appears to be eroding. In a poll taken earlier this year, almost three-quarters of U.S. respondents agreed that the country’s democracy “used ...

In an upcoming article entitled “‘Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now’: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader” (Sprong et al., 2019), the authors conducted three empirical ...