Subject: Inequality

The remarkable life of a lawyer at the forefront of civil and human rights since the 1960sBy the time he was 26, Michael Tigar was a legend in legal circles well before he would take on some of the...

How India's COVID-19 lockdown is creating an unprecedented humanitarian disasterWith the advent of COVID-19, India’s rulers imposed the world’s most stringent lockdown on an already depressed economy,...

A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth century North America—most likely in New...

A World Turned Upside Down? poses two overarching questions for the new period opened by the Trump election and the continued growth of right-wing nationalisms. Is there an unwinding of neoliberal globalization...

An analysis of the mythologies that influence the American legal system“Mythologies,” writes veteran human rights lawyer Michael Tigar, “are structures of words and images that portray people,...

Chronicles how American culture - deeply rooted in white supremacy, slavery and capitalism - finds its origin story in the 17th century European colonization of Africa and North America, exposing the...

That education should instill and nurture democracy is an American truism. Yet organizations such as the Business Roundtable, together with conservative philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Walmart’s...

A deconstruction of the neoliberal placations about global capitalism, exposing the inequalities of global poverty“We’re making headway on global poverty,” trills Bill Gates. “Decline of Global...