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Extreme Inequality Created the World Jeffrey Epstein Exploited

As we watch the wave of revelations from the Epstein files engulf our politics and the powerful, toppling royalty and other elites from their exalted positions, one question keeps surfacing — why did...

Weaving a good society on the bedrock of equality

Most of us can sense it.  Society feels off-kilter.  Progress on the big issues seems to have stalled, and any optimism that life will be better for our children, and for safe stewardship of our...

Inequality and health: Lost in the mists of time?

Inequality has a profoundly negative effect on health and wellbeing, write Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Not because it suddenly kills, but because it slowly reshapes how people live, relate...

Building Global Consensus Beyond GDP

What if, instead of measuring progress by the size of our economies, we measured it by how well people and the planet are actually doing?...