IT WAS CAREFULLY PLANNED AND HOW IT UNRAVELED. POLICE SAY THE CRIME TOOK PLACE HERE IN PLAIN SIGHT, RIGHT IN FRONT OF LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR. AND UNDER THESE CAMERAS. ACCORDING TO COURT PAPERS, ...

Middle-class families don’t feel as secure as they once did. It isn’t because the poverty line is “really” $140,000, as Michael Green claimed in a viral essay last year. Yet the impoverished feeling ...

Tenants who get affordable housing through the city’s lottery or a rental assistance voucher often can’t afford amenity fees in new mixed-income luxury buildings, creating what one described as a “two ...

Eve Vincent does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

It’s a story as slick as the gov’s hairdo. Gov. Gavin Newsom has been spinning sob stories about growing up penniless during a strife-filled childhood – but critics are ragging on those rags-to-riches ...

For nearly a year, Tallahassee mourned the closure of dive bar Poor Paul's Pourhouse. But we have good news, the Tallahassee nightlife staple is back open and operating under new ownership. The lively ...

If you’re obsessively refreshing gold charts, cryptocurrency candles, or silver wicks, Robert Kiyosaki wants you to relax. In an X post on Jan. 22, the "Rich Dad Poor Dad" author made it clear: he ...

Oil Rich, Wealth Poor At face value, Venezuela should be immensely wealthy. Its oil reserves outstrip those of Saudi Arabia and the United States combined. But the country's oil exports generated only ...

Venezuela holds the largest proven oil reserves in the world, estimated at roughly 303 billion barrels, yet it consistently earns a fraction of what other major exporters do from crude exports and ...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Wednesday argued that Americans have lost trust in major institutions because powerful executives routinely avoid consequences for their failures, saying "poor people" are ...

GENEVA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Artificial Intelligence could widen gaps between developed and developing countries, a U.N. report said on Tuesday, calling for policy measures to limit the impact. The ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. We are living in a new Gilded Age. The first, from roughly 1870 to 1890, was marked by dramatic ...