What Barack Obama wants to do is financial profiling. And in its way it's philosophically as intellectually and morally indefensible as racial profiling.
Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Who amongst us can say we're actually doing the hard work of being an American?
Isha Judd | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living
It seems that no matter what we achieve, it is never enough. There is always something more. Got the car of your dreams? Now you need two.
Larry Gellman | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
We have never been more reliant on the generosity of others and less able to act like grown-ups and fend for ourselves than any time since the Revolution.
Jane Devin | Posted 08.01.2009 | Entertainment
Why do we so often scramble to make excuses for the bad acts of celebrities when we wouldn't do the same for our neighbors?
Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
A connection has been made. A connection clearly seen between a young generation here in the United States and a young generation of Iranians who have taken to the streets.
Matt Weinstein | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living
Some genuine "wealth" in our lives is always created when we reach out to each other, when we make connections with each other, when we form a community together in times of crisis.
Stephen Herrington | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
Private business is no better at running anything than the government. Yes, the private medical insurers should be afraid -- government can kick their ass.
Les Leopold | Posted 07.07.2009 | Business
This shift in wealth in America since the 1970s created an unholy cycle of more lobbying for more benefits for the super-rich and large corporations, who in turn paid for even more lobbying -- a cycle that still is in full motion.
Nicholas Carlson | Posted 07.06.2009 | Style
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has acquired for himself a simple country abode: the Irma Lake Lodge, a $9 million, 492-acre Wyoming ranch. We have the pics here.
McClatchy | Frank Greve | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- When Jody Richards saw a homeless man begging outside a downtown McDonald's recently, he bought the man a cheeseburger. There's nothing ...
Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 06.24.2009 | World
Rich people have an uncanny ability to oppose aid for everybody but themselves.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
The data doesn't lie: sickness and poverty have grown together during the last few decades. We now have a chance to turn the tables and foster health and wealth.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business
Debate continues to swirl around Obama's idea of what it means to be rich. Though no matter what, those who earn two and a half large are by any estimation swimming in it.
John Morton | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living
Giving and receiving coexist. They're polarities on the same continuum. One requires the other in order for either to occur. Often they occur in cycles.
Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.09.2009 | Comedy
Please write back to fill me in on the scandalous details and to arrange to send all of your money to my bank account here in the United States
Juliette Powell | Posted 05.07.2009 | Media
If your moral duty is to serve your neighbor and anyone else who is in need, then you don't have the moral right to pursue your own life and happiness.
Juliette Powell | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media
Is Colbert, and the media in general, taking a cheap shot -- going for the easy laugh using Rand's philosophy of selfishness -- or are they using humor and irony to open a much needed public debate?
Jeff Dorchen | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Please, go right ahead, underestimate the power of human beings to live without you golden gods who inhabit the penthouses of the world.
Stinson Carter | Posted 04.24.2009 | Living
We've always heard that rich and happy aren't the same thing, but its been a while since we've been forced to prove it.
Peter Daou | Posted 04.20.2009 | Living
The moment you are on sound financial footing, it is incumbent upon you to devote a good portion of your time and resources to helping others who don't share that privilege.
Quinn Bradlee | Posted 04.18.2009 | Living
The thing about being wealthy is that whenever I have parties, I never think that my friends are there just because they want to see me.
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 04.05.2009 | Living
When the stock market, your 401K, the value of your home all sink into an abyss, perhaps you should say, "Feng Shui it!"
Jim Wallis | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
My prediction is that many in the faith community, especially those on the front lines of serving the poor, will rally around the principles and priorities of this budget.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
The wealth of the past 10-15 years was illusory. The markets have in fact dropped back to where they "should" be.
Adam Hanft | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics