“We can either have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both,” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once warned. His concerns ...

24 April 2025 - Economic insecurity, staggering levels of inequality, declining social trust and social fragmentation are destabilizing societies worldwide. The World Social Report 2025, released ...

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The debate over standardized testing often centers on fairness, but it overlooks a more fundamental issue: unequal access to preparation. Unsplash+ On March 14, millions of high school students sat ...

A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia’s role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities. By Alan Blinder American colleges and universities bear ...

Vice President JD Vance said that the American negotiating team was leaving Pakistan after 21 hours of talks with no peace deal with Iran. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/Getty Images Iran survived five ...

Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report, ...

Kiara Taylor has worked as a financial analyst for more than a decade. Her career has involved a number of financial firms, including Fifth Third Bank, JPMorgan, and Citibank. She has filled a number ...

Katharine Paljug is a financial writer and editor with over a decade of industry experience. Her writing has covered nearly every aspect of the financial world, from investing in forex to paying for ...