Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit back at critics and defended her upbringing as her Yorktown High School past resurfaced ...

Plato identified inequality as a central problem of politics. Inequality, this ancient Greek philosopher warned, undermines ...

As Congress debates tax cuts and safety-net reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill, a major line of attack against the proposal is that it would worsen inequality ... much over the last three decades ...

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have a compelling new data point to add to the nature vs. nurture debate about ...

Social stratification explains how class, status, and power shape life chances from access to education and healthcare to career opportunities and social mobility. This simplified breakdown shows how ...

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 ...

Colosseum. Credit: Featured pics/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0. For a long time, the ancient empires of Rome and China’s Han dynasty have fascinated historians and archaeologists. These two powerful ...

They fear the angst of intergenerational inequality unravelling our very social fabric. Finn Lindgren is 23-years-old, a young voter with a university degree and a healthy salary.

The more people live in a city, the greater the wealth of the urban elite and the greater the social inequality. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology have identified this ...

This pursuit of an unattainable aesthetic can result in increased dissatisfaction with common skin conditions like hyperpigmentation and keloids, which are often misrepresented in edited photos.

Social inequality is bad for business. In an ideal world, we’d tackle social inequality just because it’s the right thing to do. But sometimes we can’t agree “on the right thing ...

How does poverty differ from economic inequality? Poverty is usually defined as not having the means to support basic nutrition, access to safe drinking water, shelter, education, and other needs.