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A recent poll by the Social Research Foundation, a think thank, found that 60% of South Africans thought the government of national unity was working well. It also reported that support for the unity government’s anchor political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA), had risen…

The author of Capital returns with a short book on inequality that asks big questions

Allowing more competition in the economy would naturally reduce the wealth share of the top 1% and also benefit the wider economy

Explore the works of renowned intellectuals like Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, and Thomas Piketty across diverse fields.

Keating is still pushing the same barrows he was in the 1990s, including brazenly unequal tax policy. He is not a prophet; he is a fossil.

Editorial: Growing private wealth, combined with public austerity, is undermining the health of western democracies

Labour party couldn’t ‘sell’ the tax in the last election but the policy won’t fade away as global concern over wealth inequality deepens

Millennia-spanning takes on history, evolution and economics are booming. But who buys these ‘grand theory’ books? And do they actually read them?

European far-right leaders celebrate success of Wilders’ Party for Freedom, which has won 37 seats. Plus, welcome to the world of gossip surveillance