Sam Pizzigati

Sam Pizzigati writes on inequality for the Institute for Policy Studies. His latest book: The Case for a Maximum Wage (Polity). Among his other books on maldistributed income and wealth: The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970  (Seven Stories Press). 

Will the Current Musk Coup Define Our Future?

The Super Bowl and the Super Rich: Partners in Slime

Does a Roaring Twenties Boom Now Beckon?

What Americans Now Need Most: A Farewell to Grand Fortune

Of the Plutocrats, By the Plutocrats, For the Plutocrats

What Would Surprise America’s Rich in 2025? Not Getting Richer

Ghastly Glimpses of America’s Most Rich-People-Friendly Year

The Public Anger at Corporate Health has Never Been Higher

Anger Explodes at Health Care CEOs

In Baku, at the Latest Global Confab on Climate, Hand-Wringing Abounds

No Time To Play Just Defense

One Person, One Vote, One Joke…on Democracy

Can America’s ‘Self-Made’ Men Make a President?

How Did Elon Musk Become the Richest Person on Earth?

Two Words That Haunt So Many Hurricane Victims: “Claim Denied”

Must Higher Education Always Genuflect Before America’s Highest Incomes?

The Only Real Shortcut to Long-Term Security: Greater Equality

Could 2025 End Up a Nightmare for Our Tax-Averse Rich?

Are You Ready for Some Private Equity Football?

On Our Climate-Challenged Planet, Only Some Deaths Seem to Matter

A World Without Artworks That Auction Off for $80 Million?

Today’s Young Mega-Millionaires Just Want to Have Fun

Private Fortunes vs. Public Education

The Coming Tax-the-Rich Rumble in Rio

From the UK, a New Reminder Why Inequality Must Go

A Practical Prescription for Taxing Our World’s Richest

In France, a Bold New Take on ‘Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité’

U.S. CEOs are Bequeathing Us a Frightfully Unequal Future

For the Rich, One Nation Isn’t Rolling Out the Red Carpet

Can Democracy and Billionaires Coexist?

From Massachusetts, Some Tax-the-Rich Inspiration

The Toughest Job Today’s Richest Ever Face?

Could the UN Actually Lead a Charge to Tax the World’s Rich?

The Well-Heeled and Our Personal Well-Being

Some People Have All the Luck

Are the Flat Tax Folks Winning…or Have They Already Won?

Mass Layoffs Have Our Rich Thriving … and Workers Writhing

To Trim Our Richest Down to Democratic Size, We Need to Think Big

Shouldn’t Every American Enjoy the Luxury of a Roof?

Coming Soon to a Mansion Near You: A Tax on Over-the-Top Greed Grabs

For America’s Wealthy, a Sweet Start to Our 21st Century

The Gilded Age Then, the Gilded Age Now

Can Brazil Convince the World to Tax Billionaire Wealth?

Do High Taxes on the Rich Make Any Sense?

The Next Billionaire Thing: Hunting Humans?

New Hope for a Check on CEO Compensation

The Penalty for Exposing How Our Plutocracy Operates? Five Years Behind Bars

Must We Limit the Wealthy’s Wealth?

What’s Driving Our Epidemic of Distrust?

The Rich Who Own the Home Next Door