Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Josie Cox is a New York-based journalist covering business and gender. Nov 03, 2025, 12:15am EST Bilingual sign on door of frozen ...

Imagine society as a ladder with 10 rungs. Where would you place yourself? That answer reflects your subjective social status—where you see yourself in society. Importantly, this is not necessarily ...

Political commentators, academics and others have been wringing their hands over threats to democracy in recent years. A new study helps us better understand one of the possible driving forces behind ...

People around the world see various factors as contributing to economic inequality in their country: A median of 60% across 36 countries say that rich people having too much political influence leads ...

The COVID-19 pandemic appears likely to worsen inequalities in an enduring way, further widening the gap between haves and have-nots in advanced economies and reversing progress in developing ...

A certain kind of politician loves to rail about income inequality and the corporate greed and injustice that supposedly cause it. It won’t surprise anyone who’s ever held a job in the private economy ...

If we’re not careful, we could see widening gaps within countries and between them. Prominent AI researchers expect the arrival of artificial general intelligence anywhere between “the next couple of ...

Global inequalities are in bad shape and mostly do not appear to be getting better. Disparities today are about the same as they were in the early 20th century, and the pandemic continues to make ...

Concordia University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Universitié Concordia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. The COVID-19 pandemic ...

How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion ...

Remote work has exploded since the pandemic struck, and employees like it. In speaking to hundreds of managers about this development, one concern crops up again and again: The shift to remote work is ...