Students at five Jefferson County high schools will have the opportunity to win a $5,000 for writing on extreme weather and inequality. The contest is being held by Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Ancient ...

David Plazas is the director of opinion and engagement for the USA TODAY NETWORK Tennessee. At 12:33 a.m. Tuesday, I received an email from an anonymous sender who questioned a point in a 2017 column ...

I see the Minnesota Star Tribune has run its periodic “national debt doesn’t matter” opinion piece on Sunday (“The national debt: You can stop worrying now,” Strib Voices, July 20). This one has the ...

The belief that if you work, you will be able to succeed has fallen in recent years, but a strong 70% majority still believes it is true. Democrats have always been less likely to believe the American ...

Sunday morning coffee and the Star Tribune go hand in hand in our household. Upon opening to the Business section and its executive compensation report July 21, we were met with yet another example of ...

Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at London School of Economics and Fellow in Sociology, Harvard University Evidence from the International Social Survey Programme suggests that people ...

For more than a century written language was seen by anthropologists and other social scientists as a definitional feature of societal complexity or “advancement” (a term that is tinged with ...

Why have many countries had difficulties reducing inequalities and what must be done to change this? How is gender inequality impacting the SDGs? As UN DESA gathered global experts at a recent meeting ...

Global inequality stems not just from what people have and don’t have—but what they're able to do with what they have. “The levels of inequality are horrendous," said Janet Fuentes, an activist from ...