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What If Climate Change and Rising Nationalism Both Had the Same Solution?

Countries riven by inequality and xenophobia won't be resilient to climate change—which means that the fight against nationalism and the fight against global warming are actually one and the same.

Louise Fabiani

News in Brief

Talking About White Privilege Can Reduce Liberals’ Sympathy for Poor White People

New research finds that social liberals who read about the phenomenon are subsequently less forgiving toward poor whites.

Tom Jacobs

In Joanne Ramos’ ‘The Farm,’ Life Is Money

In her debut novel, Ramos depicts a circle of women optimized to serve as surrogates for the super-rich.

Rebecca Stoner

Economics

How Overconfidence Among the Upper Classes Is Hampering Social Mobility

New research finds that high self-regard can come across as competence to potential employers.

Tom Jacobs

Smartphones Are Changing How Homeless People Survive

Middle-class pedestrians sometimes think an iPhone is a luxury for a poor person. In fact, that device can help them find resources, health care, and community.

Tony Hackett

The Artful Dodger introduces Oliver to Fagin in this detail from an original George Cruikshank engraving for Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, ca. 1839.

How the Criminal Underworld Was Invented by the Middle and Upper Classes

In his latest book, French historian Dominique Kalifa investigates how mainstream representations of poverty have been used for centuries to harm the poor.

Noah Berlatsky