Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigMar 18, 2015
Work by social psychologist Paul Piff suggests that the more money people have, the more likely they are to cheat or put their needs before those of others. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigNov 24, 2014
A key part of Wall Street's $300 million expenditure on the recent midterm elections is the goal of moving as much of working Americans' $3 trillion that sits in unguarded government pension funds into "privately managed, high-fee investments" as possible. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 8, 2014
Avarice has become widely accepted in today's world; violinists prefer new instruments to old, prized ones in a blind test; meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald reveals that information similar to the Cuban Twitter scandal appears throughout the Snowden files. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigFeb 27, 2014
Nonpartisan watchdog Good Jobs First just released a study showing that federal, state and local officials have awarded $63 billion in subsidies to Fortune 500 companies alone. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 12, 2013
According to the managing editor of Time magazine, Pope Francis was chosen to grace the cover of its 2013 Person of the Year issue because he "changed the tone and the perception and the focus of one of the world's largest institutions in an extraordinary way." But perhaps his most significant contribution this year has been his condemnation of greed and materialism. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigDec 3, 2013
The pope's appraisal of modern capitalism is the obvious truth, whether divinely inspired or not. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigDec 3, 2013
Christianity has often been used over the centuries to prop up the powerful. But from the beginning, the Christian message has been subversive of political systems, judgmental toward those at the top, and demanding of all who take it seriously. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake TribuneDec 2, 2013Dig deeper
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