French economist Thomas Piketty’s influential work on global inequality offers a powerful framework for understanding today’s disparities. His central premise, that wealth inequality has deep ...

Guy Delisle, Jeff Lemire, Kay Sohini, Joanna Rubin Dranger, Chris Thompson and more have compelling graphic novels based in ...

The controversies over Piketty’s ideas fall into two major categories: his claims about soaring income inequality in the United States and his forecast of an oligarchic future worldwide, unless a ...