社会不平等

流行病学家理查德·威尔金森与社会心理学家保罗·皮夫就经济与社会不平等对人类的影响展开对话，探讨财富是否会让人变得冷漠自私，贫困是否会损害人的身心健康。

Congressman Jim McGovern makes an impassioned plea for lawmakers from both sides of the political divide to end hunger in America. It’s totally do-able, he says.

In today’s “need to know” stories, the Metropolitan Museum of Art releases 400,000 high-resolution digital images of pieces from its collection, an economist reminds us of the two types of inequality at work in society, and a sobering report on the cost of modern slavery.

“We’re in this exciting moment where we’ve had 40 years of being ‘tough on crime,’ and we’ve finally come to recognize that it really hasn’t worked very well,” says sociologist Alice Goffman bluntly. America needs to think differently.

We asked an international group of 12 artists, designers, photographers and activists to provide one image that encapsulates what inequality means to them — and to explain their selection. The results are stunning and thought-provoking. Warning: some of them might make you cry.

When Brenda Romero wants to understand something complicated, she makes a game. Her two latest games explore the rules of inequality.