I used to think information technology would change everything. Like many back in the late 1990s, I was convinced the Internet and the growing use of computers could play a major role in leveling the ...

For most of recorded history, and even before there was a means to record, civilization formed class divides based on access to and accumulation of resources. The top cavemen had an abundance of brute ...

In 1982, the American economy was in recession: 30-year fixed-rate home mortgage interest rates were 16 percent, the unemployment rate was at a post-WWII high of 10.8 percent, and construction and ...

In 1934, Kirk Douglas (yes, that Kirk) hitchhiked with a friend up to St. Lawrence University. Douglas couldn’t afford the tuition given his family’s impoverished circumstances, but he brought his ...

Regarding the report, “Survey points to social class divide among Singaporeans” (Dec 28), I would like to say that what the survey revealed, which is that people are mixing more with those in the same ...

The City of London’s yawning class divide threatens its productivity and competitiveness, according to a report that criticized the sector as “deeply unrepresentative of the wider UK population.” Just ...