"BUSINESS & ECONOMICS." . . "økonomisk ulighed" . . "Sociology." . . "Molly Crabapple" . . "SOCIAL SCIENCE General." . . . . "Business." . . "POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National." . . "Justice." . . "Economic history." . . "Social justice United States." . . "rigdom" . . "SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness." . . "Politics." . . "social ulighed" . . "BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General." . . "Since 2009" . . "økonomiske kriser" . . "Wealth." . . "Income distribution." . . "Poor." . . "Social justice." . . "United States." . . "United States" . "fattigdom" . . "retfærdighed" . . "finanskriser" . . "Politics and government" . . "POLITICAL SCIENCE American Government National." . . "USA" . . "Sociological jurisprudence." . . "Poor United States." . . "retsvæsen" . . "Rich people." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "\"Matt Taibbi's genius is in untangling complex stories and making us care about them by providing striking moral clarity and a genuine sense of outrage. He has become among the most read journalists in America, leading the dialogue with epic Rolling Stone pieces that offer an \"almost startling reminder of the power of good writing\" (Washington Post). In this new work, he once again takes readers into the biggest, most urgent story in America: a widening wealth gap that is not only reshaping our economic life, but changing our core sense of right and wrong. The wealthy 1% operate with near impunity, while everyone else finds their very existence the subject of massive law enforcement attention: from stop-and-frisk programs and the immigrant dragnet to invasive surveillance and the abuse of debtors. Driven by immersive reporting, this is a stunning look into the newest high-stakes divide in our country: between a lawless aristocracy of hyperwealth and the rest of us, living under the shadow of an incipient American police state\"--"@en . "\"Matt Taibbi's genius is in untangling complex stories and making us care about them by providing striking moral clarity and a genuine sense of outrage. He has become among the most read journalists in America, leading the dialogue with epic Rolling Stone pieces that offer an \"almost startling reminder of the power of good writing\" (Washington Post). In this new work, he once again takes readers into the biggest, most urgent story in America: a widening wealth gap that is not only reshaping our economic life, but changing our core sense of right and wrong. The wealthy 1% operate with near impunity, while everyone else finds their very existence the subject of massive law enforcement attention: from stop-and-frisk programs and the immigrant dragnet to invasive surveillance and the abuse of debtors. Driven by immersive reporting, this is a stunning look into the newest high-stakes divide in our country: between a lawless aristocracy of hyperwealth and the rest of us, living under the shadow of an incipient American police state\"--" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . "The divide : American injustice in the age of the wealth gap"@en . "The divide : American injustice in the age of the wealth gap" . . "The divide American injustice in the age of the wealth gap"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "\"Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world's wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail. In search of a solution, journalist Matt Taibbi discovered the Divide, the seam in American life where our two most troubling trends--growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration--come together, driven by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty. The Divide is what allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a crime--but it's impossible to see until you look at these two alarming trends side by side. In The Divide, Matt Taibbi takes readers on a galvanizing journey through both sides of our new system of justice--the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. He uncovers the startling looting that preceded the financial collapse; a wild conspiracy of billionaire hedge fund managers to destroy a company through dirty tricks; and the story of a whistleblower who gets in the way of the largest banks in America, only to find herself in the crosshairs. On the other side of the Divide, Taibbi takes us to the front lines of the immigrant dragnet; into the newly punitive welfare system which treats its beneficiaries as thieves; and deep inside the stop-and-frisk world, where standing in front of your own home has become an arrestable offense. As he narrates these incredible stories, he draws out and analyzes their common source: a perverse new standard of justice, based on a radical, disturbing new vision of civil rights. Through astonishing--and enraging--accounts of the high-stakes capers of the wealthy and nightmare stories of regular people caught in the Divide's punishing logic, Taibbi lays bare one of the greatest challenges we face in contemporary American life: surviving a system that devours the lives of the poor, turns a blind eye to the destructive crimes of the wealthy, and implicates us all\"--"@en . . . "\"Matt Taibbi's genius is in untangling complex stories and making us care about them by providing striking moral clarity and a genuine sense of outrage. He has become among the most read journalists in America, leading the dialogue with epic Rolling Stone pieces that offer an \"almost startling reminder of the power of good writing\" (Washington Post). In this new work, he once again takes readers into the biggest, most urgent story in America: a widening wealth gap that is not only reshaping our economic life, but changing our core sense of right and wrong. The wealthy 1% operate with near impunity, while everyone else finds their very existence the subject of massive law enforcement attention: from stop-and-frisk programs and the immigrant dragnet to invasive surveillance and the abuse of debtors. Driven by immersive reporting, this is a stunning look into the newest high-stakes divide in our country: between a lawless aristocracy of hyperwealth and the rest of us, living under the shadow of an incipientAmerican police state\"--"@en . "THE DIVIDE : AMERICAN INJUSTICE IN THE AGE OF THE WEALTH GAP"@en . . . "America's muckraking moral conscience takes on his most important story yet. Written with forensic zeal and righteous rage, this is an exploration of an unprecedented wealth gap that is not just changing the U.S.'s economic life, but transforming the meaning of rights, justice, and basic citizenship." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Nonfiction." . . "National." . . "Wealth United States." . . 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