'Supreme Inequality' Makes A Case That The Top U.S. Court Has Widened The Wealth Gap
"It did not have to be this way, and there was a time when it was not," Adam Cohen writes in his introduction to Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America.
America could have top notch, racially integrated schools, a criminal justice system that hadn't ballooned to the world's largest by locking up generations of black and brown people, a political system that wasn't suffocating in money, and a legal system that valued individuals over big business. Today, though, the likelihood of implementing such a vision looks dim.
Cohen, in his new book, explores the Court's opinions over the last five decades and comes to a rueful conclusion: These decisions have greatly exacerbated America's gap editorial board and senior editor for , and author of several books on American history and politics.
