The riots that hit London and other English cities last week have the potential to spread beyond the British Isles. Class rage isn't unique to England; in fact, it represents part of a growing global ...

This was big ideas week. It began with Neal Gabler in the New York Times observing that, in fact, we've run out of big ideas. Gabler triggered an Internet-scale flurry around their loss. But big ideas ...

As economically developing countries grow prosperous, their middle classes understandably become more satisfied with their lives. But many of their basic values also appear to change. Over time, the ...

Since class war first appeared in radical thought during the final decades of the eighteenth century, it has continuously evolved through an exchange of ideas between political activity and literary ...

The World Bank defines the global middle class within a large income range anywhere between $11 and $110 a day. Homi Kharas, an expert on the global middle class at the Brookings Institute, estimated ...

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Arguably the single most important economic development of the last half century has been the rise of the global middle class: over four billion individuals who are neither impoverished nor ...

Shoppers carry an electronic item outside a store in Caracas (Jorge Silva/Courtesy Reuters). As journalists, policymakers, and activists of various stripes and interests focus on the rise of the ...