This spring, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two cases that touch on questions of the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. Source: Fibonacci Blue (Flickr). In U.S. v. Windsor, with arguments ...

Social scientists use 3 common methods to define class—by occupation, income, or education—and there is really no consensus about the “right” way to do it. Michael Zweig, a leading scholar in ...

"Building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency," Vice President Kamala Harris said at a political event in Atlanta on Tuesday evening. "When our middle class is strong, America ...

It is still painful to remember the day when I discovered how fragile my family’s lower middle-class existence was. In one of the innumerable, thoughtless acts of my youth, I swiped 35 cents off my ...

Clive Crook is afraid of the proles. Acknowledging arguments that extreme income inequality is socially and economically unsalutary (reviewed in National Journal by Jonathan Rauch), Crook cautions ...

The latest version of TypeScript provides developers with tools to create base classes and class hierarchies just like the other object-oriented languages. In an earlier column, I looked at what ...