Chuck Collins is campaigner, research and storyteller based at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org. He is author of the eco-fiction novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun, and the forthcoming book, Burned By Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and Planet (October 2025 New Press).
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Musk’s trillion-dollar fortune is a flashing warning light for democracy
Elon Musk becoming the planet’s first trillionaire should alarm anyone worried about democracy. At that level of wealth, you’re no longer just buying another mansion or private jet; the dangerous power of concentrated wealth is to distort markets, politics, and society.
July 8, 2026
Burned by Billionaires: Excerpt
This excerpt from Chuck Collins’ new book Burned by Billionaires includes examples of rule changes that would lift people out of poverty, increase economic security for the precarious, and reduce inequality.
October 15, 2025
“Stick Together:” An Anthem for the Community Resilience and Resistance Movement
Luke’s song underscores the power of music and art at this moment. I know it helps me personally to stay grounded and sane as we face the topsy-turvy days we are living through.
June 3, 2025
New England Climate Activists Press for No New Private Jet Infrastructure: A Battle over Airport Expansion with Global Implications
Tripling the private jet capacity of Hanscom field would be the equivalent of blowing off a ‘carbon bomb’ of emissions to enable a handful of multi-millionaires and billionaires to jet to Aspen, West Palm Beach, Jackson Hole, and New England coastal islands.
October 10, 2023
60 Years After the March on Washington, Black Economic Inequality Persists
Sixty years after the famed March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his landmark “I Have a Dream” speech, African Americans are on a path where it will take 500 more years to reach economic equality.
August 22, 2023
Report: Taxing the World’s Richest Would Raise US $2.52 Trillion a Year
A new analysis, “Taxing Extreme Wealth,” by the Fight Inequality Alliance, Institute for Policy Studies, Oxfam, and Patriotic Millionaires found a shocking rise in global wealth among the world’s richest people despite deepening inequality during the Covid-19 pandemic.
January 25, 2022
