Latest articles by Harold Pollack


Death, disability, and mental impairment are among the statistically predictable risks.


Your finances are easy to ignore, but it’s a mistake to put them off for another year.


A new study found a way to increase empathy for members of this troubled, growing community.


Harvard’s Robert Putnam argues that you can’t understand Hillary Clinton without undrestanding “liberal communitarianism.”




In 2013, the average wealth of a non-Hispanic white American was about $142,000, compared to $18,100 for nonwhite and Hispanic Americans.


If you follow good investment practices, you don’t need to worry about major stock market downturns.


Financial advisers don’t come cheap, but sometimes they can pay for themselves.


“The check just looked fake,” the retired NFL star says of his first million-dollar payday.


To become politically feasible, an American single-payer system would necessarily replicate our current system’s most glaring defects.