How to Defeat 鈥淲ealth Supremacy鈥� and Build a Democratic Economy

Oct 20, 2023

The United States economic system is facing increasing scrutiny for the it has generated. A significant part of the stranglehold that the current form of capitalism has is cultural: the idea that when stock prices are booming and the Dow Jones is high, the and ordinary Americans are thriving.

But applying a clarifying lens to the prevailing economic model reveals that we live under a system of what author calls 鈥渨ealth supremacy,鈥� which is the title of her new book. Kelly is a distinguished senior fellow at the , a nonprofit working to catalyze the creation of a democratic economy. She spoke with 大象传媒 Racial Justice Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about her book and what it will take to realize a democratic economic system.

Sonali Kolhatkar joined 大象传媒 in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.