Activists and lawmakers rally against congressional inertia.

Affluent Southern Californians are funding a massive effort to criminalize the unhoused and defeat their few remaining political allies.

We can debate its economic harm, but its political damage to progressive governance is indisputable.

Republican-led states have reduced unemployment benefits, and workers are quitting their jobs at a nearly pre-pandemic rate.

Fifty years ago, in response to rising inflation, he rejected several long-standing practices. His Keynesian turn holds lessons for today’s economy.

As higher education goes broke, expensive sports teams are a luxury that colleges can’t afford.

Wages and job openings are up. Here’s why they won’t stay that way.

Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?

Rather than choose sides in this P.R. war of plutocrat divorcés, we should scrutinize whether billionaire philanthropy really works.

From the Black Death to Covid-19, deadly plagues have a tendency to raise hourly earnings—for the grisliest of reasons.

While Republicans cling to trickle-down delusions, Biden is reviving a philosophy of growth that the party hasn’t embraced since LBJ.

Joe Biden’s plan to raise capital gains taxes isn’t just reasonable. It’s downright Reaganesque, my friend.

The former vice president told the hard truth to the American people. No Democrat has dared do so since.

How politicians, regulators, and the media fell for an obvious financial fraud

How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream

With the help of Larry Summers and a battery of conservatives, the business lobby is disingenuously warning that Biden’s recovery plans will actually wreck the economy.

The president pledged to require businesses to make workplaces safe from the coronavirus on the campaign trail. Now he may not.

Big business has no reason either to believe or worry about the GOP’s empty threats.

The PRO Act will give workers a stronger hand to organize around a bolder political agenda.

An underfunded and overworked IRS has enabled a handful of plutocratic tax cheats to live large at the expense of everyone else.