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New York City may become the first to provide free legal representation to low-income tenants facing eviction.

Austerity measures represent the undercurrent of a new form of authoritarianism with allegiances only to power.

Like many immigrant families, that of Iris Sebastian (a pseudonym) has long played a precarious financial balancing game.

Stiglitz explores the work of Thomas Piketty and the need for economics to come to terms with income inequality.

In an ironic twist, Maryland has killed the death penalty a little sooner than anticipated.

Under President Obama, there has been no fundamental change to counteract the US government's impulse to torture.

It turns out that the taxpayer subsidy to Jim Harbaugh is equal to an awful lot of food stamps.

Whether it's through amending the Constitution or breaking up the states, a change needs to happen.

In a challenge to conventional views on monetary and fiscal policy, Bill Mitchell has emerged as one of the foremost exponents of Modern Monetary Theory.

It may just turn out that our children and their children will save us from ourselves.