Economy

Peter Van Buren has been traveling the ever-expanding, ever-rustier Rust Belt taking the temperature of a land with a significant fever. Here's his account.

Updates on Alabama prison/slave labor; automobile irrationalities; the California drought; and more.

Of all the things they've endured, Detroit residents can now add grotesque racial insensivity from a newspaper editor to their list.

Obamacare needs to be recognized as a big step forward in a process that was already well underway, which is to convert the practice of medicine from a patient-oriented …

Students often find themselves with little to no substantive representation on campus, and in recent years, many have turned to building student unions.

This week, the House Ways and Means Committee is poised to demonstrate exactly how the rules are rigged.

Any progressive candidate for president in 2016 should be calling for a 10-10-10 plan: 10 paid sick days, 10 paid holidays and 10 paid vacation days for all workers.

For most of our lives, we've been taught that hard work pays off, but most of the super-rich don't make their money by working hard, and more.

Private enterprises, the military and the super-rich are among those buying politicians and hurting the working class.

The FCC is about to release proposed regulations that would allow broadband providers to charge additional fees to content providers in exchange for access to a faster tier of …