Economy

ObamaCare uses a complex and intricate Rube Goldberg-esque system of eligibility rules.

Thom Hartmann: Just when we thought the big banks couldnu2019t hit a new low, they do.

Are we capitalism junkies?

Could Warren's bill represent the sort of game-changing thinking sorely needed to turn the economy around?

Dean Baker: Medicare and Social Security are safe from austerity hawks - for now. Time to raise a toast, then switch from defense to offense.

The vast majority of our fellow citizens demand a deep change while the majority of their political ‘representatives’ are apparently dead set on pursuing the same course: the self-defeating …

It seems as if the same battle is being fought in every aspect of American society ... Sadly, the classrooms of this country haven't been spared.

Austerity can inflict long-term damage on people's pockets, psyches, livelihoods and lives.

The internal logic of capitalism results in structural violence that includes genocide, a review of Garry Leech's new book argues.

Jobs are returning with depressing slowness, and most of the new jobs pay less than the jobs that were lost in the Great Recession.