Economy

The bloated financial sector in the United States is a major engine of inequality sucking money away from poor and middle income households.

Governing isn't like selling smartphones; the underlying shape of the problems you have to confront changes quite slowly, and the basics of policy debate are quite stable.

Cheaply constructed buildings of the past were much more likely to have collapsed or for that matter have been torn down than the quality structures, so what we see …

Updates on my Bill Maher appearance, the Arizona execution, direct actions in Seattle and in New England, Derek Jeter tickets, and the Chinese meat scandal.

It's time to put an end to the financialization insanity that's hurting average people, destroying the American dream, and turning our economy into one big giant casino.

Iraq was a moral cesspit. Not only were we taken to war on false pretenses, it was clear that this was done in part for domestic political gain.

A little more than fifty years ago, over a quarter of workers belonged to some type of union. Today, fewer than 12 percent of all workers belong to a …

By calling attention to the over-valuation of social media and biotech companies, and junk bonds, Fed Chair Janet Yellen is putting the financial professionals on notice.

Coal production is gradually leaving Appalachia - having already extracted much of the region's natural wealth.

In 2010, an anarchistic Icelandic comedian, Jon Gnarr, became an unlikely face of successful alternative politics. The former Reykjavik mayor speaks about his philosophy, future and new book about …