Inequality

Digitized health records may be a step forward for improving overall health care, but how will they safely and competently account for the medically and socially marginalized LGBT community?

The strange saga of Tareq Abufayyad's foiled attempt to join his family of US citizens in California reveals how real people's lives can be ruined by aggressive pre-emptive prosecution, …

The days of Horatio Alger stories promising rags to riches are over - if they ever existed to begin with.

n Detroit, on MLK Day, hundreds gathered to rally and protest against the persistent nightmares of inequality in urban cities nationwide.

The truth is most Americans have not been living beyond their means.

Few are better equipped than economist Richard Wolff, professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, to address the massive failings and inequalities of capitalism.

Peter Dreier looks back at 2012 and 25 powerful progressive victories, including elections, ballot measures, court rulings, legislation and new waves of mobilization.

James S. Henry: Obama's deal with GOP on estate tax ensures very rich families will continue to amass historic levels of wealth and power.

Last-minute deal continues to shift costs of crisis to the masses.

The sun will rise on Thursday morning to shine down upon the end of the 112th Congress, the single most useless do-nothing assembly of fools and failures in …