Inequality

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 …

Eleanor Roosevelt was a bold progressive and, from the 1930s until her death, one of the most well-known and admired people in the United States and around the world.

Some of today's most greedy are running giant multinational corporations. Some are just running their mouths.

New report from nonpartisan group Congressional Research Service which examines the relationship between top tax rates and economic outcomes was rejected by GOP senators for its issues with

First, 9/11. Next, Katrina. Then Wall Street. Now, Sandy erases once and for all the line between man-made and natural disaster.

Independent journalists discuss the importance to maintaining the integrity of American politics through investigative journalism.

The content and character of the 2012 U.S. presidential election does not bode well for the human race and other life on Earth.

The neoliberal utopianism that caused the financial crisis has been repackaged for the 2012 election, where it masks a giant swindle that transfers wealth from low- and middle-income citizens …