Perspectives

Robert Kuttner writes in The American Prospect that the reforms needed to restore the country's shared prosperity are to the left of all the candidates, including Sanders.

This week marks the fifth anniversary of Dodd-Frank, the complicated legislation designed to reform Wall Street after the financial crisis. Five years later, the debate still rages.

Unfettered capitalism is designed to callously extract money from the most vulnerable and funnel it upward, writes Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges.

In the roaring 2000s, just as in the Roaring Twenties, America’s big banks used insured deposits to underwrite their gambling in private securities, and then dumped the securities on their customers.

There’s a battle brewing between the burgeoning clean-energy future and the dirty energy sources on which this planet has been running since the Industrial Revolution.

The Supreme Court’s recent blessing of Obamacare has precipitated a rush among the nation’s biggest health insurers to consolidate into two or three behemoths.

In a recent speech, Klein said our current economic system is both fueling the climate crisis and actively preventing us from taking the necessary actions to avert it.

Anyone who thinks social democracy is un-American doesn't know their history, writes historian Harvey J. Kaye.

Our movement for democracy, shared prosperity, transparency, honesty, dignity, respect and humanity can only grow.

It is the battle flag of white cowards, and those angry that white privilege is ending, writes historian Douglas Blackmon.