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Greg Kaufmann asks two economists: "How could we return to broad wage growth for all workers?"

Michael Winship describes the Washington, D.C., he first encountered 45 years ago -- a city very different from the one we know today.

The New York Times journalist has written about the city’s bipartisan lust for power, cash and notoriety in a book that everyone who’s anyone in D.C. is talking about.

Bill Moyers wonders what would happen if the elite Washington press corps exposed how the political system really works. Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, beware.

America's capital is its richest city, and also one of its most unequal.

The Department of Justice announced today that it is objecting to Texas’ voter ID law and will also seek to join a similar lawsuit against the state’s redistricting maps.

How's this for irony: While members of Ryan's district were calling for campaign finance reforms last summer, their congressman was meeting secretly with the Koch brothers.

The Nation's Dave Zirin writes that the speculation surrounding a kiss between victorious athletes demonstrates that the LGBT athletic community is spoiling for a fight next year in Sochi.

A new report released by the Cato Institute claims that the "current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that it acts as a disincen­tive for work.”

After paying out $42.4 billion for the Gulf Coast disaster cleanup, the petroleum giant is fighting back.