He's wrong about the government being able to renegotiate debt like a business, but his talk on debt-to-GDP ratios may prove enlightening.

We spoke with Robert P. Jones, whose American Values Survey studies the role that religion, culture and the economy play in informing voters' decisions.

As the “middle class” hollows out, whites who started life under relatively promising circumstances are finally seeing the floor fall out under them.

At a time many Republican candidates are focusing on what people do in their bedrooms, America is experiencing a far more significant crisis in public morality.

Trade is a good thing. But enabling companies to move $30/hour jobs to countries with $.60/hour wages so a few billionaires can pocket the difference is not trade.

Just-in-time scheduling makes businesses more efficient, but it's a nightmare for working families.

The free-market fantasy violates both the reality of big events like the financial collapse, and the lived experience of most Americans.

It all started when corporate America decided to stop funding research and development, and instead increase profits through stock buy-back schemes.

There is a widely-held myth constructed by the right that the people who struggle to make ends meet don’t want to work. But in reality, people are working harder and harder for less and less.

A useful set of market-friendly policies that an economist thinks will lead to both more equality and more growth.