As Detroit draws international criticism for shutting off water for low-income families, activists ask why people are being forced to pay while the Wall Street banks live large.

Hopefully the president's words will lead to much-needed action.

It's the Democratic Party's own fault that voters struggle to distinguish it from the Republican Party.

This July 4, cherish the words of the Declaration but also summon Thomas Paine's spirit to remind yourself that we can, if we really care, pick up the broken thread of democratic zeal. An essay by Bill Moyers and Bernie Weisberger.

Insider information passed between Washington and Wall Street helps the already-powerful at our expense.

Why haven't any big bankers been prosecuted for their role in the housing crisis that led to the Great Recession? Bill has some ideas.

The possible 2016 presidential contender talks a populist line but hobnobs with Wall Street.

Our 'leaders' today are aggressively enthroning themselves and their ilk as the potentates of our economic, governmental and social systems and snuffing out the light of egalitarianism.

In his powerful speech at the AFL-CIO convention last September, the Nobel Prize-winning economist said that we are losing the American dream.

Minimum wage campaigns should be the entry point to not only raise the bottom but also to challenge the tricks, skims and scams that concentrate wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer people.