Our weekly roundup of key money and politics reporting.

The recent progressive turn in many American cities was far from inevitable, but shows no sign of slowing.

Negotiators reportedly settled on cutting funding for financial regulators after giving up on further cuts in food stamps in a draft of a budget deal.

In theory, everyone agrees that the government should step in to correct market failures. It's the politics that get in the way.

Bill discusses our country's most successful effort to cut poverty with another veteran of that fight, Peter Edelman, who is today one of the leading experts on poverty.

Andrew Bacevich writes that the United States no longer knows how to win wars, but it continues to start them.

A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ.

Pensions came in for a hard landing at Boeing last week, as workers at the aircraft manufacturer became the latest group to say goodbye to this long-term benefit.

Research finds that the wealthy tend to believe in "class essentialism" and are more likely to endorse retributive forms of punishment over restorative justice.

A new report aims to raise awareness of the widespread economic insecurity faced by American women and their children.