As powerful media organizations and the government threaten to stifle free speech, a coalition of activists is fighting for your right to connect and communicate.

The racism of voter ID laws has received too little attention where it matters.

Deepening inequalities in the US will keep to their disastrous course unless and until their victims and opponents build an organized coalition.

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows how much today's inequality has in common with what America, France and Britain saw a century ago.

The legendary activist had ideas we should remember today.

The French economist answered this and other questions about Capital in the Twenty-First Century at a forum last week. Watch video of the event here.

Democrats are making voting rights a key issue. Republicans used to do the same.

What’s wrong with the way restaurant workers are treated and compensated? Hundreds of people with experience in the food industry wrote to Bill with their thoughts.

Women are much more likely to have minimum-wage jobs than men and female-headed households are more likely to be poor.

Individuals taxpayers will give the IRS its biggest boost on April 18, so we should know what the government is doing with our money (but that doesn't mean we have to like it).