Two headline-grabbing numbers suggest we're picking up the tab for a good chunk.

Best-selling author and historian Thomas Cahill talks to Bill in a wide-ranging conversation covering everything from the bubonic plague to Christopher Columbus to the nature of human progress.

Bill talks to best-selling author Thomas Cahill about why Pope Francis has conservatives up in arms.

While Washington was stuck in the grip of the politics of obstruction, grassroots activists around the country did their part, and they scored some major wins for economic justice, civil liberties and democracy.

Economists Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein have written a new book about how to cure what ails the American economy.

Big banks claim to be meritocracies, but a Bloomberg report suggests the old-boy network is alive and well on Wall Street.

It may be counterintuitive, but the long arc of history is bending the right way.

New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio's pledge to end “unconstitutional” stop-and-frisk may fall far short of the rhetoric.

New legislation would partially protect the wages of workers who take time off for the medical needs of themselves or their families.

Everyone seems to be talking about inequality. If you’ve got questions, we’ve (hopefully) got the answers.