Republicans claim that debt ceiling brinksmanship is a tactic employed by both parties, and historically that's true. But this time it's different. Here's why.

The real game, if you can play it, is shifting the tax burden onto someone else.

House Republicans were willing to shut down the government over Obamacare. We take a look back at other critics and roadblocks to social programs that are popular today.

Next month, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in McCutcheon v. FEC. When they do so, the Justices should remember the price of a Quarter Pounder in the 1970s. And here’s why.

A collection of interviews with politicians, policymakers, journalists and one ex-banker about the systemic flaws that led our economy to the brink of collapse.

The long history of bogus social movements in service of the plutocracy.

Most experts agree that the way the government measures poverty is out of date. We take a look at how it got so far off, and how experts recommend fixing it.

Historian Bernard Weisberger writes it's time retire the outworn American creed. Its hidden core of arrogance has often turned it into a kind of nationalism-on-steroids.

A new documentary looks at the heavyweight champion's role in key historical social movements of the 1960s.

Bill de Blasio’s win in New York’s primary isn’t a local story. It’s part of a vast shift that could upend three decades of American political thinking.