Fast-food workers in cities across the country are expected to strike Thursday as part of growing protests against the nation’s biggest restaurant and retailer chains.

Two new studies suggest that the wealthy tend to be selfish and narcissistic, and Congress only cares about their interests.

Forensic economists devise ingenious ways of sniffing out cheaters.

BP responds to our post about its resistance to spend more on cleaning their oil spill -- and illustrates yet another revolving door in action.

Whenever there is an aura of money and power, an entourage grows up, and that is what's happened in D.C.

Michael Winship describes the Washington, D.C., he first encountered 45 years ago -- a city very different from the one we know today.

The New York Times journalist has written about the city’s bipartisan lust for power, cash and notoriety in a book that everyone who’s anyone in D.C. is talking about.

Bill Moyers wonders what would happen if the elite Washington press corps exposed how the political system really works. Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, beware.

Bill talks with author and New York Times journalist Mark Leibovich about his latest book, This Town, in which he writes that money rules D.C., and status is determined by who you know and what they can do for you.

How's this for irony: While members of Ryan's district were calling for campaign finance reforms last summer, their congressman was meeting secretly with the Koch brothers.