Americans are fed up now with the powers that be, just as they were in the First Gilded Age. So why aren't people rising up to the same degree today?

Washington continues to reward wealthy donors and Wall Street, but what about everyday Americans? Author and historian Steve Fraser has answers.

"A populist who talks like Elizabeth Warren and really means it is a Democrat a conservative like me would consider voting for."

Read an excerpt from a 1906 Cosmopolitan exposé condemning rich donors who foot the bills for political parties and “manipulate the prosperity produced by all, so that it heaps up riches for the few.” Sound familiar?

Speaking at the Senate on Friday evening, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said the mega-bank should be broken "into pieces."

The US Chamber of Commerce, one of the biggest corporate trade associations, and ALEC, one of the biggest corporate lobbying groups, are both startlingly hostile to shareholders.

Watch more from Bill's conversation with John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine, including reaction to an obscure -- yet critical -- provision attached to the $1.1 trillion dollar spending bill.

John R. MacArthur of Harper’s Magazine says he's hoping progressive candidates will run for president, despite being intimidated by the "Clinton fundraising machine."

The two objectionable provisions might seem unrelated, but in fact they are quite interrelated.

At the behest of the biggest "too-big-to-fail" banks and as part of the House’s new spending bill, a measure to restrict banks' risky behavior is on the verge of being repealed.