Our latest roundup of key money and politics reporting. This week: Napster's billionaire founder takes on the 2014 elections while the White House hosts the young and rich.

Proposed legislation in California would set corporate taxes according to the ratio of CEO pay to the pay of the company’s typical worker.

Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished.

An increasing body of research shows the government serves only the wealthy. When money talks and you have none, how can you believe in democracy?

Economists and journalists share their reactions to Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

Bill reflects on the forces that are causing inequality to skyrocket, why it matters and where we're headed in the future.

Economist Paul Krugman explains how the United States is becoming an oligarchy - the very system our founders revolted against.

An heir to Alexis de Tocqueville's tradition of analytic history, economist Thomas Piketty has a message that could not be more different.

Informed by data, economist Thomas Piketty evaluates — and rejects — a number of generally accepted conclusions in economic thought.

Economist Dean Baker writes that Piketty's book is a bold attempt to pick up where Marx left off and correct what he got wrong.