Thomas Piketty's monumental book seeks to understand the “laws of motion” of capitalism and puts labor and capital squarely back in economics.

As powerful media organizations and the government threaten to stifle free speech, a coalition of activists is fighting for your right to connect and communicate.

Deepening inequalities in the US will keep to their disastrous course unless and until their victims and opponents build an organized coalition.

Earlier this month, workers and state legislators picketed McDonald's to press Albany to raise the state minimum wage.

Women are much more likely to have minimum-wage jobs than men and female-headed households are more likely to be poor.

Individuals taxpayers will give the IRS its biggest boost on April 18, so we should know what the government is doing with our money (but that doesn't mean we have to like it).

If we hope to improve educational outcomes, we need to demand policies that ensure that students can come to class well-fed and ready to learn.

Rand Paul's blinkered vision will make it almost impossible for him to grapple with how racial resentment fuels support for the libertarian politics he fervently espouses.

Replay our live chat with the historian and author about the ongoing fight for FDR’s Four Freedoms.

Workers today find themselves in an ill-defined borderland where confusion reigns, standards are shifting or disappearing and abuse is rampant.