Thomas Picketty's book is expected to set off a firestorm in our economic discourse.

Close to 3,000 people weighed in on the Bill Moyers Facebook page with comments on President Obama's speech last night. Here's what they had to say.

The problem is that it’s grounded in the same old conservative thinking about what ails our health care system.

A new poll finds that the gap between the views of whites and nonwhites has never been wider.

Our senior writer remembers what the folksinger's music meant to him.

Time off isn’t just a moral necessity; it’s also smart economic policy.

A small group of determined college students took on Duke, leading the university to invest its endowment in more socially-responsible funds.

For the first time, working-age Americans make up a majority of food stamp recipients.

We need to reward enterprises that practice fair pay and stop rewarding those who are making our societies ever more unequal.

Indirectly, the federal government is the largest low-wage employer.