This Detroit man's horrific commute is just one extreme example of what poor public transportation means for many Americans.

Companies like Uber, TaskRabbit and Amazon's Mechanical Turk aim to use people more efficiently. Instead we should focus on allocating work and its gains more decently.

Presidential candidates will be spending a lot of time schmoozing with really rich white people with different priorities than the rest of America.

Reports of hedge fund managers seeking refuge in far away places show a misguided sense of how their money should be spent.

We need the contents of the TPP agreements to be made public now, and stakeholders like labor, environmental, consumer, democracy and health to be part of the process.

The new approach may spring from good intentions, but is undermined by a lack of affordable housing stock.

Yet presidential aspirants won't talk about taming Wall Street because they need its campaign money.

Read one struggling mom's efforts to keep her family afloat.

These policies could be pursued immediately, improving the lives and futures of millions of children and eventually saving taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars annually.

It takes a gallon of water to produce one almond. And that's not the most insane fact about the hedge-fund-fueled race to plant thirsty trees in the middle of a catastrophic drought.