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Death of a Salesman speaks to our time on the failure of competitive capitalism.

The true economic legacy of the Reagan years is not tax cuts but union busting.

John Lindsay’s New York—and what it can teach us about neglected urban problems.

All of the plans on the table for solving the debt crisis, including the finalized plan, are far removed from the needs and wants of ordinary Americans. 

After years of unnecessary spending and tax cuts, Republican politicians are finally complaining about unfathomable amounts of debt.

Why is it that shelters known to be toxic are acceptable for Haitians but not Americans?

Are other countries as vulnerable to the effects of money and private interests in politics as we are in the United States?

Boeing's workers allege that the company unfairly retaliated against them for exercising their statutory right to go on strike and collectively bargain—what can the National Labor Relations Board legally do about it?

Koch Industries stands to profit off of a pipeline that threatens to leak toxins into the Midwest's water supply, and so do our politicians. Tell Hillary Clinton to represent the working class, not the nation's billionaires.

The IRS is investigating whether five wealthy donors financing political advocacy groups should be paying additional taxes on their contributions. What is this tax, and why hasn't this been enforced before?