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If the majority of American workers were producing more without earning more, who was going to buy all the stuff?

With a well-marked pathway from preschool through high school, the dense New Jersey city is a model educator for newcomers—and America at large.

The charges form the crux of a federal discrimination lawsuit that goes to trial this month.

For every San Francisco earthquake and Superstorm Sandy, some die—and others profit.

This tiny nation has been pushed off a cliff to "save" the eurozone. Reunification may be the only way to turn the island's fortunes around.

How Republicans and industry profiteers are targeting high school students, welfare applicants and the unemployed.

In her book Captive Audience, Susan Crawford shows how media giants exert a stranglehold over consumers and government.
 

In Western hands, Afghanistan didn't transition to a "free market" system—but a particularly venal form of crony capitalism.

 Reagan's former budget director's outrage over crony capitalism and bank bailouts is right on, but the pundits don't like it.

Everyone's favorite Nobel-winning Keynesian is no longer gravely deluded on the global economy. How much can we trust him now?