Rich Americans and state governments will game the new rules, thereby reducing federal revenue and endangering programs for the poor.

The bill will become a powerful tool for Democrats to enact big ideas like free college and universal health care.

Despite railing against Wall Street in 2016, the president is battling to hobble the one agency devoted solely to protecting financial consumers.

Private equity firms overburdened businesses with debt, and now workers are paying the price. Will policymakers do anything about it?

Adapting to the new economy has made young people drastically more worried and dissatisfied than their parents' generation.

"Chained CPI," the GOP's sneaky way of cutting Social Security, is back—and flying under the radar this time.

The House’s proposed legislation is full of goodies for the wealthy, but offers virtually no relief to anyone else.

The GOP's hasty plan, to be released Wednesday, looks to be a gift to the wealthy and a gut punch to everyone else.

Bad economics and political desperation have made corporate welfare a common practice. The solution: means-testing for economic incentives.

Elizabeth Warren and her brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, provide a roadmap for the left to make antitrust reform a reality.

The ousting of a Google critic at the New America Foundation shows how donors have corrupted Washington's policy and research institutes.

A right-wing economist’s plan to rig democracy for the rich.

Why do three companies control Americans' most sensitive personal information? There's no good answer to that question.

Progressives are wielding their wallets to fight Trump. But there are limits and dangers to harnessing consumer activism for political change.

His infrastructure proposals were eclipsed this week by the controversy in Charlottesville. But they have more in common than you might think.

The president is claiming credit for a series of corporate investments in the U.S., even though they come with expensive strings attached.

An unlikely coalition of Trump voters, lefty activists, and indigenous people is trying to stop the construction of a power line in New Hampshire. What does it bode for the future of politics?

Yes, they're hard to do. But our narrow moral vocabulary for describing non-professional pursuits is making our lives worse.