Labor

The leader of one of America's feistiest unions is aiming to expand the economic fairness debate. He's proposing a cap on incomes at the top that rises only if incomes...

This election season is full of laments about how polarized American politics has become.  Extreme right-wing Republicans claim they can't see eye to eye with extreme left-wing Democrats.  Politicians are...

Ever since the sharp recessions of the early Reagan years, each new expansion has yielded fewer and fewer jobs.  A recession is bad enough for most people.  A jobless recovery...

Once upon a time, America was always getting better.  It was never perfect, but it was always improving itself.  The ideal -- and usually the reality too -- was progress....