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Michael Lind has one of the bigger brains around, and you can always count on him to advance provocative and sweeping arguments. He doesn't disappoint with his new piece in The Breakthrough Journal, " The Coming Realignment." It's one of those big think articles where the thesis seems entirely

Thomas Piketty’s wildly popular new book, “ Capital in the 21st Century ,” has been subject to more think pieces than the final episode of “Breaking Bad.” Progressives are celebrating the book — a

If you hang around the inequality debate long enough, wading through the many smart proposals to reduce the income gap, it all starts to seem kind of doable. We could make a real dent in inequality through a bunch of steps ranging from raising the minimum wage to more heavily taxing capitals gains

In a recent op-ed at Forbes, Luke Wachob touts the decision in McCutcheon v. FEC as a victory for free speech.

New Jersey’s investment in higher education has decreased considerably over the past two decades, and its financial aid programs, though still some of the country’s most expansive, fail to reach many students with financial need.

During an appearance on the resurrected Arsenio Hall Show last month, Kid Cudi responded in typical fashion to one of those frequently regurgitated questions about saving the “perilous state of hip-hop:” I think the braggadocio, money, cash, hoes thing needs to be deaded.

Virginia’s investment in higher education has decreased considerably over the past two decades, and its financial aid programs, though still some of the country’s most expansive, fail to reach many students with financial need.

Walk around a Target store, and you can see why consumerism is the new opiate of the masses. There's so much stuff to buy and it's so damn cheap. I once bought a full dining ware set at Target for $9.99. Data in today's New York Times shows just how shockingly far prices have fallen for various

On a crisp and sunny morning on the day after Thanksgiving, a group of protesters gathered in front of a large Walmart in Michigan’s Sterling Heights, calling for wage increases and better working conditions for the superstore's employees. Mary Johnson, a retiree and member of international activist