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There aren't a lot of causes that can fire up Americans across the political spectrum, but getting money out of politics is definitely one of them. That's the finding of a recent poll-based memo by the DemocracyCorps. A majority of Americans see Washington as corrupt, the memo reports, and many

“Must have good credit.”

Perhaps the most striking fact from the exit polls last Tuesday is just how well Democrats did among highly educated voters. In Virginia, Terry McAuliffe won voters with a postgradudate degree by 22 points. In New Jersey, the Democratic candidate lost high school and college grads by double digit

If asked, Americans of all political persuasions will say overwhelmingly that they prefer “ tougher rules” for Wall Street. But what does that actually mean?

Here's a basic conundrum facing progressives right now: We're the people who want more big government, yet populist anger at all major institutions -- public and private -- is the most powerful current in politics today. How do we square that circle?

Matt Phillips at QZ reports on, “the most important change in the US economy since the Great Recession—that nobody is talking about.” The change is the drastic decline in credit card debt among American consumers.

Veterans Day has long been a moment to reflect on how successive wars of the 20th Century reshaped America and the world. But judging by what just happened in the Philippines, we could well be living in a century where cataclysmic weather events play that history altering role.

We need a new, positive definition of public goods to counter the current market-myopic economics definition that relegates pubic goods to market failure

In August 2011, Congress passed a strange piece of legislation intended to bind itself into the future. In spite of persistently high unemployment and an unremarkable deficit-to-GDP ratio, and in spite of public polling that consistently showed that creating jobs was  the American public’s top

Black veterans weren't able to make use of the housing provisions of the GI Bill because banks generally wouldn't make loans for mortgages in Black neighborhoods, and African-Americans were excluded from the suburbs by a combination of deed covenants and informal racism.