How the wealthy use the government to stack the deck in their favor and how we can use free markets to address inequality.

A group of white Georgia men and women with an alleged penchant for displaying the Confederate flag while terrorizing innocent black partygoers was just indicted as a street gang—a creative charge that would triple the time they could spend in prison ...

"If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed."

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz is one of the most renowned economists in the world. The Columbia University professor and former chief economist at the World Bank won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 2001 and has been one of the most v ...

Map of the new Community Improvement District in Columbia, Missouri Normally gerrymandering in a medium-sized town that ...

Replace "political correctness" with "treating people with respect." The results are amazing.

On Monday, President Obama presented the final version of his centerpiece climate plan to much fanfare. But despite the bravado with which the plan was announced, it’s not even designed to produce a significant shift in the uptake of renewable energy ...

Windows 10 is the operating system Microsoft needs. In other words, it’s not Windows 8, a Frankenstein’s monster of a tablet-plus-desktop OS that alienated everyone from PC manufacturers to corporate users. Instead, Windows 10 is an incremental impro ...

"I think that would democratize very significantly the political process in America and take us a long way away from these Super PACs controlled by billionaires who are now buying elections."

Three New Jersey teenagers were detained for several hours this weekend after they mistakenly knocked on the door of a state trooper who then shot at them as they drove away, the NY Daily News reports.

Rarely mentioned in discussions of poverty is the Federal Reserve Board’s policy on interest rates, which has an enormous impact on the rate of economic growth and the level of unemployment.

eSports organisation ESL has issued an official statement regarding the use of performance enhancing drugs in its competitions. The statement comes after a pro CS:GO player stated “We were all on Adderall"

what if the minimum wage had kept in step with productivity growth over the last 44 years?

Most people would frown upon a business journalist lobbying the mayor of New York City over a political issue on behalf of a corporation she covers. CNBC’s Amanda Drury doesn’t see the big deal.

With the finalization of a potential Greek debt deal drawing closer, former Federal Reserve chairman turned blogger Ben Bernanke has a post Friday morning excoriating Europe's past five years of economic policy in which he chides Germany for mor ...

Smedley Butler was a United States Marine Corps major general, the highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. During his 34-year career as a Marine,

Despite Syriza’s surrender, the new bailout agreement makes Grexit more likely in the future

When Shahin Rafikian, a rising junior at the University of Maryland, College Park, first saw the extra credit question on his final online Social Psychology paper, he was intrigued by the prospect of extra points. But he was confronted with a dilemma ...

Gawker pulled a controversial post as the media company navigates a maturing Internet culture that demands higher standards and accountability.