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How Sandy Saved Occupy

The protest movement’s disaster-relief efforts have helped it connect with the “99 percent” it had trouble reaching in its Zuccotti Park days.

While the company’s shareholders rake in $16 billion per year, the average worker at America’s largest employer makes just $8.81 an hour.

Prince George’s County was a symbol of African American prosperity. Then came the housing crisis.

When will people making a living in the arts fight for their right to be compensated fairly for their contributions to culture?

Now that Obamacare—the largest expansion of the social-safety net in the last 60 years—is safe, what’s next for the liberal economic project?

By taking a hard line against Republicans—and protecting Social Security and Medicare—Obama can win the budget standoff.

In an exit poll of 200,000 voters, everyone agrees that Romney’s policies were in no way geared towards helping the poor.

Striking a deal with Republicans on entitlements would be a disastrous start to Obama’s second term.

Five states will vote to “ban” Affordable Care Act reforms. The trouble is, they can’t.

Unpacking the economics and the politics of our country’s growing austerity lobby