Rent-controlled properties remain on home-sharing platforms like Airbnb in violation of a new ordinance.
A family of toxins known as PFAS has gotten its closeup on the silver screen via Dark Waters. Will regulators take note?
A deeply funded lobbying group led by a former Hillary Clinton aide is out to kill Medicare for All. Its ideological roots run back to the Truman era.
Immigrant detainees are not convicted criminals, yet they suffer hostile, prison-like conditions in America for years at a time.
In this swing state, Phoenix’s Maricopa County will be the battleground within the battleground.
Test your knowledge about inequities in America’s health care system.
Los Angeles-Hollywood-area parents say they were not consulted about a new middle school whose student body would be drawn from whiter and wealthier schools.
Academics accuse Trump’s Justice Department of systematically deleting immigration court records.
Measuring the shame of America’s “best economy ever.”
The Trump administration is fighting back against a new law phasing out privately run immigrant-detention centers.
Drug overdoses are the single greatest factor contributing to Los Angeles’ rising rate of homeless mortality, a report claims.
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Five days after a bill ending private prisons in the state was signed into law, the Trump administration found a way to get around it.
Progressives are going all-out to reverse the notion that Florida is unassailable Trump country.
Post-WWII reforms like the New Deal and the ensuing consolidation of the labor movement increased income equality in the U.S., but the playing field started to tilt in the 1970s due to the forces of globalization and pro-corporate government policies that hurt the working class.
A French economist finds that America’s tax structure lies at the heart of inequality.
How changes to California’s Proposition 13 could reduce inequality.
A struggling bellwether county in Pennsylvania appears to be back in the Democratic column. But is it?
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Many economists say the president can’t claim credit for the current economy and that his policies have contributed to rising inequality.