Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden.

When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

There's a lot of research on the shift in who deals with money when families get in trouble. In good times, husbands handle the family's finances about 80 percent of the time. But when times turn sour and families start dealing with creditors and managing unpayable bills, women take more active roles.

Donald Trump cannot, cannot be the man who leads the United States of America.

There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color...We must fight back.

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.