As the #occupywallstreet movement gains momentum, much attention in the press and across social media channels has been focused on the clarity of their demands. Yet the tragic reality is that irresponsible financial practices and social inequality have impacted almost every aspect of American life, inspiring grievances ranging...

Anyone watching the rollercoaster ride that has been the U.S. stock market over the last two weeks can't help but be reminded of the traumatic series of events set off by the stock market crash in 2008. As many have commentators have noted, a lot of the behaviors that got...

For decades, the private sector has allowed government and philanthropies to be in charge of our social conditions. Poverty, unemployment, education and re-education, family assistance, and public health were not the responsibility of corporations. Neither was world peace, the prevention of famine and infant mortality, the stagnation of...

We are living in a historical era akin to the 18th century Enlightenment. That was when social philosophers threw out many former paradigms that had dominated human societies for millennia -- royalty, aristocracy and serfdom. In their place, they invented the new frameworks of human relationships, such as democracy and...