Stories by Leo Gerard

Banking is built on trust. But U.S. citizens have ample reason not to trust the banks and their government regulators.

Refusing to yield on the sequester, Republicans have decided that the vast middle class, the elderly and the poor must suffer.

There's good reason to greet the company's latest make-nice move with a dose of skepticism.

Those born into poverty or the middle class live lives nagged by insecurity. They know their jobs could be off-shored at any moment. Their major asset in life, their home, may have lost a third of its value when the Wall Street-inflated housing bubble burst.

As bankers' crimes pile up, maybe the best way to catch them in the act is to take advantage of all that greed.

When Bain bankrupted the companies it bought – and Bain did that shockingly often – workers and Main Street businesses paid the price.

Corporations, 1 percenters and Republicans are working to ensure you don’t vote because they honestly believe you don’t count.

The routine slaughter of human rights activists and trade unionists in Colombia is a quarter century old.

The GOP demeans Americans by suggesting it would be more honorable for them to die without health insurance than receive it through their government.

Throughout this episode, Republicans never wavered or vacillated or faltered in any way in performing their most basic function as a political party: pandering to the rich.

In the spirit of their self-centered mentor Ayn Rand, Republicans are trying to disfigure America so she resembles Pottersville, the 'bankers town' in "It's a Wonderful Life."

Go back, the Republicans are saying. Reprise unfettered, irresponsible Wall Street, the Republicans demand.