In this 2017 Sundance award-winning documentary, filmmaker Peter Nicks spent two years embedded with the department as it seeks to reform itself amid the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement.

A Chicago journalist turned teacher talks about the struggle to teach young people about their government — and why she's hopeful.

In a two-part conversation, the Princeton professor argues that a “value gap” in America is keeping us from seeing each other as fellow citizens, and it’s stunting our democracy.

Bill speaks with the scholar and Princeton professor about the tremendous racial inequalities that remain as the final term of America's first black president draws to a close.

Living in America sometimes resembles taking part in a Ponzi scheme, and its likely to get worse before it gets better.

South Africans surprised everyone by transitioning to a relatively peaceful post-apartheid society. Here’s what Americans can learn.

From black sites to Bearcats, sound cannons to stink bombs, drones to data mining, the components of a new police counterinsurgency program are being assembled with remarkable speed.

Ferguson illustrates how a lack of fair opportunities in the political process both reflects and reinforces broader patterns of discrimination.

The DoJ's new report traces the pattern of racial bias from traffic stops to arrests to the courtroom and, finally, to a cycle of incarceration and indebtedness.

Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper on how we can turn war zone occupiers back into friendly neighborhood officers.