The Long View

The great passion of Kennedy's last year was a struggle to enact an amendment ending the poll tax and removing other barriers to voting.

Turner Classic Movies airs four classic vérité documentary films tonight about JFK that are worth watching.

A WWII veteran reflects on the service of men and women who were brave, loyal and heroic -- and ordinary.

A new leaked report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows just how great the challenges will be.

Thanks to an eleventh-hour settlement the US has supposedly escaped fiscal doomsday, but historian Bernard Weisberger writes that it feels more like a stay of execution than the end of a crisis.

The question that haunted the post-war industrial tech boom of the 1950s is rising again: Have we reached a stage at which technology is destroying more jobs than it's creating?

The real game, if you can play it, is shifting the tax burden onto someone else.

Over two percent of American adults are barred from the voting booth. This kind of widespread disenfranchisement can have a significant electoral impact.

The long history of bogus social movements in service of the plutocracy.

Bill de Blasio’s win in New York’s primary isn’t a local story. It’s part of a vast shift that could upend three decades of American political thinking.