Perspectives

Will Obama keep his promise to the people and challenge the Republican-led Congress tonight?

The President's meeting with native teenagers made him "tear up in the Oval Office." His new agenda to help better their lives is huge step for low-income tribal communities across the country.

There is a widely-held myth constructed by the right that the people who struggle to make ends meet don’t want to work. But in reality, people are working harder and harder for less and less.

TalkPoverty highlights the best 20 stories and op-eds that drew attention to critical but under-reported issues in America in the the past year.

Expanding on a chat Bill did with viewers in January, he offers his views on the Oscar-nominated film and his recollections of President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965.

Getting the high speed Internet access issue right presents both one of the key social justice challenges of our time and the greatest opportunity for America in a century.

In an online live chat, Bill talks about what everyday people need to do to fight against the powers that be, the historical inaccuracies in the film 'Selma' and much more.

While other conservatives say that the American state has become too powerful, Francis Fukuyama argues that it has grown too weak.

A cartoonist writes that "free speech is clearly both a gift and a right, and a terror attack like this is a huge motivation to wield that speech more effectively and powerfully."

A wake up call for the left comes as Republicans double down on austerity, taxation and deregulation.