Perspectives

The possible 2016 presidential contender talks a populist line but hobnobs with Wall Street.

"Why don’t the unemployed get off their couches?" and eight other critical questions for Americans.

The debate after one man’s killing spree -- and his vow to punish the young women who rejected him -- may prove to be a watershed moment in the history of feminism.

"The cable companies have figured out the great truth of America: If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring."

What is this Atlantic journalist asking white people to do when it comes to the past treatment of African-Americans? Coates answers in this clip.

Our 'leaders' today are aggressively enthroning themselves and their ilk as the potentates of our economic, governmental and social systems and snuffing out the light of egalitarianism.

You know those people who always take and never give back? Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz says that's exactly how many of our top corporations are behaving, by paying virtually no taxes whatsoever.

In his powerful speech at the AFL-CIO convention last September, the Nobel Prize-winning economist said that we are losing the American dream.

The journalist explains how government housing policies led blacks into the arms of fraudulent mortgage lenders and whites to dump their homes in 1960s Chicago.

Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates recounts an after-school fight he witnessed as a young boy, and how it has influenced his writing over the course of his career.