Perspectives

The conservative assault on food stamps -- authored by Reagan, updated by Ryan -- is really an attack on the middle class.

Community-based groups beat the government and industry in responding to the needs of 300,000 people affected by the chemical spill in West Virginia's Elk River.

Higher education is being defunded as part of a larger scheme to dismantle and privatize all public services, goods and spheres.

We'd live in a very different world if we privileged well-being over growth.

As Senator Feinstein has revealed, the CIA will not only stall but even spy on Congress to impede its investigation of wrongdoing.

He insists not, and legal scholar Ian Haney López says he hopes Ryan has learned his lesson.

States are considering laws that prevent private companies from photographing license plates. The companies are pushing back.

The history of the phrase "inner city" seems to buttress assertions that it comes with racial connotations.

Twenty-six years after the infamous Willie Horton ad, race-based politics blocked Debo Adegbile's passage to head the Justice Department's civil rights division.

Sen. Bernie Sanders says that FDR's 1944 State of the Union speech is a model for what he would like to do for America's middle class. In this post, historian Harvey J. Kaye remembers what FDR had to say.