Perspectives

In this excerpt from The Cause, Eric Alterman explains how modern liberals are making progress on one front while retreating on another.

The esteemed poet, who has died at the age of 86, traveled with Bill to her childhood town of Stamps, Arkansas, in this 1982 clip.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson decodes the words "marvelous," "flexibility," and "Social Darwinism."

Bill McKibben shares five subsidization "rules of the road" that should be applied to the fossil-fuel industry.

The idea that corporations are obligated only to shareholders is contrary to both law and precedent.

In this clip, the host of The Daily Show talks about his struggle to remain empathic and upbeat in a world of concurrent tragedies, and the importance of delivering news with context.

Author Barbara Ehrenreich says poverty's not a cultural aberration -- it's simply a shortage of money.

Tim Karr explores how dirty politics has become a growth industry for local television stations and their corporate parents.

A recent poll suggests the Occupy movement has not changed public opinion on tax policy.