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In a wide-ranging audio chat, the Democracy Now! host explains why independent media is essential to democracy.

Isaiah J. Poole says the African-American unemployment crisis may hurt Democrats politically if President Obama doesn't address it soon.

Writer Sherman Alexie talks about the destructiveness of feeling "lost and insignificant inside the larger culture."

Sadly, not all that much progress has been made since the Mad Men days in terms of the perennial gender pay gap.

As he fights the Keystone XL pipeline, Bill McKibben hopes Congress' views on climate change "evolve" more quickly than they did on gay rights.

Because of sequestration, a bleak housing and homelessness situation is about to get a lot worse.

In this web extra, poet Kyle Dargan reads his poem about theft and desperation in hard economic times.

Poet Kyle Dargan talks about his efforts to reconcile his disparate cultural environments through poetry.

Grab a front row seat at the National Media Reform Conference, an annual meeting of media experts and advocates.

See images of poverty from around the nation documented by photojournalists from AmericanPoverty.org.