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Katrina vanden Heuvel and Jamie Raskin join Bill to discuss the uncontested power of the Supreme Court.

Author Craig Unger describes the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that may enable Karl Rove to to once again affect a presidential election.

What might life be like if we literally lived the way Americans did around the time our founding fathers drafted the Constitution?

In this excerpt from Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, authors Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson explain the significance of the Powell Memorandum, a call-to-arms for American corporations … Continue reading

An excerpt from Craig Unger's new book, framing Karl Rove as Republican Party kingmaker.

Bill Moyers and Bernard Weisberger document the Supreme Court's history of supreme power to the present day.

The number of people living in poverty is the highest the Census Bureau has ever recorded, but when will rhetoric give way to results?

It’s hard to believe that 11 years later there still can be new developments advancing the story from that awful morning. And yet there are, some of them too long coming.

In the last five years of their lives, many seniors spend all of their assets covering health care costs — and they're on Medicare.

The veteran bank regulator describes how fraud and deceit caused the country's economic meltdown, which got its start four years ago this week.