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  1. It’s Worse Than You Think: How the Party of Lincoln Suppresses Black Votes President Lincoln and General George B. McClellan in the general's tent near the Antietam battlefield, October 3, 1862. (Image: Alexander Gardner)
    9 Sep 2014 … The GOP, facing demographic headwinds, is rewriting laws to maintain its viability. Continue reading
  2. Hidden Assets: The World of Tax Evasion and The Last Stop: Inside Foster Care Photo of tax return and US treasury check
    7 Jul 2002 … NOW looks into the many Americans who avoid paying their rightful share of taxes, sometimes with the help of the world's biggest banks. And a special report shows a residential treatment center as it tried to heal some of our Continue reading
  3. Environmental Activist: Progress Seen in Clean Energy, but “Climate Gap” Largely Ignored
    1 Jan 2014 … Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins says transitions to cleaner energy sources are good signs of progress, but the toll climate change takes on the poor remains virtually ignored. Continue reading
  4. How Trump Could Spend $1 Trillion to Fix America If He Knew What He Was Doing We need to give people a wide range of transportation options, says Lynn Richards of Congress for New Urbanism. (Photo by KIDKUTSMEDIA/ flickr CC 2.0)
    5 May 2017 … Infrastructure! We’ve really got your attention now, right? Here’s the thing, though: It’s what makes modern life possible. Showers, cellphones, pizza delivery, toilets — all those fail without infrastructure. Much of what we’ve got now is old, dangerous and needs Continue reading
  5. Mariana Chilton
    6 Jun 2013 … Mariana Chilton is an associate professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia and director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities. She is a founder of Witnesses to Hunger, an advocacy program aimed at increasing women’s participation in the Continue reading
  6. Just Saying “Systemic Racism” Doesn’t Expose Systemic Racism Demonstrator Randall Grey protests a taxation of the wealthy during a rally at Occupy Wall Street San Diego on Oct. 13, 2011 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Corbis via Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2020 … Let us name the system: "racial capitalism." Continue reading
  7. The Justice, the Pope, the Press and the Question of Values Pope Francis walks on stage at the US border, before celebrating mass at the Ciudad Juarez fairgrounds, on February 17, 2016. (GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2016 … Given how quickly the news cycle spins these days, Pope Francis’ extemporaneous criticism of candidates who would rather build walls than bridges, prompted by a reporter’s question about Donald Trump, already seems like ancient history. And even Justice Antonin Scalia’s Continue reading
  8. ‘Dollarocracy’: How Special Interests Undermine Our Democracy
    11 Nov 2013 … The United States has experienced fundamental changes that are dramatically detrimental to democracy. any honest assessment of America’s arc of history tells us that it has bent toward justice only when the demand has been sufficient to address the crisis. Continue reading
  9. This Unnoticed Part of Obama’s Child Care Initiative Is a Big Deal Milan Scott of Flint, Mich., follows along with teacher assistant Tekia Long, a University of Michigan-Flint junior and Flint native, as they read in a book together during teacher Mary Lynn Gottler's class on Tuesday morning, Oct. 8, 2013, at William S. White Building on the University of Michigan-Flint campus in downtown Flint. The U-M Flint Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) has been awarded a $500,000 grant to help students cover childcare costs while they attend classes. (AP Photo/The Flint Journal, Jake May) LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT
    2 Feb 2015 … It's not enough for family policy programs to care for kids while their parents are at work. They have to support the families at home, too. Continue reading
  10. Now’s Your Chance, President-Elect Trump As a Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump delivered an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, DC in March. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2016 … On Monday, less than a week after Donald Trump won the presidency, I received a piece of anti-Semitic hate mail. It was addressed to me personally, at my home, where I live with my wife and two daughters, aged 3 Continue reading