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  1. DOJ to Texas: Voter Suppression Will Not Stand Attorney General Eric Holder, left, attends a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 31, 2013, in observance of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
    8 Aug 2013 … The Department of Justice announced today that it is objecting to Texas’ voter ID law and will also seek to join a similar lawsuit against the state’s redistricting maps. Continue reading
  2. Smart Chart: The Black-White Wealth Gap Widened During the Great Recession pew, race, wealth
    12 Dec 2014 … From 2010 to 2013, the median wealth of white households increased to $141,900. Meanwhile, the median wealth of black households fell to $11,000 in 2013. Continue reading
  3. Sister Joan Chittister on Religion and Politics. Afghanistan and Iraq. The Approaching Generational Storm. Afghanistan flag (Photo: New Zealand Defence Force/flikr CC 2.0)
    11 Nov 2004 … Sr. Joan discusses how religion became so strong a dividing line in American politics and war journalist Christian Parenti provides a close up view of the realities on the ground in Afghanistan. Continue reading
  4. What’s the Best Way to Solve the Student Debt Crisis?
    6 Jun 2013 … In our latest Group Think, experts suggest ways to address the crushing financial burden on American students. Continue reading
  5. The President Plays with Matches Indonesian demonstrators burn a photo featuring US President Donald Trump during a protest against his recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Banda Aceh on Dec. 10, 2017. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2017 … Once again the country watches in horror as firefighters struggle to contain blazes of historic voracity — as we watched only a couple of months ago when at least 250 wildfires spread across the counties north of San Francisco. All Continue reading
  6. Years of Living Dangerously Returns To Television Sunday Years of Living Dangerously
    10 Oct 2016 … Though inadequate to save the planet, the Paris agreement was a major milestone, driven in part by President Obama’s willingness to take some initial action to confront this looming threat. Yet the topic of climate change hardly came up in Continue reading
  7. I’m Proud My Mother Was Arrested Fighting Extremism in North Carolina Holiday Clinkscale II waves an American flag as he joins thousands of people of protesters in downtown downtown Raleigh, N.C., Saturday Feb. 8, 2014. Nearly 200 organizations are joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the "Moral March on Raleigh," a new name for the "Historic Thousands on Jones Street," as it was originally called. Jones Street referred to the street where the Legislative Building stands and the usual terminus of the march. Advocates are angry about bills Gov. Pat McCrory has signed into law, including the refusal to expand Medicaid under the federal health care law; a reduction in unemployment benefits; an elections-overhaul law that requires photo identification to vote in person; the elimination of the earned income tax credit; and taxpayer-funded grants for low-income children to attend private K-12 schools. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy)
    2 Feb 2014 … 80,000 marched in North Carolina to push back against the conservative agenda, the largest protest in the South since Selma in 1965. Continue reading