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  1. Is Paul Ryan Racist?
    3 Mar 2014 … He insists not, but the author of Dog Whistle Politics hopes he’s learned his lesson. Continue reading
  2. How the Disappearing Middle Class Threatens Our Democracy
    3 Mar 2017 … Legal scholar Ganesh Sitaraman’s new book, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution, is an important read in these times of increasing economic inequality. E.J. Dionnne tweeted: “To understand the stakes in the #Gorsuch confirmation battle and our larger judicial debate, Continue reading
  3. Teachers Are Protecting American Classrooms From Corporate Takeover In this April 10, 2014 file photo, student teacher Franchesca Moreno, 21, reads to Andreanna Thomas, 6, right, and Alana Cawthon, upper left, at Bennett Park Montessori School in Buffalo, NY. (AP Photo)
    5 May 2014 … Teachers are fighting the privatization wave by connecting with families right where they live. Continue reading
  4. James Cone and Taylor Branch on MLK’s Fight for Economic Equality
    4 Apr 2013 … Theologian James Cone and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch join Bill to discuss Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision of economic justice. Continue reading
  5. There Will Be Fewer Child Migrants This Year, But the Crisis Isn’t Over A surge of unaccompanied minors crossed the US-Mexico border last year, fleeing the poverty and gang violence crisis in their home country. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
    2 Feb 2015 … Even as the journey north has gotten harder, thousands of kids are fleeing Central America for the United States. Continue reading
  6. Trump Flip-Flops on Afghanistan, Opts for Years-Long Quagmire Members of the US military listen as President Donald Trump delivers remarks on American involvement in Afghanistan on Aug. 21, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2017 … The 16-years-long Afghanistan War has bedeviled Washington decision-makers since the US invasion of fall 2001, which came in response to the attacks of Sept. 11. Continue reading
  7. This is What a Real Food Policy Conversation Looks Like Four-year-old Nathan Hobbs, who lives in a homeless shelter with his mother, sits in a stroller with one-dollar bills he received for his birthday pinned to his chest in Los Angeles, Wednesday, September 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
    7 Jul 2013 … In contrast to the rubbish that passes for a conversation about food and hunger in Congress, the recent Forum on the Future of Food in New York City offered substantive talk. Continue reading
  8. Climate Change, Fossil Fuels Are Hurting Our Kids A child in an area affected by a drought in the southern outskirts of Tegucigalpa on April 22, 2016. (Photo by Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2016 … Children suffer the most from fossil-fuel burning. Fossil-fuel combustion and associated air pollution and carbon dioxide (CO2) is the root cause of much of children’s ill health today, as well as their uncertain future. There are strong scientific arguments, as Continue reading
  9. Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump "I Voted" stickers at a polling location during the presidential primary vote in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. (Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    10 Oct 2017 … You can’t say Andrea Anthony didn’t try. A 37-year-old African-American woman with an infectious smile, Anthony had voted in every major election since she was 18. On Nov. 8, 2016, she went to the Clinton Rose Senior Center, her polling site Continue reading
  10. Martin Luther King Jr.: Remembering a Committed Life MLK
    1 Jan 2014 … Nearly 50 years after his death it is King's words and deeds that live on in the American memory -- not that of the racists who hated him or the Black Power advocates who scorned him. Continue reading