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  1. ‘God and Government: The Battle Over Faith-Based Initiatives’ and Pakistan’s Role in the War on Terror President Bush holds a joint press conference with Pakistan President GEn. Pervez Musharraf, Friday, Sept. 22, 2006, in the East Room at the White House in Washington. President Bush met Friday with Musharraf, who has claimed a U.S. official threatened an attack on his Muslim nation if it did not cooperate in the war on terror. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
    9 Sep 2003 … Increasingly, faith-based organizations are getting taxpayer money to help Americans in trouble. Supporters say these groups have had success housing the homeless, educating children and caring for AIDS patients, the disabled and the elderly — often stepping in to help Continue reading
  2. Trump Voters and I Have One Thing in Common: We’re Scared of Losing Medicaid Health care justice advocates and other grass-roots groups gather outside Trump Tower in New York to demand that Trump not agree to repeal the Affordable Care Act or attempt to defund Medicare or Medicaid. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2017 … I recently read about a county in Kentucky that is typical of the kinds of depressed white communities that have dominated the news since Trump’s election. Owsley County is 83 percent white, mostly rural, and rigidly conservative. Continue reading
  3. The Department of Justice Is Overseeing the Resegregation of American Schools Sandra Ray (right) helps her granddaughter Tyanna Ray settle into her locker at Bragg Middle School in Gardendale, Alabama on Aug. 3, 2016. Ray is one of several plaintiffs involved opposing the planned separation of schools in the Gardendale City limits from the Jefferson County School system. (Photo by Linda Davidson /The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … On weekends, North Smithfield Manor smells like freshly cut grass, as men venture out under the Alabama sun to tend to their lawns. Kids race their bikes up and down the neighborhood’s hilly streets. Leslie Williams, a 34-year-old mother of Continue reading
  4. 50 Years Later, Not Nearly Enough Progress for Working-Class Women
    2 Feb 2013 … "Far from having it all, most working women live in danger of losing it all," writes activist Ellen Bravo. Continue reading
  5. What Is a Country Worth Fighting For? One hundred immigrants become American citizens during a naturalization ceremony at Liberty State Park on Sept. 17, 2015 . The group, representing 30 countries, took the oath of allegiance to the United States on US Citizenship Day — part of some 36,000 people United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) planned to nationalize nationwide during the week of Sept. 17-23. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2017 … Many of the folks I know are getting ready to play serious defense in 2017, and they’re not wrong. Before we take up our three-point stance on the national line of scrimmage, however, maybe we should ask ourselves not only Continue reading
  6. Ferguson: The Fire This Time Holding a camera and wearing a “Don’t Shoot” sign, Antoine Wallace raises his hands while leaning against a New York City police car during a protest march in New York, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael R. Sisak)
    8 Aug 2014 … Because of the persistence of racism and a relaxation of the fight against it, we are moving backwards. Ferguson is just the latest illustration. Continue reading
  7. Think Tank Report Says Poor Americans Have It Too Good
    8 Aug 2013 … A new report released by the Cato Institute claims that the "current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that it acts as a disincen­tive for work.” Continue reading
  8. Moore Is Less: Alabama, the Senate and the Nation Will Suffer A sign at a campaign rally for Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore at Oak Hollow Farm on Dec. 5, 2017 in Fairhope, Alabama. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2017 … Amid all the craziness surrounding Roy Moore’s race for the US Senate and the seeming willingness of Alabama’s likely voters to send a man of such dubious merit and morality to Capitol Hill (where, admittedly, the bar already is pretty Continue reading
  9. The Minimum Wage For Tipped Workers Hasn’t Increased Since the Fall of the Soviet Union In this June 2, 2014 photo, Wendy Harrison, a waitress at the icon Grill in Seattle, carries food to a table as she works during lunchtime. An Associated Press comparison of the cost of living at several other major U.S. cities found that a $15 minimum wage, like Seattle adopted this week, will make a difference, but won’t buy a lavish lifestyle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
    7 Jul 2014 … A new study debunks some of the most common myths about America's tipped workforce. Continue reading
  10. Deep Dig — Best Investigative Journalism
    1 Jan 2017 … We're digging for gold in the vast shallows of the Internet. Starting this week, we're regularly rounding up some of the best investigative reporting that you might otherwise miss. Continue reading