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  1. The Bigger Dog Whistle Bogeyman: Liberal Government Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., gives a thumbs-up at a rally. August 2012. (AP Photo/Jason E. Miczek)
    3 Mar 2014 … The conservative assault on food stamps -- authored by Reagan, updated by Ryan -- is really an attack on the middle class. Continue reading
  2. The Four Major Third-Party Candidates on What’s Missing From the National Dialogue Ralph Nader, election 2004
    10 Oct 2004 … We hear from four candidates excluded from presidential debates: Ralph Nader (Reform Party), Michael Peroutka (Constitution Party), David Cobb (Green Party), and Michael Badnarik (Libertarian Party). Continue reading
  3. The Nation’s Most Segregated City
    1 Jan 2013 … Much has been written about the decline in crime in the United States over the past twenty years. The violent crime rate in 1980 was almost five times 1960s’ rate and it remained depressingly high for a decade. But in the early Continue reading
  4. Recommended Reading: Abortion Before and After Roe v. Wade The largest pro-choice rally to ever assemble demonstrates against any possible Supreme Court reversal of the Roe v. Wade decision: Nov. 12, 1989. (Photo by Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis via Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2017 … In 1965, illegal abortions made up one-sixth of all pregnancy- and childbirth-related deaths, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Today, more than four decades after the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalized abortion nationwide, it is an extremely safe Continue reading
  5. Behold: A Republican Health Care Plan
    1 Jan 2014 … The problem is that it’s grounded in the same old conservative thinking about what ails our health care system. Continue reading
  6. How Class-Conscious Women Garment Workers Shaped the Movement for Women’s Suffrage
    8 Aug 2020 … Rose Schneiderman, Clara Lemlich, and Leonora O’Reilly are not household names like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but these working-class suffragists were indispensable to winning women’s right to vote in New York state in 1917. Continue reading
  7. 50 Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed FILE - In this March 21, 1965 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King, foreground row, fifth from right, waves as marchers stream across the Alabama River on the first of a five day, 50-mile march to the state capitol at Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/File)
    3 Mar 2015 … Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground. Continue reading
  8. Trump Is Trying to Cut Disaster Relief to Build a Border Wall Rescue workers and volunteers help to rescue residents of an apartment complex after it was inundated with water following Hurricane Harvey on Aug. 30, 2017 in Houston. Harvey, which made landfall north of Corpus Christi August 25, has dumped nearly 50 inches of rain in and around Houston. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2017 … On Monday, President Donald Trump was asked point-blank whether he supports cutting the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) budget in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. His response: “No.” Continue reading
  9. The Stereotypes of People Who Get Welfare Benefits Are All Wrong David Donald, 6, of Philadelphia eats dinner supplied from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also know as food stamps (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    12 Dec 2013 … These common assumptions threaten programs that keep families afloat. Continue reading
  10. Kansas Republicans Are Finally Embracing Obamacare — Just as Trump Is Trying to Kill It
    3 Mar 2017 … While Republicans in DC are pushing for massive cuts to Medicaid, John Eplee and other Republicans in one of the country's most conservative states are fighting to expand the program. Eplee is a family doctor in Atchison, Kansas — a Continue reading