As the US expands its airstrikes into Syria to combat ISIS, the congresswoman calls for a "full congressional debate and vote on any military action, as required by the Constitution.”

Arguing about whether Paul Ryan is a racist is a very good thing.

He insists not, and legal scholar Ian Haney López says he hopes Ryan has learned his lesson.

The history of the phrase "inner city" seems to buttress assertions that it comes with racial connotations.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has the opportunity to listen to and learn from an advocate on the front lines of the poverty battle tomorrow. Will he take it?

The Nation's Greg Kaufmann says Senate Democrats' commitment to economically-vulnerable Americans "is about as thin as Republican cut proposals are deep."