If you were in the ghettoes of Newark, Detroit or scores of other cities that summer, you were not wearing flowers in your hair. Forget about utopia: You were staking out, in action, fury and bitterness.

Global demonstrations are calling on banks to divest from the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, citing human rights abuses against water protectors.

In states and municipalities across the country, voters showed strong support for getting big money out of politics and empowering ordinary citizens.

Measures to reduce the influence of money on politics could win approval in cities and states across the country Nov. 8.

This week's cartoon asks where is the outrage about gun violence in the United States that happens day in and day out?

Seasonal concession workers at AT&T Park finally got the contract they wanted and more about the Obamacare inside information that may have been illegally leaked by a Capitol Hill staffer to the SEC.

When I was 16 years old, I got my first job working the grill at McDonald’s. It punctured my bubble of economic privilege.

Activists took to the streets in over 200 coordinated vigils across 44 states last week. See the photos.

Bill Moyers, Michael Winship and TV producer David Simon share their thoughts on billionaire Tom Perkins and his $300,000 wristwatch.

Fifty years after the War on Poverty began, poverty remains a serious problem. US Census figures show that most urban areas have neighborhoods with high poverty rates.