To mark the 49th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, civil rights advocates are asking members of Congress to strengthen the law’s core protection.

Last week, a federal judge denied a preliminary injunction to block key provisions of the state’s new voting law, widely described as the most onerous in the country.

Software created by the controversial UK based Gamma Group International was used to spy on computers that appear to be located in the United States.

For the first time in nearly 50 years, Americans will go to the polls without a key protection under the Voting Rights Act. Congress must act to ensure every citizen can freely cast a ballot.

Supreme Court rulings on gay rights are progressively pushing forward, while decisions related to women's equality are moving in the opposite direction.

Moyers & Company's senior writer reflects on the week President Nixon resigned, and what America has since forgotten about Watergate.

The release of a long-delayed investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency’s post-9/11 interrogation methods was held up yet again on Tuesday after the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee objected to the amount of information that had been censored by the Obama administration.

Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp, a leader of the debt ceiling showdown, takes friendly fire.

As an inquiry into the complex subject of international terrorism, the 9/11 Commission's 10th anniversary reprise falls far short — but it does serve official DC's purpose.

Despite a new report that the danger has eased, experts warn that another banking crisis could happen anytime.