We’re at a critical moment in our economic recovery.

The Memorial Day holiday makes the news of abuses and preventable deaths in the veterans medical system even more poignant.

The Atlantic senior editor talks about black vs. white neighborhoods, the messages we send black kids and the elementary school experience that changed him.

A bill to restore many of the VRA’s key protections remains stalled in Congress. The House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte is yet to hold a hearing on the measure.

Like the New Deal before it, the Great Society changed the way Americans thought about the relationship of the government to the economy.

Should reparations be considered? If so, what should they be, and if not, what are the alternatives?

Bill speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic about his cover story on why America needs to reconcile with its racist past.

Despite the Fair Housing Act, levels of residential segregation have barely budged in many of the large metropolitan areas where most African-Americans live. Here's why.

An unprecedented bill seeks to slap a felony charge on anyone who discloses information about fracking chemicals.

The charter school movement threatens to create two education systems, separate and unequal.