Women are much more likely to have minimum-wage jobs than men and female-headed households are more likely to be poor.

Individuals taxpayers will give the IRS its biggest boost on April 18, so we should know what the government is doing with our money (but that doesn't mean we have to like it).

A court that consistently decides all relevant cases on behalf of corporate interests undermines its own legitimacy, as well as the Constitution.

Bill, an 11-year-old at the time of FDR's death, reflects on his father's reaction to the news that the president had passed away.

Rand Paul's blinkered vision will make it almost impossible for him to grapple with how racial resentment fuels support for the libertarian politics he fervently espouses.

An interview with Steven Teles, author of The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement.

Listen to President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlining the Four Freedoms to Congress in 1941.

Historian Harvey J. Kaye on why we must look to America’s progressive past to fix our future.

Our latest roundup of key money and politics reporting. This week: McCutcheon fallout, voting rights and Piketty's book.

If America's torture program turns out to be worse than we knew, then we would expect -- and should hope -- to see more "emotional" responses in the future.