Media scholar Marty Kaplan joins Bill to talk about the media and political distractions that keep us from addressing critical issues.

Marty Kaplan discusses media distractions that keep us from focusing on inequality, and Gary May puts American voting rights in historical context.

An acclaimed historian puts into perspective the 2013 Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act, which was signed into law in 1965.

ALEC-inspired bills passed in several states make it a crime to film or take photographs exposing conditions in factory farms and slaughterhouses.

In this animated video, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains why America's top one percent now take home nearly 20 percent of the country's total income.

Salon's Alex Seitz-Wald points out that almost everything "reported" about the big IRS scandal was wrong, and yet no one has been held accountable.

Learn why large chain stores like Walmart and Target might slow local economic growth, and what some communities are doing to ensure fair play.

An ATF report revealing that guns are being lost at an alarming rate would be even more alarming if the gun lobby wasn't so intent on keeping you in the dark.

Greg Kaufmann, poverty correspondent for The Nation, says the poor in America are demonized to justify huge cuts in crucial programs for low-income Americans.

Meet the Press host David Gregory ignited further controversy when he asked the journalist who broke the NSA leak story whether he should be charged with a crime.