The history of the phrase "inner city" seems to buttress assertions that it comes with racial connotations.

HuffPo compares the realities people at the lower end of the labor market face with Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) rhetoric about the joys of making $7.25 per hour as a fry chef or a dishwasher.

America now ranks 98th in the world for percentage of women in its national legislature. Could policies in Europe help America close the gap?

Watch highlight clips from Bill's interview with author and legal scholar Ian Haney López on the origins of dog whistle politics and how it may be used in future elections.

After struggling for weeks to comply with the Texas anti-choice law, the last abortion clinics of East Texas and the Rio Grande Valley are closing.

The idea is popular, so low-wage employers have come up with a number of red herrings.

In this book excerpt, Ian Haney López explains why -- for conservatives -- alleging that they've been called racist is a good strategy.

Twenty-six years after the infamous Willie Horton ad, race-based politics blocked Debo Adegbile's passage to head the Justice Department's civil rights division.

Bill continues his conversation with author and legal scholar Ian Haney López about how politicians use strategic racism to win votes.

Sen. Bernie Sanders says that FDR's 1944 State of the Union speech is a model for what he would like to do for America's middle class. In this post, historian Harvey J. Kaye remembers what FDR had to say.