Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander explains what's really behind America's system of mass incarceration.

"Not even close," says social justice advocate Angela Glover Blackwell.

Princeton political scientist Martin Gilens explains how the media and longstanding racial stereotypes impact anti-poverty policy.

“Obamacare.” The right loves to hammer the Affordable Care Act with this nickname, and even the rest of us tend to use it. But we should not, for it works at least partly as a racial provocation.

The Left needs to remove its self-imposed limitations and unleash its imagination and courage.

Ian Haney López tells Bill that dog whistle politics is “the dark magic” by which middle-class voters have been seduced to vote against their own economic interests.

The GOP's Southern Strategy has yielded some success, but ultimately race is just a single variable.

One doesn't think much about suspended driver's licenses, but one lawmaker says they can have a snowball effect.

In this video clip, Ian Haney López recalls how "the great communicator" used racial tensions to sway middle-class white Americans to vote for policies not in their self-interest.

One teacher's perspective on today's data-driven education system.