Nearly 50 years after his death it is King's words and deeds that live on in the American memory -- not that of the racists who hated him or the Black Power advocates who scorned him.

Members of a corporate advisory committee have given big bucks to Congress over the past ten years.

Robert Reich writes that desperation for jobs is part of the reason many workers oppose better safety and health regulations for fear they might drive companies out of town.

The War on Poverty would have been won if years of gains hadn't gone to those at the top.

The legislation represents the first attempt by a bipartisan group in Congress to reinstate the vital protections of the VRA that the Supreme Court took away.

Learn more about what this week’s federal appeals court decision upturning the FCC’s rules on net neutrality means for the Internet.

This week, citizens in Georgia and South Carolina protested against their states' failure to expand Medicaid.

The recent progressive turn in many American cities was far from inevitable, but shows no sign of slowing.

In theory, everyone agrees that the government should step in to correct market failures. It's the politics that get in the way.

Bill discusses our country's most successful effort to cut poverty with another veteran of that fight, Peter Edelman, who is today one of the leading experts on poverty.