The Department of Justice announced today that it is objecting to Texas’ voter ID law and will also seek to join a similar lawsuit against the state’s redistricting maps.

The Nation's Dave Zirin writes that the speculation surrounding a kiss between victorious athletes demonstrates that the LGBT athletic community is spoiling for a fight next year in Sochi.

A new report released by the Cato Institute claims that the "current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that it acts as a disincen­tive for work.”

Advocacy groups are taking action, prodding Congress to drop loopholes and force corporations to pay what they owe.

An artist's rendering of Manhattan's skyline exposes the city's astounding wealth disparity.

Thousands of nonprofits across the United States are preparing to take advantage of what could wind up as the largest expansion of community radio in the nation’s history.

Watch the congressman and civil rights leader describe his just-released graphic novel about the fight for equality and freedom in America.

Shortly after the sweeping bill became law, the NAACP and the Advancement Project filed suit, charging that it's racially discriminatory.

The already-significant gap in wealth between white Americans and black and Latino Americans was exacerbated by the Great Recession.

Peter Dreier says the time is right for the civil rights activist with "four strikes against him" to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.