The Nation columnist Greg Kaufmann reports on the the fight in Cincinnati to end "poverty wages" for the city's 1,000 janitors.

The political scientists take a look at what the president's re-election will mean for a bitterly divided Congress.

The activist says the diversity of the winning majority holds the seeds of a new America.

The activist says we now have an opportunity to turn the campaigns that ignited a generation into an enduring force for change.

Shortly after oral arguments ended last fall, legal experts Kimberlé Crenshaw and Luke Harris explored the significance of Fisher v. University of Texas with Laura Flanders.

The Nation's Greg Kaufmann describes America's poverty problem, how it's being ignored, and what everyone should be doing about it.

Ryan and Romney repeatedly recite the number of people living in poverty or needing food stamps, using the statistics as a bludgeon against Obama’s record. But Bigfoot and Nessie are about as factual as the myths these guys spin.

In the second presidential debate, one candidate used the word “poverty” without saying anything about poverty; the other didn’t use the word at all but managed to speak a fair amount about it.

We launch our new book club with what Bill calls a “definitive examination of inequality in our time.”

Several recent studies indicates that income inequality may slow economic growth.