When other Democrats supported state executions, Cuomo made a forceful moral argument against it.

An environmental law expert says agencies like the EPA are meant to represent the public interest -- not corporations and moneyed interests. But that's exactly what is happening.

While much of our "national discussion" of race is a shoutfest, Bill's taken a different approach to a tough subject.

"It’s simply no longer fashionable to use the racist language of savagery to describe, imagine and stereotype Native American peoples as different and alien from the rest of us here in America."

Today, South Africa's healing process is a beacon of hope for the United States.

The tradition began with a typo and a cold warrior with a sense of holiday cheer.

The Hollywood Christmas classic was once accused of hiding a subversive Communist message.

In light of the CIA torture report, it's the perfect time to reflect on Orwell's essay, "Politics and the English Language."

In this excerpt from Steve Fraser's new book, The Age of Acquiescence, the historian wonders why people in the second Gilded Age aren't fighting back the way they did the first time.

Torture was not the work of a few “bad apples” – in the CIA or the military – but the result of official policy set at the government’s highest levels.