"Why don’t the unemployed get off their couches?" and eight other critical questions for Americans.

The debate after one man’s killing spree -- and his vow to punish the young women who rejected him -- may prove to be a watershed moment in the history of feminism.

What is this Atlantic journalist asking white people to do when it comes to the past treatment of African-Americans? Coates answers in this clip.

The Nobel Prize-winning economist explains why America’s future prosperity depends on tax reform today.

In this clip from a 1973 interview, Bill Moyers asks Maya Angelou, who died last week, about the burgeoning women’s liberation movement and what it means to her.

The journalist explains how government housing policies led blacks into the arms of fraudulent mortgage lenders and whites to dump their homes in 1960s Chicago.

For over a century, American activists have employed folk music as an instrument of change.

The Memorial Day holiday makes the news of abuses and preventable deaths in the veterans medical system even more poignant.

Like the New Deal before it, the Great Society changed the way Americans thought about the relationship of the government to the economy.

Watch two short docs from The Atlantic about African-Americans who fought back against housing discrimination in Chicago in the 1960s.