Historian Harvey J. Kaye on why we must look to America’s progressive past to fix our future.

If America's torture program turns out to be worse than we knew, then we would expect -- and should hope -- to see more "emotional" responses in the future.

Replay our live chat with the historian and author about the ongoing fight for FDR’s Four Freedoms.

As a young special assistant to Lyndon Johnson, Bill was a witness to the cooperation between Martin Luther King Jr. and the president that led to the Act's passage.

The school-to-prison pipeline is the most insidious arm of this country’s prison-industrial complex, writes Mychal Denzel Smith.

The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates separates reality from fiction.

As Senator Feinstein has revealed, the CIA will not only stall but even spy on Congress to impede its investigation of wrongdoing.

A new study looks at historical examples of ancient civilizations that failed and concludes that we may be headed in that direction.

He insists not, and legal scholar Ian Haney López says he hopes Ryan has learned his lesson.

"Sometimes the right thing to do in ordinary times is exactly the wrong thing to do in extraordinary times."