In this 2012 essay, Bill recalls his days with LBJ as they prepared to sell Medicare to Congress. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the bill.

Michael Winship recalls a tense moment with the iconoclastic writer who died on Tuesday.

The lawyer behind the Supreme Court victory outlawing mandatory life imprisonment of minors explains how age and race influence criminal justice.

Bill and Khalil Gibran Muhammad discuss what we should learn from our racial past to better understand the present.

Board of Education changes to Texas textbooks reveal a clear conservative agenda.

Bill and Khalil Gibran Muhammad discuss the importance of confronting the contradictions of America’s past.

It's important to remember that, behind the July 4th holiday, are human beings who were as flawed as they were inspired.

Forty years after Watergate, "we're back to the Nixon era" of secret money buying our elections.

In 1960, the largest number of jobs in the U.S. were manufacturing jobs. Today the sector ranks sixth. Find out what else has changed.

The handover of a U.S. military airbase in Bagram, Afghanistan has some worried about the treatment of detainees imprisoned there.