While the produce is coddled, the workers face a different reality, with conditions that often approach slavery.

Holiday bells are silent in the homes of America’s struggling working poor, while CEOs’ Christmas plums are super-sugared with record-breaking corporate profits.

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

The national focus on flaws in our criminal justice system this year could lead to stronger reforms in 2015.

This year will be remembered as a turning point, when those in charge of the multibillion-dollar athletic-industrial complex saw their control over the levers of power slip in a decisive fashion.

Change is possible even in high-volume, urban justice systems.

"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."

Some protests are ignored and forgotten while others dominate the news cycle for weeks, becoming touchstones in political life.

Our timeline shows how modern concepts of American Indian rights continue to stem from outdated models of thought.

Legal expert Robert A. Williams Jr. talks to Bill about why the Supreme Court justices do not "want Indian cases," Hollywood's use of "savage" imagery and the Redskins.