SCOTUS' decision invalidating a key provision of the Voting Rights Act has proved disastrous.

And Kentucky isn't an outlier.

'Climate change is one of the gravest crises our planet has ever faced,' said Bristol County DA Sam Sutter. 'In my humble opinion, the political leadership on this issue has been gravely lacking.'

In a blunt ruling handed down on Thursday, a federal judge in New Orleans found that the biggest oil spill in US history, the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, was caused by BP’s “willful misconduct” and “gross negligence."

As we continue to segregate by income, the rest of us will have to answer questions like the ones Detroit and its suburbs are facing, eventually.

Whether or not you get ahead in 21st century America depends on where you started.

The GOP, facing demographic headwinds, is rewriting laws to maintain its viability.

All sorts of painful new crowd control weapons could be coming soon to a protest near you.

This week, the state with the strictest voter ID law defends it in federal court.

Let's hope that Michael Brown's death is the one that finally pierces the national conscience with the essential truth that racial violence kills people.