"Our gear wasn’t just protective, it was meant to be downright unwelcoming."

People in more than 90 cities around the country took to the streets on Thursday to protest the police shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager in Missouri.

A roundup of some key articles about Ferguson, and the militarization of American policing.

In this second of two programs celebrating the life and work of the late writer, Bill Moyers revisits a 1988 conference on evil.

Despite its high minimum wage, San Francisco has the second-highest rate of income inequality among major US cities.

It's not just Ferguson -- the War on Terror has reshaped police departments across the country to look like invading armies.

Grady Flores’ one-year sentence is the result of a strange legal sleight of hand that positions the Hancock Air Base commander, Col. Earl A. Evans, as the victim of protests.

To mark the 49th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, civil rights advocates are asking members of Congress to strengthen the law’s core protection.

"Inversions" are particularly unpatriotic for companies like these two health care giants that profit heavily from government spending.

Laws criminalizing sitting, sleeping, lying down and camping leave homeless people with nowhere to go when the shelter system fails them.