The New York Times profiles Anat R. Admati, the Stanford finance professor who makes "banks shudder." Watch her interview with Bill from earlier this year.

For the first time in nearly 50 years, Americans will go to the polls without a key protection under the Voting Rights Act. Congress must act to ensure every citizen can freely cast a ballot.

Supreme Court rulings on gay rights are progressively pushing forward, while decisions related to women's equality are moving in the opposite direction.

Bill's interview with the president of the conservative American Enterprise Institute provoked responses from writers and activists on the left.

New research has found that the language used to describe struggling Americans is turning off the very people it's supposed to help.

Arthur C. Brooks, the president of the American Enterprise Institute, says free enterprise is good for the poor – and good for the soul.

The chemical company behind January's massive spill is reportedly nearing a settlement in a slew of lawsuits.

The first woman on the Supreme Court cast the deciding vote in reaffirming Roe v. Wade in 1992, but things could have turned out differently.

The for-profit prison industry is plagued by problems, but dodgy "research" and a pile of lobbying dollars keeps it growing.

For years the pro-choice movement has had to battle a wide array of restrictions passed on the state level.