Initiatives in California, South Dakota and New Mexico could put key reforms in place.

In addition to advising on all three mega-mergers, Credit Suisse is playing a big role behind the scenes of the Dakota Access pipeline.

Deia Schlosberg, a filmmaker arrested for documenting a climate protest, says she believes the felony charges against her are "unjust."

The Democracy Now! host is free but a documentary maker who was also arrested for committing journalism faces a potential 45 years in prison.

In the midst of a presidential campaign circus, parents and teachers try to put the focus on state lawmakers — and kids.

Garza says even though this powerful movement is growing and evolving, the media still isn't doing enough to understand its members' diversity.

For indigenous people, the fight to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline is about reviving a way of life.

Whether or not adding your name to an online petition will make a difference to a cause depends on who created the petition, its timing, its target, its aim and what you do next.

Native Americans from tribes all over the country are protesting the construction of a crude-oil pipeline slated to snake through sacred sites and under the water supply for the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

How grass-roots organizing and economic angst is making the "S" word a political winner.