A broad coalition of unions and progressive groups is trying to start a revolution in education.

Poor families are bearing a greater burden of rising college costs than those from wealthier families, according to a new analysis of federal education cost data.

While working on her book, Dragnet Nation, investigative reporter Julia Angwin learned how exposed her children were on the Internet, and ways to protect their privacy.

HuffPo compares the realities people at the lower end of the labor market face with Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) rhetoric about the joys of making $7.25 per hour as a fry chef or a dishwasher.

After struggling for weeks to comply with the Texas anti-choice law, the last abortion clinics of East Texas and the Rio Grande Valley are closing.

The idea is popular, so low-wage employers have come up with a number of red herrings.

In this book excerpt, Ian Haney López explains why -- for conservatives -- alleging that they've been called racist is a good strategy.

Twenty-six years after the infamous Willie Horton ad, race-based politics blocked Debo Adegbile's passage to head the Justice Department's civil rights division.

Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander explains what's really behind America's system of mass incarceration.

Princeton political scientist Martin Gilens explains how the media and longstanding racial stereotypes impact anti-poverty policy.