The Chicago Workers Collaborative works to fight racial discrimination and to improve wages and working conditions for temp laborers in the city.

Farmers markets and CSAs aren't enough, says Wendell Berry's daughter.

House Republicans were willing to shut down the government over Obamacare. We take a look back at other critics and roadblocks to social programs that are popular today.

The DOJ case comes on the heels of three lawsuits filed by civil rights groups in August challenging North Carolina’s extreme voting restrictions.

Here are some things you can do right now to forge a path toward a more democratic, equal and ecologically sustainable society.

The head of Greenpeace International talks with Bill Moyers about the best and worst case scenarios for the Greenpeace activists taken into custody by Russian authorities.

Pope Francis's recent interview was interpreted by many as a "new direction" for the Catholic church and could have significant consequences for American political debates.

Over two percent of American adults are barred from the voting booth. This kind of widespread disenfranchisement can have a significant electoral impact.

The long history of bogus social movements in service of the plutocracy.

For-profit colleges are using lobbying muscle and campaign contributions to tip the scales in their favor while students and veterans suffer and taxpayers foot the bill.