Historian Bernard Weisberger writes it's time retire the outworn American creed. Its hidden core of arrogance has often turned it into a kind of nationalism-on-steroids.

Those who dismiss these moments because of their flaws need to look harder at the joy and hope that shine out of them and what real changes have, historically, emerged.

Over a hundred women blocked an intersection in front of the House of Representatives to pressure representatives to stop standing in the way of immigration reform.

A series of actions that took place this summer helped to shift the climate movement's center of gravity.

Dave Zirin, The Nation magazine’s first ever sports writer, joins Bill to discuss the collision of sports with politics and why it’s not only inevitable but newsworthy, and an essay from Bill on Syria.

In this excerpt from The John Carlos Story, the bronze-medal winner recounts what went through his mind before his racial protest at the 1968 Olympic Games.

The Nation's sports editor questions whether taxpayer money should be spent to build new arenas in cities where public infrastructure dollars are scarce.

Media say it's symptomatic of a growing rural-urban divide, but that's not the whole story.

No city — and no country — should have to accept a corporation paying its experienced workers poverty wages.

Bill de Blasio’s win in New York’s primary isn’t a local story. It’s part of a vast shift that could upend three decades of American political thinking.