The new movie on the Boston Globe's exposé of pedophilia in the Catholic Church shows why good journalism is essential in our times.

The author accepts the National Book Award for "Between the World and Me," and talks about the person who inspired it -- a friend who was mistaken for a criminal and killed by police.

Wealth inequality in the United States is pervasive — so much so that it’s apparent even in Congress.

Articles and analysis as the world comes to terms with Friday's terrorism in Paris.

Now taxpayers may have to foot the bill. But whats to keep it from happening again?

Advocates see recent ballot initiative successes as a sign that Americans are ready for change at the state and local level, even as Congress remains deadlocked.

As the “middle class” hollows out, whites who started life under relatively promising circumstances are finally seeing the floor fall out under them.

Making it affordable to live in the famously unequal Santa Clara County is much easier said than done.

It's the result of "rules intentionally tipped to reward those already on the highest rungs of the ladder.”

The director discusses his film exploring morality in the shadow of the foreclosure crisis.