In Maryland, a bill awaits the signature of Gov. Larry Hogan that would restore voting rights to nearly 40,000 ex-felons, and would be particularly beneficial to African Americans.

This week marks the 45th anniversary of four dead in Ohio. Senior writer Michael Winship remembers the shock of protesting students murdered in cold blood, and what happened next.

The emotional distance between Freddie Gray’s moving funeral and the chaos that followed isn’t as wide as it may seem.

Congress ignores the interests of young Americans when it comes to student loans, climate change, workplace equity and gun control.

We need to rebuild the American middle class, starting with the wealthiest and most powerful industry in our economy.

Residents fear that a new redevelopment initiative will usher in another wave of displacement.

The rise of these two groups is challenging the core American assumptions that people are paid what they’re worth, and work is justly rewarded.

Like the Islamic State, the Mexican drug cartels’ power has increased as the result of disastrous policies born in the USA.

Congress has routinely purchased new federal lands over the last 20 years while neglecting to fund the maintenance of existing national parks.

About half of all American households owned at least one gun in the 1970s. In 2014, only 31 percent had a firearm.