Today's capital punishment and racial injustice are 'direct descendants of lynching.'

The Federal Election Commission is hearing testimony today on the Supreme Court's McCutcheon v. FEC decision.

We should be using government resources to meet newer and broader challenges, not downsizing them to ease the tax burdens of the wealthy and corporations.

They claim they're looking out for "people struggling through stagnant wages." But those are the very people who rely on public transportation most.

The moral of this story is that a caring America is entirely within reach.

This is more than just bad journalism, it's an affront to all who lost their lives in a brutal and bloody deception.

It's not enough for family policy programs to care for kids while their parents are at work. They have to support the families at home, too.

Companies like Uber, TaskRabbit and Amazon's Mechanical Turk aim to use people more efficiently. Instead we should focus on allocating work and its gains more decently.

Follow one young woman's evolution from student activist into a leading voice against the merchandising of Native American symbols in sports.

To show the reality of hunger, mothers participating in the Witness to Hunger program photograph their daily experiences living in poverty.