The reason veterans should not experience poverty is not because they are veterans. It's because no one should.

The protests in Ferguson and New York City captured the nation's attention, but there were other demonstrations and initiatives that should not be overlooked.

In this excerpt from Steve Fraser's new book, The Age of Acquiescence, the historian wonders why people in the second Gilded Age aren't fighting back the way they did the first time.

In June 2013, Bill Moyers joined Stephen Colbert to discuss "Two American Families," a Frontline documentary on the disappearing middle class. Watch what happens.

Americans are fed up now with the powers that be, just as they were in the First Gilded Age. So why aren't people rising up to the same degree today?

Who are the new Dylans, Public Enemys, Simones and De La Rochas of 2014?

Watch video from the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the state of civil rights in response to the recent killings of unarmed black men by white police officers.

Protests against racist injustice — triggered by the failure of the criminal justice system to indict the killers of Michael Brown and Eric Garner — has propelled Obama to recall his community organizing roots.

Why would you believe the accounts given by eyewitnesses to Michael Brown’s slaying, but not believe the testimony of many women who say they were raped in the same way by the same man?

Protesters spilled into the streets of New York and other cities over the past two nights. The NYPD arrested 223 in clashes.