We asked our audience what kind of coverage of poverty issues they were interested in and received over 2,000 responses.

Dem disgust versus vague Team GOP unhappiness: it adds up to nervous scoreboard-watching on the left side of the national ballpark.

Global inequality, like global warming, is a disease that may be too far along to ever be cured.

In recent years, the phrase “American exceptionalism,” at once resonant and ambiguous, has stolen into popular usage in electoral politics with a profligacy that is hard to account for.

A woman filmed a now-viral video to challenge xenophobic attitudes in light of Ebola’s proliferation.

Marshall Ganz seems to think my book blames technology alone for the Internet’s failure to democratize politics. That’s far from the case.

Micah Sifry’s new book offers some answers, but misses important shifts in the power base of traditional progressive organizing.

Two experts on American elections talk to Bill about the plot to keep citizens away from the ballot box.

A teacher argues that America's schools have not “abandoned” the mission of Brown v. Board of Education, they never fully committed to it.

Read an excerpt from Marilynne Robinson's award-winning book of essays.