In its official 2014 platform for Texas, the GOP has gone for the chimerical bucket list of the extreme right instead of trying out real solutions to address real problems.

A new invention is helping to solve the city's water pollution problem and clean up a city landmark.

Children all over the country are participating in a unique day-camp program called 'The Game of Village' and learning how to be real and effective citizens.

Conservative members of the House Budget Committee showed up at a recent hearing on poverty to preach what they think they already know about people living in poverty.

As Detroit draws international criticism for shutting off water for low-income families, activists ask why people are being forced to pay while the Wall Street banks live large.

The Immigration Act of 1907 declared that unaccompanied children under 16 were not permitted to enter America in the normal fashion. But it didn’t send them packing, either.

In order to better the economic circumstances of their constituency, Democrats should do something they have consistently avoided: taking a side in a class war.

The author of Dog Whistle Politics argues that naturalistic assumptions about race mislead liberals in their effort to fathom race’s astringent power, shifting the focus from social dynamics to inherited essences.

Ten years ago, it was wildly controversial to talk about psychological differences between liberals and conservatives. Today, it's becoming hard not to.

For years the pro-choice movement has had to battle a wide array of restrictions passed on the state level.