Dave Zirin ponders how city leaders justify spending money on a new hockey arena over fixing city schools or restoring streetlights.

While visiting the spot of his 1963 March on Washington speech, Rep. John Lewis, along with Bill Moyers, conducts a spontaneous lesson in civil rights history.

Rep. John Lewis talks with Bill about his experience speaking at the 1963 March on Washington.

Baldemar Velásquez discusses the struggle to ensure fairness for American farmworkers, and Tom Diaz describes how self-defense and concealed-carry laws makes us more vulnerable to gun violence.

Gun industry analyst Tom Diaz talks about the big business of "enhanced lethality."

Tom Diaz describes how a lethal combination of self-defense laws and concealed-carry laws makes us more vulnerable to gun violence.

The role the “stand your ground” law played in George Zimmerman's acquittal has become the subject of renewed and fervent attention.

Two decades in the making, the intimate story of two American families struggling to find their places in the new economy.

Many of our patriotic verses were penned by progressives, and their most important note may be this: people can disagree with their government and still love their country.

An ATF report revealing that guns are being lost at an alarming rate would be even more alarming if the gun lobby wasn't so intent on keeping you in the dark.