The criminalization of poverty in America Professor Peter Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center in…

HAS THE SOUTH AGAIN RISEN TO DESTROY AMERICAN DEMOCRACY? We talk with filmmakers DON GOLDMACHER and FRANCES CAUSEY, and with election protection activist JOHN BRAKEY…

Oklahoma As the proverb goes, no self-respecting Cherokee would ever be without a corn patch. But since the Trail of Tears, the nation had forgotten…

Here are three scenes from the history of slavery in North America. In 1637, a group of Pequot Indians, men and boys, having risen up…

On ‘Constitution and Citizenship Day,’ Dred Scott Decision Still Relevant On this day in 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document in Philadelphia—a…

s historians begin to assess Barack Obama’s record as president, there’s at least one legacy he’ll leave that will indeed be historic—but not in the…

“The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.”…

Robert A. Williams Jr. is a member of the Lumbee Indian tribe and a professor of law at the University of Arizona Indigenous Peoples Law…

During the height of the 2008 presidential campaign, I paid a visit to what was then an annual gathering of the Conservative Caucus, a right-wing…

“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” ~ Betty Friedan More and more older Americans are feeling the call…