It is time for Congress to step up — to investigate exactly what the Trump administration is doing overtly and covertly, and to call for a return to diplomacy before it is too late.

The right to vote is under systematic assault once more.

Surely, after more than five decades we have learned that Cubans, proud of their revolution and their independence, will resist economic or military coercion

When politicians can pick their voters — by voter suppression laws, by gerrymandering, by big money campaigns — rather than voters picking their leaders, democracy is mocked

They won’t get everything they want, but what they get will leave America more unequal, more vulnerable, with greater poverty and despair from Chicago’s inner cities to Appalachia’s rural hollows

For all the progress we have made on race in this country, there is still a stark difference between black and white poverty

(June 30, 2009) — New Haven, Conn., is a city in which African Americans and Hispanics account for nearly 60 percent of…

The air crackles with anticipation. Fingers are crossed. It gets hard to breathe. Hope, for so long locked in a closet,…

April 4 marks the 40th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King’s assassination. Forty years later, his dream has been remembered and…

Can Democrats get the votes they need simply because they’re not Republicans? You might think so in this presidential campaign. African-American…