Barack Obama

What three seminal books from 1967 can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.

Citizens pledge their allegiance to a nation that reciprocates with a pledge of allegiance to them. What does that look like?

How a simple request became a bureaucratic nightmare.

While the U.S. has expanded its borders of inclusion over time, the borders of whiteness have never fallen. Only a robust black public sphere can change that.

Mavis Staples' lyrics span from the civil-rights-era to today's societal issues.

The federal government has long extended amnesty to white Americans.

Democrats like Lyndon Johnson staunchly supported Israel. Now the party is leaving that legacy behind.

HBO's “Confederate” assumes America is much further from its slaveholding past than it really is.

Today, many politicians claim a community approach means soft on crime. Birmingham's Johnnie Johnson Jr. disagrees.

We should not be surprised by the attacks on Obamacare, they are, in fact, the typical response to social reform.

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.

Commitment to liberalism once distinguished the U.S. Now, it’s the disdain of elites for their fellow citizens that sets the nation apart.

Consumer demand and government policy decimated rural America.

An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.

"Removing the flag in South Carolina was one thing, but racism exists in South Carolina as policy and social practice."

When Democrats claimed the individual mandate, Republicans lost their best idea for health-care reform.

New findings explain how Trump won them over—and why he probably wouldn’t next time.

We may be entering a post-Pentagon Papers era that shifts the power back to political elites, who are ever more emboldened to go after leakers.

You cannot have reconciliation without empathy. And you can’t have empathy unless people know the past pain that informs our present.