Fifty years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court established the absolute right to counsel in criminal cases. It’s a right we must continue to defend.read more

She was an extraordinary human being, and we’re all in her debt.read more

Hold the high-fives. President Obama’s apparent victory on the fiscal cliff is more like a late-game touchdown that is still being reviewed by replay officials.read more

The Republican Party’s infamous “Southern Strategy” is dying out, and that’s a good thing.read more

Fifty-five years ago, nine African-American children wanted to get a good education in Little Rock, Ark. We should salute them today not just for integrating all-white Central High School but also for helping to tear down the old walls of racism.read more

Forty years after the break-in at the Watergate, our democratic institutions need to be put in better working order or we risk more abuses at the hands of the executive branch.read more

Amid all of this change, there is unfounded fear and outright hatred.read more

On April 6, 1712, African slaves in New York City rose up with anger and fury. These African men and women — enslaved and oppressed into an inhuman system — had reached the breaking point.read more

The housing crisis has been raging since 2007, but the efforts to address the problem have simply dragged the crisis out longer and longer.read more

Our state and federal governments should be boosting programs to help the poor, not cutting back on them.read more

Instead of scoring partisan political points, our elected officials must do what the people want and need: Create jobs now.read more

It was 40 years ago this month that Marvin Gaye’s legendary album, “What’s Going On,” was released. The album, now considered a masterpiece of music and social commentary, remains all-too relevant today.read more

A society is not healthy when a few people are chugging along economically and everyone else is barely making it on fumes.read more

Dec. 12 marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous Bush v. Gore decision.read more

Candidates this season must stop ignoring a huge moral issue: poverty.read more