September 24, 2014 -
A new searchable website features 175,000 photographs collected during the New Deal era, offering a compelling portrait of life in towns across the South and country.
September 23, 2014 -
With voter registration deadlines looming in many states, a network of more than 2,000 groups launches an initiative to sign up voters for November.
September 22, 2014 -
In the largest union vote in the country this year, 86 percent of passenger service agents voted in a favor of a union that will cover 14,500 workers, more than half in the South.
September 19, 2014 -
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to gather in New York City on Sept. 21 for the biggest climate protest in U.S. history, preceding the start of the U.N. Climate Summit on Sept. 23. The gatherings come as the cost of climate change-related disasters is climbing -- especially in the South.
September 19, 2014 -
The South is the country's fastest-growing region, and transplants from elsewhere may be changing the region's political leanings.
September 18, 2014 -
Homeless men were bused to a public hearing on fracking in western North Carolina to boost the appearance of support for the controversial drilling technique. The men were wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the name of the N.C. Energy Coalition, a front for big oil and gas interests.
September 17, 2014 -
A new study into what causes long voting lines has found that race plays a role in who waits the longest. It also found that states may be breaking their own laws by failing to invest adequate resources in elections.
