January 30, 2014 -
A new study tallies the impacts of states' refusal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act -- including the number of people expected to die as a result. The death toll is particularly heavy in the South, where most states are blocking expansion.
January 29, 2014 -
In the White House broadcast of the address, President Obama's remarks about the reality of climate change were accompanied by a slide that called out the many members of Congress who have dismissed or denied the science of climate.
January 29, 2014 -
Workers across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico will unite in an Inter-Continental Day of Action this Friday to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a controversial new trade agreement often referred to as "NAFTA on steroids."
January 28, 2014 -
When President Obama delivers his State of the Union address tonight, among the guests of First Lady Michelle Obama will be a recent graduate of Elizabeth City State University, a historically black school in North Carolina that was at the center of heated battles over voting rights last year.
January 27, 2014 -
Kellogg's profits are up. So why has the breakfast cereal giant locked out workers at its factory in Memphis, a city that has been the site of other historic labor struggles?
January 24, 2014 -
Before he became infamous for the murder of President Lincoln, the Confederate sympathizer from Maryland was an oilman who used explosives to boost well production. The technique -- refined by another man whose Civil War experiences inspired what he called the "petroleum torpedo" -- was the rock-shattering prototype for modern hydraulic fracturing.
January 24, 2014 -
A January 2010 Supreme Court decision further opened the floodgates to money in politics -- and inspired a growing grassroots push for reform.
