May 28, 2009 -
Jim Stephenson, the policy director of the North Carolina Coastal Federation, died early today of an apparent stroke or heart attack. He was 57.
May 28, 2009 -
Speaking yesterday to an American Legion youth program in Jackson, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he has thought about running for president -- but that he won't think about it anymore until after 2010.
May 28, 2009 -
By James Perry, Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
May 27, 2009 -
A new report by hunger-relief charity Feeding America provides the first state-by-state analysis of early childhood hunger in the United States
May 27, 2009 -
Political pundits routinely dismiss the South as a region that's losing relevance -- but the U.S. public appears to have missed the memo.
May 26, 2009 -
With the Supreme Court now considering one of the most serious challenges to the 1965 Voting Rights Act in history -- and states battling over election law, like voter ID in Texas --