The new ruling, to which all six conservative justices signed on, suggests that, in practice, almost no federal protections remain for non-white voters, even in extreme cases.

LaTosha Brown of Black Voters Matter is issuing a nationwide call to action for anyone who cares about voting rights and preserving our democracy.

Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.

As I sit down to write this, I’m looking at an iPad showing an overflow crowd of people gathered on the south side of the South Carolina State House.

“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”

ALT: a black and white drawing of charlie brown and lucy brown from the peanuts comic strip

The United Daughters of the Confederacy set out to make slavery respectable again by promoting ‘the lost cause’

From Instagram poetry to Greek classics, the works of fiction that have caused uproar through history – and into the present

One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...