Republicans have since turned their attention to additional pillars of the social safety net.

Across central Florida, long stretches of forest, quiet waterways and walking trails follow a route that was never supposed ...

Black Democratic primary voters could pump the brakes on their party’s race to socialism. It’s a role this important Democratic voting bloc has played before, keeping Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) away ...

Healthy food is hard to come by in many sections of the country. Especially on a food stamp budget. How many cities have the ...

Here is a look at the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which serves to protect and enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments. It was enacted in response to voter suppression in the 1960s by state governments, ...

A recent article by a certain Republican philanthropist noted that Abraham Lincoln, who emancipated enslaved people, was a Republican, while slave owners were Democrats. This is historically accurate, ...

James Means Jr., one of the first Black athletes at the University of Texas — he integrated the Southwest Conference in 1964 ...

On July 28, 2010, a plane flying in intense fog and rain to Islamabad crashed in the Himalayan foothills near its destination ...

Slate spoke with a number of surviving family members of civil rights martyrs. All of them were devastated by the court’s ...

A Kentucky reporter who covered McConnell for decades argued that the 84-year-old senator is “every bit the detestable figure ...

If you wondered how communism has grabbed a foothold in the United States of America of all places, look no further than the ...

On the one hand, Nixonmania is a necessary corrective to the image propagated by the media over the past 50 years. His critics, basing their arguments mostly on hysteria and liberal hand-wringing, ...