With the pop-verse watching, Whitney Houston’s 21-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, is on life support in a…

A lot of smart people have accumulated quite a bit of data showing how many people, and who specifically, have…

You'd think that, as stressed out as parents are over child care, the exorbitant cost might be one of those things…

Philosophically, President Obama would give us all four free years of a college education if he could.

It’s not only a brand-new year; it’s also a brand-spanking-new 114th Congress: Fasten your seat belts, fam, because…

It’s that time of the year to start making sense of the next: predictions. And there is no subject about which this…

Should we just get rid of grand juries altogether? That’s a big question many folks are rightly asking, from average…

It’s not as if state-sanctioned torture is anything new. Include the last 400-odd years of black victimization and…

Justifiable outrage and protests are sweeping through major cities like a Hunger Games brush fire. Traffic jams and…

The last thing any sane or seasoned political observer expected from a president who just underwent a…

More than a week later, we’re still trying to figure this one out: How much of an impact did voting restrictions…

The next two years will be twisted in knots—for Democrats, for Republicans and for the “black electorate.”…

Making sense of high-profile House, Senate and gubernatorial races this tight will mean breaking down every voting…

Is it a recovering economy or not? That’s one of the great, persistent mysteries stumping modern economists and…

What we do know is this year’s midterm Senate races will be tight—what we don’t know is just how tight. Despite…

Ebola had been on blast since the spring, but despite the thousands of West Africans dying from it, few in the U.S.…

Let the appointment games begin. It may not be the kitchen-table topic of choice, but President Barack Obama’s…

The 2016 presidential race hasn’t officially started yet, but we all know the presumptive contenders for party…

The News: Republican lawmakers are jockeying to succeed Rep. Eric Cantor as House majority leader following his…

Alabama Plays Both Sides of Voting Rights, With Blacks in the Middle