Come 2028, Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy might be a very lucky man. In the presidential primary era, four non-incumbent Democratic nominees became president: Jimmy Carter (1976), Bill Clinton ...

The Supreme Court may extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality.

We cannot deny our ugly history with racial discrimination in this country, especially as it pertains to access to the ...

Republican-backed funding cuts go way beyond NPR and PBS. Radio and TV stations from Alaska to the Allegheny Mountains may ...

Growing up, The Wild, Wild West was one of my favorite shows. I always turned it on after coming home from school — it was ...

On Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most consequential victories in ...

Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the ...

The root of the ban extends back to 1954. Then-Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) was running for re-election and faced a primary challenge from a wealthy rancher and oilman. A nonprofit conservative ...

Gov. JB Pritzker in Springfield on Aug. 6 called the Texas House Democrats who fled the state for Illinois to thwart a Republican quorum to vote on a controversial congressional redistricting plan ...

The root of the ban extends back to 1954. Then-Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) was running for re-election and faced a primary challenge from a wealthy rancher and oilman. A nonprofit conservative ...