The housing crisis has been raging since 2007, but the efforts to address the problem have simply dragged the crisis out longer and longer.read more

Our state and federal governments should be boosting programs to help the poor, not cutting back on them.read more

Instead of scoring partisan political points, our elected officials must do what the people want and need: Create jobs now.read more

It was 40 years ago this month that Marvin Gaye’s legendary album, “What’s Going On,” was released. The album, now considered a masterpiece of music and social commentary, remains all-too relevant today.read more

A society is not healthy when a few people are chugging along economically and everyone else is barely making it on fumes.read more

Dec. 12 marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous Bush v. Gore decision.read more

Candidates this season must stop ignoring a huge moral issue: poverty.read more

It should do away with mandatory minimums and allow judges to treat every person as an individual. It should invest in the lives of young people so they don’t get involved in drugs. And it should focus on substance abuse treatment for those who get hooked.read more

Even the late William Rehnquist, a solidly conservative Supreme Court chief justice, acknowledged Marshall’s impact on the nation’s laws when he noted years ago that Marshall rewrote the “American constitutional landscape.”read more

The main problem with the plan is it is again driven by incentives; it does not mandate that the banks do anything. They don’t have to rework a single loan; it is all voluntary.read more

We are fortunate that half a century ago, in Greensboro, N.C., four black freshmen from North Carolina A & T University made history.read more

It’s an eerie time to be celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.read more

The public option is dying, and President Obama should be implicated in its death.read more

Over the last month, with all the focus on those rude reactionaries yelling in the faces of elected officials at town hall meetings, you might get the mistaken impression that they represent the majority.read more

The federal government must address hate crimes in a meaningful way. A major hate crimes bill, The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes/ Matthew Shephard Act, quietly vetoed in 2007 during Christmas break by President Bush, has passed the House of Representatives, and is up for a vote by the Senate.read more