The Southern Poverty Law Center announced the launch of its 2026 Vote Your Voice grant cycle, opening applications for three funding opportunities.

Capping rent increases, increasing the minimum wage, and banning corporate money in politics are just some of the issues two ...

This shift has a coherent political logic. Democrats have grown increasingly dependent on upper middle-class support — while ...

A region long defined by frontier myths now sets a national example for electing women to real political power ...

At first glance, there is little to suggest that Kapese, a dusty settlement of traditional manyattas and free-roaming livestock scattered across the parched landscape of northern Kenya’s Turkana ...

The cost of basics like housing and food rose, while incomes and other resources, like public benefits, did not keep up.

Nearly 2.2 million New Yorkers lived in poverty in 2024, a slight increase from the year before, while hundreds of thousands of others struggled to keep food on the table, pay their rent or have money ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — Poverty in New York has reached its highest level in more than a decade, according to the latest Poverty Tracker report from the Robin Hood Foundation and Columbia University.

Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...

The Covid-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official US count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths.

Lawyers representing alleged Antifa members tried to discredit an anti-Antifa witness by citing the SPLC, which carries water ...