An aging, white Republican Party reliant upon unvarnished racism cannot survive without choosing its electorate By Jamil Smith |...

Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in his...

Fifty years after their protest in Mexico City, John Carlos and Tommie Smith have endured as symbols of dissent, even as their paths...

Mitch McConnell and his ilk must be delighted: they’ve waged a decades-long campaign to stack the courts with conservative ideologues By...

Rural areas are getting crunched, too. By Laura Paddison | HuffPost | October 2, 2018 America’s well-documented affordable housing crisis...

As the midterm elections approach, Ben Fountain argues white voters should know that a real democracy can only survive if there is true...

It seems the country is back to 1860 on the eve of the Civil War, rather than in 2018, during the greatest age of affluence, leisure and...

In 1858, Abraham Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” Today, the country remains divided by...

Don’t Let the Loud Bigots Distract You. America’s Real Problem With Race Cuts Far Deeper By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. | Time Magazine |...

Storm is generating winds of 110mph as more than 1.5m people ordered to evacuate from areas of North and South Carolina By Erin Durkin |...

How conservative operatives and Senate Republicans are helping the president pack the courts at a record pace By Andy Kroll |...

Far from being forced to the sidelines of national debate since leaving the 49ers, the quarterback’s Nike campaign shows his voice cannot...

For Robert Quinn, a humble, quiet NFL veteran who’s been raising his fist since September 2016, the gesture is meant to empower and...

For the anniversary of Till’s murder, HuffPost talked to six young black men from around the country By Ja’han Jones | HuffPost |...

‘Robert Mueller is coming for me’, Trump adviser sends email to raise funds for legal defense By  John Swaine | The Guardian | August 27,...

The senator regretted his choice of running mate. In 2008, no one could have imagined what it would mean By David Smith in Washington |...

After Michael Cohen’s day in court, the president is in very real legal jeopardy. It’s now conceivable he could be forced to resign By...

Don McGahn speaks to Mueller for 30 hours in Russia inquiry By Martin Pengelly and Ed Pilkington in New York | The Guardian | August 19,...

Regarded as one of the greatest singers of all time, Aretha Franklin has died of advanced pancreatic cancer By Laura Snapes | The...

Recent efforts to undercut the US labor movement will disproportionately affect African Americans By Caleb Gayle | The Guardian | August...