Those arrows aren’t hitting their lovelorn targets the way they once did. The reason? New research points to our growing economic divide.

About 80,000 people marched in North Carolina to push back against the conservative agenda, the largest protest in the South since Selma in 1965.

Journalist and creator of the TV series The Wire talks about the crisis of capitalism in America and how it's dividing our country.

In a speech delivered last year in Australia, the journalist and creator of The Wire said America is "utterly schizophrenic" when it comes to our society, economy and politics.

For the first time, working-age Americans make up a majority of food stamp recipients.

In the conclusion of Bill's conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist talks about why science literacy is critical to the future of our democracy, economy and standing in the world.

Documents indicate the US is caving on environmental standards it had previously set for international trade agreements.

The 900,000 poorest working families in North Carolina just got another tax hike from the conservatives who swept state legislature elections in 2010.

Bill discusses our country's most successful effort to cut poverty with another veteran of that fight, Peter Edelman, who is today one of the leading experts on poverty.

Conservatives have pursued a divide-and-conquer strategy intended to convince working-class whites that the poor were their enemies. It’s starting to backfire.