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The bipartisan push for police reform legislation recently died, though it had the support of major police groups including the Fraternal Order of Police and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

‘What has come of America?’

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted October 7, 2021 at 4:19pm
Climate change affects people in a variety of ways, but one way that is often overlooked is the affect climate change has on our ability to vote.

‘It’s always urgent when it’s about vote, voice and power’

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted September 23, 2021 at 3:36pm
Even with the option of passing sweeping legislation through budget reconciliation, infighting in the Democratic Party between progressives and moderates is threatening the passage of the budget resolution and the infrastructure bill.

Reconciliation, infrastructure and the social safety net

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted September 9, 2021 at 1:30pm
Martin Luther King III stands alongside Yolanda King, granddaughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., as she speaks during last year's March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

MLK III: ‘Listen with your ears, hear with your heart’

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted August 26, 2021 at 8:00am
House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., conducts a news conference on the coronavirus relief bill, the American Rescue Plan Act, in the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday, March 9, 2021.

‘This is about whether or not we will have a democracy or an autocracy,’ Clyburn says on voting rights

By Mary C. Curtis, Evan Campbell and Jinitzail Hernández
Posted July 29, 2021 at 9:44pm
The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church is seen after a mass shooting that killed nine people on June 22, 2015. 21-year-old Dylann Roof was convicted on 33 federal charges for the murders in the church in Charleston, which is one of the nation's oldest Black churches.

‘The flag would still be flying today’

By Mary C. Curtis, Gillian Roberts and Evan Campbell
Posted July 29, 2021 at 8:00am
8th grade science teacher instructing students.

The education gap

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted July 15, 2021 at 8:00am
A Philadelphia graffiti artist tags an ATM to call out redlining practices, exorbitant fees, and contributions to gentrification in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia.

‘The intrinsic value of whiteness’

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted June 30, 2021 at 8:00am
Signs are seen on a bench during a rally against "critical race theory" (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia.

Who is afraid of critical race theory?

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted June 17, 2021 at 8:00am
"There has not been a year when communities of color — Black and brown people, indigenous people in our country — have not suffered disproportionately," and the issue of maternal and infant health is "top of the list for ugent attention," said Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith.

Why do Black American women die having babies?

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted June 3, 2021 at 2:31pm