Our measurements of poverty have changed since Robert F. Kennedy’s historic presidential campaign, but the poor and marginalized still need a champion.

Chris Matthews’s cri de coeur for a time and a spirit that is hard to imagine now.

Ninety-one percent of respondents to our survey told us that living in a democracy was either extremely or very important to them.

A new study from The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the actual number of people who died in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria is close to 5,000.

The presidency has become a cult to which we are expected to constantly direct our attention; the result is a disenchantment with democracy.

Apparently, just about everything contributes to gun mayhem in the United States—but not the 300 million guns themselves.