•In one year, the top 1% — 3.5 million citizens — increased their wealth by $4 trillion, hitting a record $52 trillion. •In ...

Debo, Puedo y Quiero (I Must, I Can, I Will) offers the most intimate look ever at the life of Mexico's most beloved artist.

Netflix’s new documentary reveals death row interviews with Aileen Wuornos, one of the most famous female serial killers in American history.

Before it became a cultural landmark, Chinatown was built on New York’s most notorious slum. This documentary uncovers its ...

While the Presidency is today associated with wealth and fame, many early U.S. Presidents came from humble backgrounds and ...

Not long ago, obesity was popularly considered a disease of affluence — the product of excess and overindulgence. Today, obesity is increasingly recognized as a disease of poverty, rooted in ...

What happens when you grow up poor in America—and stay in touch with the same filmmaker for more than a decade? In this episode of The FRONTLINE Dispatch podcast, host Raney Aronson-Rath speaks with ...

Time availability can impact the development of dementia perhaps as much as diet and exercise, according to a panel of scientists. The group says its research should cause a paradigm shift in the ...

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — “Using Evidence to Fight Poverty in America” will be the topic of the 13th annual Hesburgh Lecture presented by the Stockton Center on Successful Aging on Oct. 21.

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on crime solutions from Katie Hill and Jens Ludwig of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. Read Part 1 here. Some of our fellow Chicagoans have come ...

Gender equality stands at a defining moment. The choices made today will determine whether the world moves towards a future of shared prosperity, justice, and opportunity—or backslides into deeper ...

Tonika Lewis Johnson is a photographer and activist who created participatory projects that reveal the consequences and legacy of segregation in her neighborhood of Englewood on Chicago’s South Side.