When Alicia Garza wrote a love letter to Black people on Facebook she launched the now-famous hashtag #blacklivesmatter. But she wants us to understand, a hashtag is not a movement. Organizing for change comes from the grassroots, and is the key to a better future. 

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in her new book, How the South Won the Civil War, that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system, which had sustained the defeated South, continued, and inequality and subordination was woven into the nation's fabric and identity.

Democratic Senator Jon Tester keeps winning in red Montana. When he's not in Washington he works full time on his farm. If Democrats want to pass an ambitious infrastructure bill paired with environmental priorities, they'll need to sway skeptics it will renew rural America.

Three powerful women — a mayor, police chief and public school superintendent — exit the Seattle leadership scene. Here's what that means.