Libby Nelson

A Supreme Court decision saying states can reject license plates they found offensive arrived at just the right time.

Even if South Carolina takes down its flag, two other states are still paying homage to the Confederacy.

For many, she says, the flag “is a deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past.”

A powerful tribute to the lives lost.

The flag only gets to be a cultural symbol because Americans don’t remember what the Civil War was really about.

“At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”

He most recently helped pass a bill requiring police to wear body cameras.

There’s a deep ideological divide between Republicans and Democrats over what role the federal government ought to play in early childhood education.