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In today's On the News segment: Most of us know how bad income inequality has become in the United States, but pollution inequality is even worse, and more.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of “An Indigenous People's History of the United States,” argues that an understanding of the history of the settler state is essential.

Twenty people, including Cornel West, are arrested carrying out civil disobedience at the Ferguson police station after being denied a meeting with local officials.

The “war on drugs” has caused more problems than it has solved since 1971.

A new report finds up to 90 percent of women working restaurant jobs that depend on tips have experienced workplace sexual harassment.

Contamination from depleted uranium munitions is causing sharp rises in congenital birth defects, cancer cases and other illnesses throughout much of Iraq.

Some research suggests that the chemicals that farmers and their workers spread on fields may alter certain brain chemicals.

“In this beauty contest between Cinderella's ugly sisters, in this case Hank Greenberg versus the team that led the AIG bailout, Greenberg may well come out looking better.”

Death penalty states like Missouri have been treating their predominantly black death row prisoners like test subjects while protests over the worth of black life continue in Ferguson.

This summer, driven partially by North Dakota's boom, the United States surpassed Saudi Arabia in total oil and gas production.