CRT & the Backlash
Behind the Critical Race Theory Crackdown
Racial blamelessness and the politics of forgetting
- Sam Adler-Bell
Democracy in the Balance
A Few Good Men
Jordan Neely’s killer and the racist violence at the heart of the American imperial project
- Lyle Jeremy Rubin
Democracy in the Balance
After the Verdict, the Movement for Justice
On the anniversary of the Say Her Name campaign, a mother reflects on the trial of Atatiana Jefferson’s killer and the work ahead
- Gina Best
CRT & the Backlash
The Lethal Logic of White Supremacist Violence
Retracing the descent of replacement theory into racial terror
- Anthony Conwright
School Wars
They Want Your Child!
How right-wing school panics seek to repeal modernity and progress
- Rick Perlstein
Imaginative Power
Erasing Toni Morrison’s Vision
How today’s racial panics distort the great novelist’s legacy
- Gene Seymour
Democracy in the Balance
How to Start a Fire
In the wake of the mass shooting at a Colorado gay bar, a reactionary media has blood on its hands
- Ben Miller
Democracy in the Balance
The Origin of Specious
The roots of “anti-woke” rhetoric, from Richard Hanania’s alt-right screeds to Charles Murray’s bigoted race science
- Hannah Gais
Conversations
Pasts Imperfect
Majority Rule on the Brink
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Democracy in the Balance
Defeating the Next Coup
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Imaginative Power
Beyond the Politics of Elite Empowerment
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Pasts Imperfect
Majority Rule on the Brink
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Democracy in the Balance
Defeating the Next Coup
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Imaginative Power
Beyond the Politics of Elite Empowerment
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Pasts Imperfect
Majority Rule on the Brink
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Democracy in the Balance
Defeating the Next Coup
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Imaginative Power
Beyond the Politics of Elite Empowerment
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In Focus
Democracy in the Balance
This is Not a Drill
Why the race crisis and the democracy crisis are one and the same
- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
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School Wars
To Save the World (And Build it Anew)
Student activists helped bring us Black and Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, and faculty DEI initiatives. Now, they need our support.
- Elise A. Mitchell
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CRT & the Backlash
The Anti-Antiracist Court
How the Supreme Court has weaponized the Fourteenth Amendment and Brown v. Board of Education against antiracism
- Jonathan Feingold
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Imaginative Power
Making a Good Image
Alex Garland’s Civil War and the great un-divide
- A. S. Hamrah
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Longer Views
Voting Rights
The Forgotten First Voting Rights Act
Democracy in the Balance
Making the Constitution Safe for Democracy
Voting Rights
Colfax, Cruikshank, and the Latter-Day War on Reconstruction
Columnists
Democracy in the Balance
Ranked Choice Voting
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Pasts Imperfect
Minority Rule(s)
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Democracy in the Balance
Bodily Control and the Color Line
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Democracy in the Balance
Making the Constitution Safe for Democracy
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Democracy in the Balance
Ranked Choice Voting
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Pasts Imperfect
Minority Rule(s)
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Democracy in the Balance
Bodily Control and the Color Line
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Democracy in the Balance
Making the Constitution Safe for Democracy
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Democracy in the Balance
Ranked Choice Voting
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Pasts Imperfect
Minority Rule(s)
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Democracy in the Balance
Bodily Control and the Color Line
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Democracy in the Balance
Making the Constitution Safe for Democracy
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