Democracy in the Balance
Ranked Choice Voting
The GOP underestimated Dobbs’s impact on the midterms, but the defense of abortion rights remains split along racial lines
- Rafia Zakaria
Rafia Zakaria
Rafia Zakaria is the author most recently of Against White Feminism (W.W. Norton, 2021). She is also a columnist for The Baffler and Dawn (Pakistan).
Democracy in the Balance
Climate of Impunity
How the neoliberal order helped spur the disastrous floods in Pakistan
- Rafia Zakaria
Democracy in the Balance
When Choice Disappears
A dispatch from the homeland of the nation’s most severe post-Roe abortion ban
- Rafia Zakaria
CRT & the Backlash
The Brown Man’s Gambit
How the battle for Tory leadership has reinforced Britain’s retrograde politics of empire
- Rafia Zakaria
Democracy in the Balance
Taking Stock of the Dobbs Disaster
How our racialized politics have worked to undermine reproductive freedom
- Rafia Zakaria
Pasts Imperfect
A Pox by Any Other Name
The naming of a virus referenced a world of racist social thinking masquerading as science
- Rafia Zakaria
Democracy in the Balance
Mob Misrule
The January 6 hearings depict a damning presidential break with reality
- Rafia Zakaria
Democracy in the Balance
Bodily Control and the Color Line
The Supreme Court’s draft abortion opinion is poised to revive some of the worst traditions of white patriarchy
- Rafia Zakaria
Democracy in the Balance
The White Face of Refugee Aid
How the Ukraine crisis has exposed longstanding biases in Western asylum policies
- Rafia Zakaria
Democracy in the Balance
White Russian Empire
The racist myths behind Vladimir Putin’s power grabs
- Rafia Zakaria
