Imaginative Power
Making a Good Image
Alex Garland’s Civil War and the great un-divide
- A. S. Hamrah
Civil War
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
Voting Rights
The Forgotten First Voting Rights Act
How the defeat of the 1890 Lodge bill presaged today’s age of ballot-driven backlash
- Ed Burmila
Democracy in the Balance
Making the Constitution Safe for Democracy
The second section of the Fourteenth Amendment offers severe penalties for menacing the right to vote—if anyone can figure out how to enforce it.
- Anthony Conwright
Pasts Imperfect
Majority Rule on the Brink
Annette Gordon-Reed discusses the legacies of our racial past, and the prospects ahead for embattled republic
- Chris Lehmann
Democracy in the Balance
Texas’s Ongoing War on Emancipation
White retrenchment in the home of Juneteenth
- Anoa Changa
Pasts Imperfect
Juneteenth and the Fables of Emancipation
Excavating the brutal social truths beneath a holiday of uplift
- Anthony Conwright
School Wars
Lone-Star Inquisition
How the Texas book ban harks back to the heyday of the Confederacy
- Anthony Conwright
