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
Donald Trump
Pasts Imperfect
The Black Antifascist Roots of Black August
How the legacy of George Jackson and other radical political prisoners speak to a new age of authoritarian retrenchment
- Jeanelle K. Hope
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
Democracy in the Balance
The CPAC Passion Play
Why the politics of Trumpian grievance will long outlast Trump
- Matthew Sheffield
CRT & the Backlash
Higher Ed and the Policing of Memory
Why universities must help lead the battle to defend and expand critical race theory
- Danielle Conway
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
January 6 and the Hawley Hustle
How the failure to confront our antidemocratic past nearly produced a fascist coup
- Anthony Conwright
CRT & the Backlash
The Empty Quest for “Racelessness”
The American right’s latest bid to argue race out of existence
- Anthony Conwright
Democracy in the Balance
Avenue Q
How a deranged conspiracy movement moved into the mainstream of the American right
- Adele M. Stan
Democracy in the Balance
The Color of Coup-Plotting
The sensational testimony of a former Trump White House aide points to the deeper roots of the January 6 putsch
- Chris Lehmann
Democracy in the Balance
The Nightmare We Need to Let Sink In
Shaye Moss’s testimony should force us to reconsider what’s politically possible
- Gene Seymour
Democracy in the Balance
Mob Misrule
The January 6 hearings depict a damning presidential break with reality
- Rafia Zakaria
