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
Essay
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CRT & the Backlash
Friends Like These
Affirmative action’s fate depends on a pair of ambivalent advocates
- Jonathan Feingold
CRT & the Backlash
Reclaiming Affirmative Action
A case for how race matters before, during, and after college admissions
- Jonathan Feingold
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
Drawing a Blank
How the forces of antidemocratic representation left Detroit without a Black congressional delegation
- David Daley
Democracy in the Balance
Tearing the Roof Off
Private equity’s housing predation strategy
- Jared Clemons
Democracy in the Balance
Beyond the Boyfriend Loophole
A flawed bid to crack down on firearm access for domestic abusers reinforces distressing structural patterns of victimization
- Denzell Brown
Democracy in the Balance
Building Schools Back Better
A Constructive Politics for Public Education
- David I. Backer
School Wars
I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On
Facing another school year in the crossfire of the anti-CRT culture wars
- Willie Randall
Imaginative Power
The Fire This Time
How James Baldwin speaks to lethal myths of white innocence—and why his work belongs in public school classrooms
- Sana Hashmi
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
The Denial of Debt
Behind the drive to tamp down inflation is a deeper narrative of top-down class warfare
- Jared Clemons
