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
Longer Views
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
Voting Rights
Colfax, Cruikshank, and the Latter-Day War on Reconstruction
Unearthing the deep roots of racialized voter suppression—and explaining how they shape ballot access today
- David Daley
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
Avenue Q
How a deranged conspiracy movement moved into the mainstream of the American right
- Adele M. Stan
Voting Rights
Democratic Strategies that Don’t Court Disaster
How to create real change—and save our democracy—in the wake of the Dobbs debacle
- David Daley & David Faris
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
Imaginative Power
Hollywood and the Censors’ Ball
On writing history with lightning and the fear of a Black audience
- Niela Orr
Democracy in the Balance
The Worst of Times
How the paper of record enables the CRT moral panic
- Chris Lehmann
Pasts Imperfect
Memorializing a Medical Predator
J. Marion Sims’ all-too-slow fall from scientific renown speaks volumes about the institutions that shore up white male impunity
- J.C. Hallman
CRT & the Backlash
Behind the Critical Race Theory Crackdown
Racial blamelessness and the politics of forgetting
- Sam Adler-Bell
