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
Reconstruction
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
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
Pasts Imperfect
Bridging the Juneteenth Gender Gap
How the urgent demands of Black feminism can help complete the unfinished work of emancipation
- Nicole Young
Pasts Imperfect
Juneteenth and the Fables of Emancipation
Excavating the brutal social truths beneath a holiday of uplift
- Anthony Conwright
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
