Voting Rights
Breaking the Vote
How the assault on ballot access aims to predetermine the outcome of this year’s elections—and all others ahead.
- David Daley
Texas
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
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
Texas’s Ongoing War on Emancipation
White retrenchment in the home of Juneteenth
- Anoa Changa
Pasts Imperfect
Juneteenth and the Hazards of Ceremonial Forgetting
On Juneteenth, political leadership must grapple with the intersecting crisis of racism and tyranny in the wake of January 6, instead of simply celebrating a holiday.
- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Pasts Imperfect
Juneteenth and the Fables of Emancipation
Excavating the brutal social truths beneath a holiday of uplift
- Anthony Conwright
Democracy in the Balance
Bodily Control and the Color Line
The Supreme Court’s draft abortion opinion is poised to revive some of the worst traditions of white patriarchy
- Rafia Zakaria
School Wars
Lone-Star Inquisition
How the Texas book ban harks back to the heyday of the Confederacy
- Anthony Conwright
Voting Rights
The United States of REDMAP
Without voting rights reform, the GOP is free to create a future where elections don’t matter
- David Daley
CRT & the Backlash
Behind the Critical Race Theory Crackdown
Racial blamelessness and the politics of forgetting
- Sam Adler-Bell
