Democracy in the Balance
This Year at The Forum
Highlights from our first year of publication
- Forum Staff
U.S. Supreme Court
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
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Almost Hell
In West Virginia v. EPA, a reactionary high court blocks climate progress and declares war on the regulatory state
- J. Ama Mantey
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Taking Stock of the Dobbs Disaster
How our racialized politics have worked to undermine reproductive freedom
- Rafia Zakaria
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This is Not a Drill
Why the race crisis and the democracy crisis are one and the same
- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
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Defeating the Next Coup
In an interview with The Forum, Rep. Jamie Raskin discusses the fallout from Jan. 6 and the battle for reproductive rights
- Chris Lehmann
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‘They Are a Rule-or-Ruin Faction’
Rep. Jamie Raskin on the Jan. 6 committee hearings, and the perils facing our democracy
- Chris Lehmann
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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
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
