Democracy in the Balance
This Year at The Forum
Highlights from our first year of publication
- Forum Staff
voting rights
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
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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
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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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
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Texas’s Ongoing War on Emancipation
White retrenchment in the home of Juneteenth
- Anoa Changa
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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
