Democracy in the Balance
Ranked Choice Voting
The GOP underestimated Dobbs’s impact on the midterms, but the defense of abortion rights remains split along racial lines
- Rafia Zakaria
Down by law
Police brutality, racialized prosecutions, copaganda–and other moral failings of the carceral state.
Democracy in the Balance
Beyond the Boyfriend Loophole
A flawed bid to crack down on firearm access for domestic abusers reinforces distressing structural patterns of victimization
- Denzell Brown
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
Democracy in the Balance
When Choice Disappears
A dispatch from the homeland of the nation’s most severe post-Roe abortion ban
- Rafia Zakaria
Democracy in the Balance
Almost Hell
In West Virginia v. EPA, a reactionary high court blocks climate progress and declares war on the regulatory state
- J. Ama Mantey
Democracy in the Balance
Taking Stock of the Dobbs Disaster
How our racialized politics have worked to undermine reproductive freedom
- Rafia Zakaria
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
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
