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March 2, 2021
Even Blue States Suppress Student Voters
The ongoing struggle to diminish the student vote in New York’s 19th Congressional District, a purple patch of the Hudson Valley, has echoes nationwide.
Najwa Jamal
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April 14, 2020
Wisconsin Voters Defy Suppression to Oust a Trump-Backed Jurist
Republican legislators, conservative courts, and President Trump tried to upend democracy, but the voters weren’t having it.
John Nichols
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April 6, 2020
Wisconsin’s In-Person Voting Threatens Health and Democracy
Officials can protect voters by adopting a plan for extended absentee balloting.
John Nichols
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January 24, 2020
How Much Did Chesa Boudin’s Election Matter? He Just Eliminated Cash Bail.
The move proves that revolutionary change is possible.
John Nichols
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June 25, 2019
Tiffany Cabán Claims a Nationally Significant Victory for Queens DA
The criminal-justice reformer who has promised “people-powered justice” finished primary night with a lead of more than 1,000 votes.
John Nichols
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March 4, 2019
Bernie Has Feelings, Too!
Democrats have borrowed liberally from Sanders’s policy book. The one thing they can’t claim? His life story.
Matthew Zeitlin
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March 1, 2019
Mariah Parker Invites You to Be Your Complete, Weird, Messy Self
The 27-year-old Athens, Georgia, county commissioner leans into her humanity as she fights for social justice.
Aaron Ross Coleman
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August 2, 2018
Will Justice Ever Come to Ferguson, Missouri?
A Q&A with Wesley Bell, who is pitching himself as the criminal-justice reformer St. Louis County needs.
Jessica Pishko
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June 14, 2018
‘If You Want to Win, Get a Black Woman Candidate’: A Q&A With Melanie L. Campbell
The Democrats need to get serious about supporting black women.
Safiya Charles
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June 5, 2018
Can the California Elections Usher in a Slate of Progressive District Attorneys?
For the first time in years, conservative incumbents are facing reform-minded challengers. Can the reformers prevail?
Jessica Pishko