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September 23, 2022
David Leonhardt’s Centrist Nostalgia Won’t Save Democracy
Jim Crow wasn’t an exception—but a model for the future.
Jeet Heer
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May 3, 2022
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Abolition Democracy
The enduring legacy and capacious vision of Black Reconstruction.
Gerald Horne
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June 8, 2021
Joe Manchin Cares More About ‘Bipartisanship’ Than Fighting Jim Crow
The senator says he won’t back a crucial voting rights bill because it’s too “partisan.” What he means is that white conservatives don’t like it.
Elie Mystal
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February 17, 2021
We Need a Racial Reckoning to Save Democracy
We must undergo a truth and reconciliation process in order to establish a new civic consensus.
Megan Ming Francis and Deepak Bhargava
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December 2, 2020
This Supreme Court Case Could Wreck the New Deal Legal Order
In Cedar Point Nursery, conservatives are invoking a Jim Crow version of property rights.
Nathan Newman
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July 19, 2020
How We Remember a Prophet
Republicans who refuse to restore the Voting Rights Act while decorating the grave of Representative John Lewis with flowery words testify against themselves.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
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March 23, 2020
Since Emancipation, the United States Has Refused to Make Reparations for Slavery
But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.
Kali Holloway
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May 14, 2019
A New Poll Tax Will Suppress Florida’s Voting Reform
Republicans in Tallahassee are determined to thwart the will of the people.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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February 20, 2019
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June 7, 2018
James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, and the Politics of Southern Multiculturalism
The search for cultural diversity and social equality.
Robert Greene II