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The Enemy Within

by Andrew Cockburn,

Why the Democrats don’t need Joe Manchin

Election Bias

by Andrew Cockburn,

The new playbook for voter suppression

The Crisis of Our Constitution

by Kevin Baker,

Lost in this past electoral season, one of the most vicious and frightening in American history, is how shaky the very foundation of our democracy is. Throughout Trump’s deformation of…

Tyranny of the Minority

by Rebecca Solnit,

Think of our democracy as a house we built in 1776, big enough only for Christian, property-owning white men. Over the next two centuries, various groups struggled to make it…

Old Poison, New Battles

by Randall Kennedy,

The ongoing struggle for voting rights

In Search of the Right to Vote

by Victoria Bassetti,

From Electoral Dysfunction, released in September by the New Press, in conjunction with a PBS documentary of the same name. The right of voting for representatives is the primary…

American Electra

by Susan Faludi,

Feminism's ritual matricide

Speak, Money

by Roger D. Hodge,

From The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism (HarperCollins). Hodge is the former editor of Harper’s Magazine. As we prepare yet another round of offerings…

The African-American arts

by Seth Ackerman,

Attempts this year to suppress the black vote would not be the first

Ex-con game

by Gregory Palast,

How Florida's "felon" voter-purge was itself felonious

I am girl

by Arlys Angelique Endres,