The Obsession With White Voters Could Cost Democrats the Virginia Governor’s Race The Obsession With White Voters Could Cost Democrats the Virginia Governor’s Race
If Ralph Northam’s campaign is any indication, Democrats have learned the wrong lesson from 2016.
Oct 23, 2017 / Steve Phillips
‘We Have Not a Government’: The US Before the Constitution ‘We Have Not a Government’: The US Before the Constitution
An interview with George William Van Cleve, author of a new book about a period of crisis that offers tools for thinking about our own.
Oct 23, 2017 / Richard Kreitner
It Feels Surreal Being a Puerto Rican in the United States These Days It Feels Surreal Being a Puerto Rican in the United States These Days
The disaster has revealed our ambiguous status as citizen-strangers.
Oct 17, 2017 / Javier Morillo
Why Democrats Need a 50-State Strategy Why Democrats Need a 50-State Strategy
There is a real desire for progressive solutions in every part of the country—including areas that many Democrats have, unfortunately, written off.
Oct 10, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
North Carolina’s Gerrymandering Puts Democracy on the Line North Carolina’s Gerrymandering Puts Democracy on the Line
How the GOP uses redistricting to maintain power in a purple state.
Sep 27, 2017 / Feature / Barry Yeoman
Red-State Governments Are Trying to Take Back Your Minimum-Wage Hike and LGBTQ Protections Red-State Governments Are Trying to Take Back Your Minimum-Wage Hike and LGBTQ Protections
But these cities won’t let them.
Sep 26, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias
The UNC Board Bans a Prominent Civil-Rights Center From Litigating The UNC Board Bans a Prominent Civil-Rights Center From Litigating
Under a new policy, the University of North Carolina’s Center for Civil Rights is forbidden from representing minority and low-income clients in court.
Sep 11, 2017 / Zoë Carpenter
Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Are Part of the US Too Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Are Part of the US Too
But they don’t get the same level of attention as Florida and Texas—let alone equal representation.
Sep 11, 2017 / John Nichols
Letters From the September 25-October 2, 2017, Issue Letters From the September 25-October 2, 2017, Issue
Labour pains… City vs. country…
Sep 7, 2017 / Our Readers and John Harris
Texas’s Virulently Anti-Immigrant SB 4 Was Just Blocked by a Federal Judge Texas’s Virulently Anti-Immigrant SB 4 Was Just Blocked by a Federal Judge
The nation’s harshest law targeting sanctuary cities won’t go into effect—for now.
Aug 31, 2017 / Julianne Hing