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American democracy is in real trouble, but history, law, social science, and global politics all suggest that rights can be ...

This year, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. The former colonies came together as a nation inspired by the principles expressed in the Declaration of ...

Two dynamics are fundamentally reshaping the structure and functioning of the American government. The first, which is quite well known, is Congress’s decline. The second, perhaps somewhat less ...

Back in 2013, the Supreme Court tossed out a key provision of the Voting Rights Act regarding federal oversight of elections.

In his reflections on Dēmos’ and NPQ’s Third Reconstruction series, Aron Goldman uplifts the call to look beyond the crises of today and envision a new path toward our collective liberation.

T here is no shortage of books on the period surrounding America’s civil war. Canonical classics include “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, ...

The 14th Amendment is often taught as a milestone of post–Civil War Reconstruction — but rarely do we hear about the ...

The Wisconsin Senate passed three constitutional amendment proposals Wednesday, including one to eliminate DEI, one to limit ...

As Israeli strikes killed two dozen Palestinians on Wednesday, many in Gaza wondered what had become of the ceasefire reached ...

The county is seeking an amendment to create a voluntary buyout program with some of its $1.6 billion fire recovery grant ...

The Supreme Court’s Republican majority spent much of Tuesday morning trying to figure out how two mutually exclusive ...