Both Democrats and Republicans have charged that our economic system is “rigged” to benefit the wealthy, but only the GOP has advanced the destructive and conspiracist claim that the election itself is “rigged.”
Civil Rights in America
What If Election Day Were a Holiday, and Everyone Was Registered?
After this dark campaign, there are several lessons that America could learn from Israel about how to run an election. Really.
Three Reasons Why Voting Won’t Be Rigged
And what we should really worry about next
The Trans Paradox
Why transgender became a thing, but transracial did not.
Democrats Get Out the Vote. Republicans Suppress It.
Diverse approaches to a changing America
The Election is Rigged After All — Against African Americans
Voting rights advocates have won a string of court battles, but state election officials have found ways to restrict early voting anyway—often at the behest of GOP leaders.
Election Protection: Keeping Calm and Carrying On
As Trump encourages intimidation at the polls, a nationwide coalition of voting rights advocates aims to fight back.
Trump’s Voter Fraud Fantasy
Donald Trump’s exhortations to supporters to monitor polling places in “certain areas” recycles voter fraud myths that increasingly are being rejected by scholars and federal courts.
From a Contentious Election to a Stronger Democracy
Strengthening democracy is the key to all other reforms.
Black Burdens, White Wages, and the Persistence of Economic Inequality
A new report finds that the racial wage gap has widened since 1979.

