The latest challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 concerns who is allowed to sue to enforce it.
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Election Deniers in the C-Suites
Workers can win union elections, but companies pull out all the stops to prevent them from obtaining a first contract.
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Mississippi’s Direct-Democracy Con in Progress
The ballot measure process died three years ago, but some Republicans working on a new, more restrictive framework hope that voters won’t notice.
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Breaking the Ballot
Republican state lawmakers are enthusiastic practitioners of direct-democracy backsliding. Can voters hold them off?
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Jeff Merkley vs. the Senate
The Oregon senator’s new book harnesses 15 years of fighting to end the filibuster.
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America Is Not a Democracy
The movement to save democracy from threats is too quick to overlook the problems that have been present since the founding.
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American Fascism
Author and scholar John Ganz on how Europe’s interwar period informs the present
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Metaphors Journalists Live By (Part II)
The conclusion of our story of the bad things that can happen when journalists refuse to criticize themselves
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Metaphors Journalists Live By (Part I)
One of the reasons political journalism is so ill-equipped for this moment in America is because of its stubborn adherence to outdated frames.