The seeds of an authoritarian state will still be there unless the United States reckons with its own fascist past and how that relates to Stephen Miller’s vision for the future.
Race & Ethnicity
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Stephen Miller’s Impossible America
The ethnonationalist strategy for white replenishment won’t work.
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Is Chaos the Point in South Carolina?
Seems to be, but overzealous Republican state legislators steamrolling new congressional maps onto baffled voters may end up in a world of hurt.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Mifepristone Wars—and What They Mean for Black Women
Still concentrated in Southern states that ban abortion, Black women disproportionately rely on telehealth, which the Supreme Court has allowed—provisionally—to continue.
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Trump’s Appalling Racial Legacy
The Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act has cemented President Trump’s legacy in erasing civil rights and equal opportunity.
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The Court’s Ruling Unleashed a Torrent of Race-Based Pro-White Gerrymandering
In the heart of the Old South, compact majority-Black districts are being supplanted by elongated majority-white ones.
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The Court Didn’t Just Disenfranchise Blacks. It Also Disenfranchised Cities.
The Republican redistrictings strip cities of congressional representation.
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Turning Civil Rights Inside Out
The Supreme Court has now invited racial gerrymandering, as merely political and thus beyond judicial challenge.
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The Real Reason to Worry About the Midterm Elections
Some worry about a November Trump coup. That’s far-fetched, but the ordinary forms of voter suppression are the greater concern.
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Could the New Florida Congressional Map Be a Dummymander?
Special elections have gone sharply against Donald Trump’s successes in the 2024 election. This November, the GOP’s bid to pick up four Democratic seats could similarly fall flat.