How two Michigan cities, Dearborn and Hamtramck, responded to gaps in federal language-access protections and expanded access ...

Now is the time to break the cycle rather than simply survive it. Our grassroots partners are living their values and ...

A look at the policies of the Inclusive Democracy Agenda, why they are needed, and how we went about developing them. Demos, in partnership with grassroots leaders on the front lines of the struggle ...

How past racial injustices are carried forward as wealth handed down across generations and reinforced by “color-blind” practices and policies Issues of racial inequity are increasingly at the ...

The Supreme Court is deciding cases that involve critical decisions affecting our everyday lives while using a procedure that provides little to no transparency to the public. Ahead of the 2022 ...

Emerging concerns about mass challenger data programs highlight that flawed data methodologies may put voters without stable housing at risk of having their registrations questioned or canceled.

Social scientists use 3 common methods to define class—by occupation, income, or education—and there is really no consensus about the “right” way to do it. Michael Zweig, a leading scholar in ...

The freedom to vote is America’s most important political right outside of the original Bill of Rights, and it is also the most hard-won right. In the early years of our republic, only white ...

Erosion of Chevron deference would be a massive win for corporations and the conservative legal movement, at the expense of the public interest. Federal agencies would have less power to enact ...

In 2016, President Obama declared a state of emergency over the contamination of the water system in Flint, Michigan, a poor, majority-black city.1 The crisis was seen as a failure of the government ...

MYTH: Expansion will undermine the Court’s legitimacy and politicize the institution. Public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court is already deeply undermined. More than 2 decades of divisive decisions ...