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June 4, 2021
Timothy Noah
Republicans Are Accidentally Suppressing Their Own Voters
Donald Trump’s weird obsession with mail-in voting is doing collateral damage to GOP lawmakers’ illiberal designs.
April 1, 2021
Kiran Misra
Mass Incarceration Draws Its Own Maps and Creates a Country in Its Image
Prison gerrymandering, in which incarcerated people are designated as residents of the areas where a prison or jail is located, is a system of strategic disenfranchisement.
February 26, 2021
Matt Ford
Welcome to the Census Crisis
The pandemic’s ravages caused havoc with our decennial head count. Our elections will be the first to pay the price.
November 27, 2020
Amanda Frost
The Supreme Court Has to Choose Between Trump and the Nation’s Founders
Are the court’s conservatives the devout originalists they claim to be or partisan hacks? A key immigration case will provide the proof.
September 25, 2020
Nick Martin
Can the Census Be Saved in Indian Country?
Historic undercounts have been catastrophic for tribal nations. The days ahead will be crucial.
June 3, 2019
Alex Shephard
Republicans Plan to Rig Elections for a Decade
New evidence confirms the Trump administration wants a citizenship question on the census for one reason: To suppress Latinx votes.
April 24, 2019
Matt Ford
The Court of Supremely Bad Faith
This term, the conservative justices are dreaming up alternate realities to justify their preordained conclusions.
June 20, 2014
Gary Segura
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Ruy Teixeira
The Myth of the "White" Latino
Sloppy analysis of Census data is giving the Republican Party false hope
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