Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

In the five years since the landmark decision, the Supreme Court has set the stage for a new era of white hegemony.

Largely forgotten today, Albion W. Tourgée’s legislation could have prevented Moore v. Harper.

A look at voter rights through political cartoons.

How voter suppression became a political weapon in American politics.

Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.

Democracy is in trouble, but a lawless coup isn’t the real threat.

Both parties play the redistricting game, redrawing electoral boundaries to lock down power.

GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.

For centuries, voter fraud has been used as an excuse to restrict the vote.

A botched voter purge prevented thousands from voting—and empowered a new generation of voting-rights critics.

In the era of the voting wars, the right to vote is itself a subject of continued partisan, regional, and racial conflict.

The same ideas that have harmed D.C. for more than a century are again rearing their ugly head.

A new film shows how Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor, stood up to a majority-white city council to push through infrastructure improvements for all.

The Carter-Baker report was intended to strengthen Americans’ trust in the electoral process. It’s become a weapon for right-wing attacks on voting rights.

South Dakota has been called "the Mississippi of the North" for its long history of making voting hard for Native Americans.

Supreme Court decisions have practical consequences, which justices too often blithely ignore.

Elections in the late 1860s gave birth to real, if short-lived, interracial democracy—the likes of which America had never seen.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

In the five years since the landmark decision, the Supreme Court has set the stage for a new era of white hegemony.

Largely forgotten today, Albion W. Tourgée’s legislation could have prevented Moore v. Harper.

A look at voter rights through political cartoons.

How voter suppression became a political weapon in American politics.

Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.

Democracy is in trouble, but a lawless coup isn’t the real threat.

Both parties play the redistricting game, redrawing electoral boundaries to lock down power.

GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.

For centuries, voter fraud has been used as an excuse to restrict the vote.

A botched voter purge prevented thousands from voting—and empowered a new generation of voting-rights critics.

In the era of the voting wars, the right to vote is itself a subject of continued partisan, regional, and racial conflict.

The same ideas that have harmed D.C. for more than a century are again rearing their ugly head.

A new film shows how Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor, stood up to a majority-white city council to push through infrastructure improvements for all.

The Carter-Baker report was intended to strengthen Americans’ trust in the electoral process. It’s become a weapon for right-wing attacks on voting rights.

South Dakota has been called "the Mississippi of the North" for its long history of making voting hard for Native Americans.

Supreme Court decisions have practical consequences, which justices too often blithely ignore.

Elections in the late 1860s gave birth to real, if short-lived, interracial democracy—the likes of which America had never seen.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

In the five years since the landmark decision, the Supreme Court has set the stage for a new era of white hegemony.

Largely forgotten today, Albion W. Tourgée’s legislation could have prevented Moore v. Harper.

A look at voter rights through political cartoons.

How voter suppression became a political weapon in American politics.

Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.

Democracy is in trouble, but a lawless coup isn’t the real threat.

Both parties play the redistricting game, redrawing electoral boundaries to lock down power.

GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.

For centuries, voter fraud has been used as an excuse to restrict the vote.

A botched voter purge prevented thousands from voting—and empowered a new generation of voting-rights critics.

In the era of the voting wars, the right to vote is itself a subject of continued partisan, regional, and racial conflict.

The same ideas that have harmed D.C. for more than a century are again rearing their ugly head.

A new film shows how Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor, stood up to a majority-white city council to push through infrastructure improvements for all.

The Carter-Baker report was intended to strengthen Americans’ trust in the electoral process. It’s become a weapon for right-wing attacks on voting rights.

South Dakota has been called "the Mississippi of the North" for its long history of making voting hard for Native Americans.

Supreme Court decisions have practical consequences, which justices too often blithely ignore.

Elections in the late 1860s gave birth to real, if short-lived, interracial democracy—the likes of which America had never seen.