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How the Senate has become a bastion of Republican minority rule.

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

The House speaker fight was eerily reminiscent of 1923 — but the differences between the two will drive what comes next.

A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.

Such a doctrine would be antithetical to the Framers’ intent, and to the text, fundamental design, and architecture of the Constitution.

Supporters of the “independent state legislature theory” are quoting fake history.

The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.

On school funding and America’s kleptocratic public school divide.

In 'What It Took to Win,' Michael Kazin traces the history over the past two centuries of what he calls ‘the oldest mass party in the world’.

Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?

How the Windy City became a Latinx metropolis in the second half of the twentieth century.

As the GOP undermines Black political rights in the present, some right-wing intellectuals are rationalizing Black disenfranchisement in the past.

After 110 years, a look at the benefits — and drawbacks — to expanding the chamber.

In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.

The rise of the first Black woman on the Louisiana Supreme Court was characterized by one battle after another with the Deep South’s white power structure.

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.

The authors of the Constitution feared mass participation would unsettle government, but it’s the privileged minority that has proved destabilizing.

The enduring lesson of American history is that the republic is always in danger when white supremacist sedition and violence escape justice.

Invoking the specter of voter fraud to undermine democratic participation is a tactic as old as the United States itself.

From covid-19 to the 2020 election, the specter of America’s racist history influences many aspects of our lives.