Despite a mountain of evidence affirming the centrality of race in US politics, it is essentially ignored in almost all electoral analysis.
The right is winning, the center is spinning, the left's battle is just beginning
The Republican governors of Florida and Tennessee have both recently signed bills outlawing the system.
We propose universal voting. All of us, as a matter of civic duty, have an obligation to shape our shared project of democratic self-government.
Members of the special House committee investigating the Capitol riot are among those arguing for an overhaul of a more than century-old statute enacted to address disputed elections.
It is not too much to say that the Republican Party has cleared itself a path to nullifying the votes of millions of Americans.
We are one, maybe two, elections away from a constitutional crisis. The future of our democracy rests on whether those committed to free and fair elections will prepare to defend that democracy.
Fox News has taken a further step back from Donald Trump’s baseless allegations of election fraud with a bizarre apparent legal retraction aired during shows hosted by some of the president’s most fervent supporters.
Abolishing the controversial democratic institution seems out of the question. But there is still a way around it.
Georgia’s adoption of runoff voting was aimed at maintaining segregation by, as one advocate put it, preventing ‘the Negro bloc vote from controlling the elections.’
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