A third party could be successful. But probably not this one.
To win voters, a party has to stand for something. But what would the Forward Party do in office?
The House might pass a long-ignored bill to study reparations for slavery. Why now?
My research looks at how Black legislators changed the Democratic Party — and how becoming party insiders changed them.
Congress finally passed a federal anti-lynching bill — after 120 years of failure
For decades, a small, intensely committed Senate minority was able to use Senate rules to block change and maintain the Jim Crow system in the South
Sen. Manchin’s Freedom to Vote Act would help stop gerrymandering, our research finds
We examined new district maps, and found that those drawn by independent commissions would be most likely to pass the Manchin test
The economy is still in pandemic shock. But some state governments are flush with cash.
Trying to avoid economic disaster, the federal government ended up distributing more money than some states needed
Three reasons Congress finally passed an infrastructure bill
And what happened to Build Back Better, the social and climate infrastructure bill?
How did 9/11 change South Asian Americans’ identities and politics?
Being targets of racial and religious hatred unified them behind the Democrats
Few people are expected to vote in this year’s ‘off-cycle’ elections. That can be fixed.
Holding state and local elections in even years — alongside national elections — means that voters more accurately represent the cities they live in
Discrimination against Indian Americans happens more than you might think
A new survey reveals 1 in 2 Indian Americans experienced recent discrimination, often on the basis of skin color