Now is the time to break the cycle rather than simply survive it. Our grassroots partners are living their values and ...

How past racial injustices are carried forward as wealth handed down across generations and reinforced by “color-blind” practices and policies Issues of racial inequity are increasingly at the ...

The freedom to vote is America’s most important political right outside of the original Bill of Rights, and it is also the most hard-won right. In the early years of our republic, only white ...

Social scientists use 3 common methods to define class—by occupation, income, or education—and there is really no consensus about the “right” way to do it. Michael Zweig, a leading scholar in ...

The Supreme Court is deciding cases that involve critical decisions affecting our everyday lives while using a procedure that provides little to no transparency to the public. Ahead of the 2022 ...

Campaign finance laws protect our democracy from corruption and preserve the integrity of our elections. These rules governing the use of money in politics were in a sorry state before Citizens United ...

Erosion of Chevron deference would be a massive win for corporations and the conservative legal movement, at the expense of the public interest. Federal agencies would have less power to enact ...

Emerging concerns about mass challenger data programs highlight that flawed data methodologies may put voters without stable housing at risk of having their registrations questioned or canceled.

The Great Recession of 2008— caused by decades of corporate consolidation, deregulation, and predatory mortgage lending— nearly brought down the global economy. In response, the United States ...

In 2016, President Obama declared a state of emergency over the contamination of the water system in Flint, Michigan, a poor, majority-black city.1 The crisis was seen as a failure of the government ...

This paper is the first in a series of short pieces from Demos concerning the dynamics of social exclusion and the relationship between individual instances of hostility towards people of color in the ...

How the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is used in measuring our economic growth and whether alternative measures are also needed to provide a more comprehensive outlook of economic progress. This ...