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Are Americans Being Conditioned to Accept Delayed Elections?

Are Americans Being Conditioned to Accept Delayed Elections?

For Aron Solomon, Warning Signs Are Flashing Everywhere

By Aron Solomon | September 3, 2025

The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism

The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism

Julie Phillips Considers a Beloved Author’s Lifetime of Helping With the Housework of Democracy

By Julie Phillips | January 3, 2025

AM Homes on the Complexity of Contemporary Political Life

AM Homes on the Complexity of Contemporary Political Life

Yvonne Conza Talks to the Author of “The Unfolding”

By Yvonne Conza | November 4, 2024

Jess Walter on the Election

Jess Walter on the Election

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 31, 2024

A Feminist Oral History of the 1972 Democratic National Convention

A Feminist Oral History of the 1972 Democratic National Convention

Clara Bingham Chronicles the Failed Fight to Include Abortion Rights in the Party’s Platform

By Clara Bingham | July 30, 2024

Reading Through the Midterms: Finding Bipartisanship with Books on the Front Lines of Democracy

Reading Through the Midterms: Finding Bipartisanship with Books on the Front Lines of Democracy

Kristopher Jansma on Working the Polls and Making Friends

By Kristopher Jansma | November 8, 2022

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The first lines of classic novels as Democratic fundraising email subject lines.

By Jessie Gaynor | November 7, 2022

How Pollsters Got the 2016 Election So Wrong, And What They Learned From Their Mistakes

By G. Elliott Morris | July 27, 2022

Why More Single Women Should Run for Office

By Jacinda Townsend | July 11, 2022

Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe might have died because of voter fraud?

Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe might have died because of voter fraud?

By Katie Yee | November 2, 2021

Imagining the Possible, Committing to Action: On Creating a Racially Just America

Imagining the Possible, Committing to Action: On Creating a Racially Just America

Keith Boykin Considers the Lessons of History and the Challenges Ahead

By Keith Boykin | September 22, 2021

The Lasting Legacies of Voter Suppression and<br> the Electoral Fix

The Lasting Legacies of Voter Suppression and
the Electoral Fix

Emmanuel Acho Wonders "Who’s Governing the Government?"

By Emmanuel Acho | November 19, 2020

How American Politicians Learned to Lie to Voters

How American Politicians Learned to Lie to Voters

Gilda Daniels on the Roots of Voter Deception

By Gilda Daniels | November 2, 2020

Racists politicized the US postal system when they burned abolitionist literature in 1835.

Racists politicized the US postal system when they burned abolitionist literature in 1835.

By Aaron Robertson | September 4, 2020

A Brief History of the Presidential Election-to-Be

A Brief History of the Presidential Election-to-Be

Marvin Kitman Imagines Four—or Eight, or Ten—More Years of Trump

By Marvin Kitman | August 31, 2020

Let's Move Past the Myth of the Clutch Swing Voter

Let's Move Past the Myth of the Clutch Swing Voter

Generational Transformations Will Impact Future Elections
More Than One-Offs

By David Faris | July 2, 2020

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