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Any post-MAGA renewal of democracy starts with a federal right to vote. But it hardly ends there.

In a blistering dissent, Jackson warned that the Court’s emergency ruling lets the Trump administration continue pursuing changes to state-run mail voting systems even though “no judge or Justice” has concluded that Trump’s order is constitutional.

Reader Comments: Trade War - With Canada?; Dolly Parton-Life of Many Colors; Kate Bronfenbrenner; Germany’s Die Linke; Some Readers Respond on Ortega post; 9 to 5; Resource - Election Defense Scenarios; What is Democratic Socialism?; and more...

The 25th Knesset has now dissolved, bringing an end one of the most consequential and destructive political periods in Israel's history. As Israel heads toward elections, what has changed both in law and political culture? What can be reversed?

More than 70 years after the kidnapping, torture and lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, a major new photography exhibit and companion book ask how the world would be different “If Emmett Till Lived.”

Abdul El-Sayed says Tuesday’s Senate primary in Michigan is a referendum on the future of the Democratic Party.

Peru has been home to the world’s most ambitious experiments in participatory democracy. American progressive and democratic socialist mayors should look to them for both inspiration and warning.

Reader Comments: Elections 2026 and 2028 - Democratic Socialists Further Advance; AOC Should Run for President; Jewish Socialists Helped Build Multiracial Democracy; Strikes of Attorneys Representing Poor Clients; Dr. Fauci; lots more and Cartoons;

Supreme Court decisions and unrestrained partisan gerrymandering are focusing attention on a fundamental election reform. But one version is more feasible than the others.

Even in decline, the US will play a big role in global affairs. With control over the trajectory of US politics and the map of world power now up for grabs, the Left has an opportunity to influence both.