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Despite a mountain of evidence affirming the centrality of race in US politics, it is essentially ignored in almost all electoral analysis.

The fascists are moving from covert to overt

Brazilians prepare for a momentous vote

The bill fixes many problems, but doesn’t really safeguard Americans’ right to vote.

A Georgia prosecutor may bring Donald Trump to account. At the same time, Georgia Republicans are trying to rig this year’s elections.

My survey of young people before the last midterm election found that feeling more disappointed or cynical about politics actually led to a higher, not lower, likelihood to vote.

The Fed knows inflation is a problem born of insufficient supply that only governments can tackle. But that doesn’t look like stopping it from pushing the US economy, and everyone else’s, into recession.

A radical and baseless legal theory could upend the country’s most essential democratic process.

An extreme embrace of the theory by the Supreme Court would hand legislatures power over every aspect of how federal elections are run, to the exclusion of not only state courts but also possibly other state actors like governors and election administrators.

The US, which has been teetering on the edge of a cliff for some time, is now starting to tip into an abyss of "minority rule medievalism.”