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  • Democracy & Government
    Stacey Abrams Has a Plan to Dismantle the Filibuster and Protect Voting Rights
    March 12, 2021
    | Ari Berman

    Voting rights activist, Stacey Abrams, sees an ever more pressing need to reform the filibuster in the US Senate. And she has a plan for how to do it — get support from reluctant centrist Democrats.

  • For the Record
    How the Nazis Used Jim Crow Laws as the Model for Their Race Laws
    October 13, 2017
    | Bill Moyers
    Bill Moyers in conversation with author James Whitman about his new book "Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law."
  • Society
    'I Wanted to Tell the Story of How I Had Become a Racist'
    September 15, 2017
    | Robin Lindley
    In The Making of a Racist, professor Charles B. Dew describes his evolution from a “young Confederate” to an outspoken critic of racism.
  • History
    A Dying Mule Always Kicks the Hardest
    November 17, 2016
    | Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
    Why Donald Trump's election means "we must work together for a Third Reconstruction in America."
  • Society
    Class in America and Donald Trump
    August 1, 2016
    | Karin Kamp
    Historian Nancy Isenberg talks about why Trump's message resonates with poor whites and what Bernie Sanders got wrong about this long-vilified group.
  • Democracy & Government
    Make the Candidates Talk About Voting Rights
    February 25, 2016
    | Gary May
    Where do the Republican presidential contenders stand on the issue of voter suppression?
  • Democracy & Government
    How Populists Like Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Racism
    January 29, 2016
    | Ian Haney López and Heather McGhee
    To mobilize a multiracial coalition, progressives need to demonstrate how racism hurts us all.
  • Justice
    In 2014, a Record-Busting Number of People Were Freed After Being Locked Up for Years
    January 29, 2015
    | Sam Brodey
    Local prosecutors end up being responsible for most of the exonerations.
  • Need a Lawyer? Sell Everything
    December 16, 2014
    | Jonathan Rapping
    The test of whether a person can afford a lawyer is often so extreme that even the most indigent of defendants may be deemed unworthy of counsel.
  • One of the Most Important Civil and Human Rights Battles of Our Time
    November 10, 2014
    | Jonathan Rapping
    There is no greater threat to equal justice than when our public defenders are beaten into submission.


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