This brief examines what the Supreme Court's Callais decision means for communities of color, what has already changed in its ...

In a major victory for democracy and constitutional protections, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration's ...

In a major victory for democracy and constitutional protections, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration's attempt to strip birthright citizenship rights. Dēmos President Taifa Smith ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Here is why Bill Clinton’s simply wrong. The 2008 financial crisis was no accident. It was the result of a decades-long deregulation effort, lobbied for by the financial industry and executed by our ...

Big companies are using data to preserve the power imbalance that keeps them rich. This economic model is rooted in chattel slavery and relies on the extraction and commodification of data. At its ...

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 ...