The two candidates hope to be Georgia’s first Jewish senator and Black senator, respectively—a reckoning that has been decades in the making.

The next big American conversation about race should take place in a union hall.

How the NRA seeded the storylines animating the violent groups that will be patrolling this year’s election

Why Black officers have to be at the forefront of efforts to transform America’s racist police culture.

The latest season of Leon Neyfakh’s podcast is another forensic dissection of a well-known, but little-understood, part of American history.

The women who remain locked out of the right to vote are the fractured legacy of a fractured movement.

The movement has resisted an anthem. Instead, it has redefined protest music.

Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics

Furious at being denied their fast food and manicures, the “reopen America” rebels have invented a slew of new constitutional rights.

A new book about the legendary singer Odetta comes not a minute too soon.

The curious legacy of a radical slogan

Inside the court battle over trans employment discrimination

Pride is a national celebration of how far the fight for queer rights has come, but in most of the U.S., there is still a long way to go.

The Justice has always shown a disregard for precedent, but with a shift in Supreme Court personnel, undoing progress could be the law of the land.

Why does he think Republicans will work with him after they obstructed Obama for eight years? His praise of a segregationist offers a clue.

In a rebuttal to Mitch McConnell—and possibly Joe Biden—Ta-Nehisi Coates helped House Democrats start a conversation on slavery, racism, and reparations.

It's not just about bathrooms. It's about livelihoods—and lives.

Placing federal immigration agents in local courthouses is not only cruel and dangerous, it violates states' rights.