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September 22, 2025

Malcolm Ferguson

Whistleblowers Sound Alarm on Trump’s Assault on Fair Housing Act

The Trump administration is eroding enforcement of the landmark civil rights law, claiming it’s DEI nonsense.

September 23, 2020

The Politics of Everything

The Strangely Persistent Myth of the Suburbs

Democrats and Republicans have suburbia all wrong. How might their outdated ideas hurt them?

April 10, 2018

More Than a Nuisance

How housing ordinances are making poverty a crime

January 17, 2018

Rachel M. Cohen

The Fight for the Suburbs

How a battle over the Fair Housing Act could transform U.S. politics

June 30, 2015

The Supreme Court Isn’t Afraid to Mess With Texas

June 29, 2015

The Housing Recovery Has Skipped Poor and Minority Neighborhoods

After the Supreme Court's fair-housing ruling, will the government finally do something about it?

June 25, 2015

Clarence Thomas Says Black NBA Players Give SCOTUS a Reason to Gut Anti-Discrimination Law

February 25, 2015

Cristian Farias

Why Is It So Hard to Prove a Civil Rights Crime?

The Zimmerman case reveals the limits of the law—and foreshadows the Ferguson outcome