
Zack Beauchamp
Senior Correspondent
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Winner: Obamacare. Loser: Wall Street.


Biden’s not taking away your meat, as Republicans claimed this weekend. But partisan conflict over eating animals is just getting started.


A body of political science research finds that our criminal justice system suppresses the votes of Black people — in ways beyond the obvious.

Texas is already one of the most restrictive states in the country. Republicans want new rules that would make things worse.


The debate over whether Georgia’s law really suppresses voting reveals just how imperiled American democracy is.


New research quantifies the health of democracy at the state level — and Republican-governed states tend to perform much worse.

A recent essay in a prominent right-wing outlet gives an unusually clear window into the modern right’s anti-democratic worldview.


The very worst provisions enable partisan Republicans to seize control of election boards in Democratic counties.

Winner: A return to normalcy. Loser: Americans still worried about the Covid-19 pandemic.


“It’s been a tool used overwhelmingly by racists,” says Kevin Kruse, a historian of race and American politics at Princeton University.