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What Happened to the Eviction Tsunami?
Since the pandemic began, housing experts (including one of the authors of this article) have been predicting that the pandemic’s economic fallout would produce an eviction “tsunami” that could put as many as 40 million people out…
Why Democrats Keep Bringing Up Voting Rights
In 2021, Democrats tried a number of times to pass federal voting rights legislation, and each time, it went something like this: Bills cleared the House only to meet their demise in the Senate when Republicans refused to cooperate…
What Might Democrats’ Voting Rights Bill Entail?
UPDATE, Jan. 13, 2022 (10:33 a.m.): On the evening of Jan. 12, Democrats combined the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act into a single bill, the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act. Democrats took…
Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Could Be In Trouble At The Supreme Court
This has not been a quiet term for the Supreme Court, to put it mildly. But shortly before Christmas, the justices added yet another set of high-profile cases to their docket: two cases that deal with the legality of President…
Why Republicans Take Jan. 6 Less Seriously Than Other Americans
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Historically, Americans haven’t disagreed on the seriousness of national tragedies — think Sept. 11, 2001. But that’s not the case with the storming of the U.S. Capitol on…
Why More Republicans Aren’t Outraged By Jan. 6
For more coverage of the Jan. 6 attack, read our collection of essays and reflections examining where we are as a country one year later, including what has — and hasn’t — changed since a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the…
Why Many Americans Might Be Increasingly Accepting Of Political Violence
For more coverage of the Jan. 6 attack, read our collection of essays and reflections examining where we are as a country one year later, including what has — and hasn’t — changed since a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the…
We’re Misunderstanding What Caused Jan. 6
For more coverage of the Jan. 6 attack, read our collection of essays and reflections examining where we are as a country one year later, including what has — and hasn’t — changed since a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the…
How Jan. 6 Enabled Greater Interference In Our Elections
For more coverage of the Jan. 6 attack, read our collection of essays and reflections examining where we are as a country one year later, including what has — and hasn’t — changed since a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the…
White Backlash Is A Type Of Racial Reckoning, Too
For more coverage of the Jan. 6 attack, read our collection of essays and reflections examining where we are as a country one year later, including what has — and hasn’t — changed since a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the…