Vann R. Newkirk II
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press How the Minority Wins
An election marked by gerrymandering, allegations of voter suppression, and legislative power grabs highlights the electoral reality of the GOP.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters How Climate Change Is Challenging American Health Care
Experts say mounting environmental pressures will make people sicker, and that the health-care system will play a major role in averting disaster.
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters An Incomplete Reconstruction
Mike Espy’s defeat in Mississippi marks the end of a disappointing season for black candidates for statewide offices across the country. But for some it’s a turning point.
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Rogelio V. Solis / AP Mississippi Isn't Like Other States
It's the blackest place in the country. But black candidates there, like Mike Espy, face systemic obstacles.
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Lawrence Bryant / Reuters The Abrams Machine Is Not Done Yet
Democrat Stacey Abrams acknowledged that Republican Brian Kemp would become Georgia’s governor, but she promised to continue her fight against voter suppression.
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Mike Roemer / AP Did Minority Voters Dethrone Scott Walker?
Early data suggest that enthusiasm and increased turnout from communities of color were at least part of the reason the GOP lost Wisconsin’s governor’s mansion.
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Joe Skipper / Adria Malcolm / Reuters / ... The Democrats’ Deep-South Strategy Was a Winner After All
Losses in marquee races might lead the party to believe it can’t win elections with candidates like Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams, and Beto O’Rourke. But there’s more to the story.
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Lawrence Bryant / Reuters Stacey Abrams Is Still Waiting for a Miracle
The battle over Georgia’s gubernatorial race might not be over anytime soon.
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Jessica McGowan / Getty The Georgia Governor’s Race Has Brought Voter Suppression Into Full View
America is undergoing the kind of slow erosion of democracy that the Voting Rights Act was intended to fight.
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Tribune News Service / Getty Andrew Gillum Is Florida's Homecoming King
Andrew Gillum’s chances in the Florida governor’s race rest on expanding the electorate. If he wins, that expansion could change the country.
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Jessica McGowan / Getty Images Stacey Abrams's Prescription for a Maternal-Health Crisis
Georgia is one of the riskiest places in the country for black women to have a child. That fact could make the difference in the governor's race.
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Eric Gray / AP Fighting for the Right to Vote in a Tiny Texas County
The battle between Prairie View A&M and local election officials over early voting mirrors the struggle for voting rights over the past half century.
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Alexander Drago / Reuters An American President Bends to the Demands of Terror
After the attack in Pittsburgh, Trump again expressed his inclination to meet violence with the machinery of a police state.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Voter Suppression Is the New Old Normal
Massive purges of minority voters from state rolls will stain the 2018 elections. They won’t be the last.
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David Goldman / AP Climate Change Is Already Damaging American Democracy
Major disasters and challenging long-term weather conditions are weakening local governments, increasing racial and class inequality, and reducing trust in government.
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Charles Krupa / AP Trump, Warren, and America's Racial Essentialism
The senator’s release of DNA-test results inadvertently validates the president’s taunts about her claimed Native American ancestry.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Kanye West’s Quixotic Quest
The man who once declared that a president and a party had no use for black people is now a pawn in a game dedicated to marginalizing those same people.
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Letitia Stein / Reuters In the Georgia Governor’s Race, the Game Is Black Votes
The Republican candidate and Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp denies charges that he is attempting to suppress African American turnout for political advantage—but advocates say barriers to the ballot help his cause all the same.
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Whitney Curtis / Reuters The Trump Era Is Destroying Black Civics, but Delivering Black Votes
A new survey from The Atlantic and the Public Religion Research Institute finds that the past two years have eroded African American participation in politics and activism, even in a watershed election year for minorities.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Fate of Obamacare’s Most Popular Provision
In the 2018 elections, Republican lawmakers are torn between their ongoing pledges to repeal or oppose the health-care reform, and overwhelming support for its protections for people with preexisting conditions.
