The Politics We Don’t See Matter as Much as Those We Do
Some of the most important developments in politics do not happen every election cycle, but every ten years, when politicians scrap the old battleground map...
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Why Kamala Harris Matters to Me
When I arrived in the United States in 1984, an Indian graduate student wanting to study African-American history, I was an anomaly. Most of my...
‘This Is Not a Boring History of Nagging Spinsters’
As the story is often told, the path to women’s suffrage began in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the...
How Has the Electoral College Survived for This Long?
As our revived national conversation on race has made clear, the legacies of slavery and white supremacy run wide and deep in American society and...
John Lewis Believed America Would Survive Trump
In June 2017, I ran into John Lewis outside of Atlanta, where he was campaigning for his former intern Jon Ossoff in the special election...
The Blessing and Burden of Being John Lewis
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. The Supreme Court had just...
A More Liberal Supreme Court? Not When It Comes to Voting Rights
For the fourth time since April, the Supreme Court this week made it harder for Americans to vote. The ruling, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in...
The Radical Resistance of John Lewis
Representative John Lewis, who died Friday at age 80, will be remembered as a principal hero of the blood-drenched era not so long ago when...
Still Marching on Washington, 50 Years Later
WASHINGTON — John Lewis was the 23-year-old son of Alabama sharecroppers and already a veteran of the civil rights movement when he came to the...
This Is the Real John Roberts
What is up with Chief Justice John Roberts? Has he been cowed by political pressure to move left? Is there a method to his apparent...