Private prison corporations lobbied for ICE's expansion and are now profiting from it. Closing campaign finance loopholes is ...

No eligible voter should be shut out of our democracy because election materials aren't available in the language they know best. This brief with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund ...

A look at the policies of the Inclusive Democracy Agenda, why they are needed, and how we went about developing them. Demos, in partnership with grassroots leaders on the front lines of the struggle ...

How past racial injustices are carried forward as wealth handed down across generations and reinforced by “color-blind” practices and policies Issues of racial inequity are increasingly at the ...

The freedom to vote is America’s most important political right outside of the original Bill of Rights, and it is also the most hard-won right. In the early years of our republic, only white ...

Social scientists use 3 common methods to define class—by occupation, income, or education—and there is really no consensus about the “right” way to do it. Michael Zweig, a leading scholar in ...

In 2013, Walmart spent billions repurchasing shares of its own stock. It should have spent it raising wages. Walmart investors committed to long-term firm performance would benefit from reallocating ...

Campaign finance laws protect our democracy from corruption and preserve the integrity of our elections. These rules governing the use of money in politics were in a sorry state before Citizens United ...

The Supreme Court is deciding cases that involve critical decisions affecting our everyday lives while using a procedure that provides little to no transparency to the public. Ahead of the 2022 ...

In 2016, President Obama declared a state of emergency over the contamination of the water system in Flint, Michigan, a poor, majority-black city.1 The crisis was seen as a failure of the government ...

This paper is the first in a series of short pieces from Demos concerning the dynamics of social exclusion and the relationship between individual instances of hostility towards people of color in the ...

Emerging concerns about mass challenger data programs highlight that flawed data methodologies may put voters without stable housing at risk of having their registrations questioned or canceled.