We examine the persistent racial divide in women's unemployment, what's driving it, and how policymakers can address the ...

Dēmos President Taifa Smith Butler responds to the 2026 midterms: The people have spoken, and it’s time to govern.

We examine the persistent racial divide in women's unemployment, what's driving it, and how policymakers can address the structural conditions that limit Black women’s ability to thrive. The census is ...

This brief examines what the Supreme Court's Callais decision means for communities of color, what has already changed in its wake, and what reforms — from state voting rights acts to proportional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Evaluating a spectrum of states for their voter removal practices related to an important but often overlooked voting barrier: voter purges. Purges played a part in more than 19 million voters being ...

Erosion of Chevron deference would be a massive win for corporations and the conservative legal movement, at the expense of the public interest. Federal agencies would have less power to enact ...