Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Dēmos President ...

In the second piece of the series, Dēmos co-founder David Callahan takes us back to the late 1990s—a moment that appeared ...

More than 815,000 Alabamians are missing from the electoral process. In this report, Stand Up Mobile, Dēmos, and SCSJ examine ...

Stephen Heintz, one of Dēmos’ founding presidents, reminds us why the work of building a multiracial democracy and inclusive ...

A new report exposes the barriers pushing more than 815,000 Alabamians out of the electoral process — and offer commonsense solutions to bring them back in.

Stephen Heintz, one of Dēmos’ founding presidents, reminds us why the work of building a multiracial democracy and inclusive ...

This analysis shows the policy approaches most likely to reduce inequities in wealth by race, as opposed to exacerbating existing inequities. The dramatic increase in wealth inequality over the past ...

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 ...

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 City of Detroit’s bankruptcy was driven by a severe decline in revenues (and, importantly, not an increase in obligations to fund pensions). Depopulation and long-term unemployment caused ...

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 ...