March 2024

California’s Civil Grand Juries

The last of their kind in the nation By Katy St. Clair There is a tenet of American democracy that has fallen by the wayside in most every state except for one: California. It’s the…


Educating for Democracy

By Michael Schwalbe The latest case of right-wing Republican meddling in the curriculum of North Carolina’s public universities comes in the form of a proposed requirement, engineered by the political appointees who constitute the UNC…


Taking Media Out of the Market

By Victor Pickard It’s been a particularly brutal stretch for American journalism. Even for an industry that’s become synonymous with precarity and crisis, the recent job losses have been jolting. The Los Angeles Times announced…