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 ...

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 ...

A stronger economy starts with a stronger care system. Treating care as public infrastructure would benefit care recipients, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...