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Wisconsin Republicans have drafted bills that would limit how race and racism are taught in K-12 and University of Wisconsin System schools across the state. The proposals follow a national trend of GOP legislators advancing bills on the state and national level that they say are aimed at protecting students from harmful and divisive lessons about racism. Opponents argue the proposals will have a chilling effect on important teaching about systemic racism in the United States. Under one of the bills, teachers at public and independent charter schools in Wisconsin would be barred from teaching “that one race or...

In the United States, the right-wing voter suppression efforts reached a level not seen since the era of segregation, when white supremacists in the South had passed laws to deny Black Americans the right to vote and threatened everyone who dared to resist with violence. The nation is now divided between people who want a multiracial democracy in which every American is allowed and encouraged to vote and those who yearn for an anti-democratic system in which an extremist white minority has unchecked control over everyone else. The latter group is represented by the Republican Party, which is brazenly...

Millions of jobless workers in Republican-led states across the U.S. are growing increasingly worried that they soon will not be able to afford rent, medicine, and other basic necessities as GOP governors rush to cut off pandemic-related unemployment benefits, a widely condemned attack on struggling people that the Biden administration insists it is powerless to stop. At least 22 Republican governors  so far have moved to withdraw from a federal program that boosted regular unemployment checks by $300 per week to help jobless people weather the ongoing economic crisis. Of those Republican-led states, 19 are also ending their participation in...

The Capitol attack was a warning: the United States democracy is at risk. To fix the system before the midterms, two steps have to be enacted before the 2022 midterms. Academics rarely agree about the big issues, and generally hesitate to enter the political fray by signing collective public statements. Yet more than 100 leading scholars of democracy endorsed a remarkable Statement of Concern, which I also signed, warning about grave threats to American democracy and the deterioration of U.S. elections. “We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary – including suspending the filibuster – in order...

Governor Tony Evers will seek a second term in office in 2022. The governor announced his reelection bid on June 5 during a speech at the state Democratic Party convention. Evers, who narrowly defeated former Republican Governor Scott Walker in 2018, told attendees at the virtual convention that Democrats have “a veto pen to protect” in the governor’s office. “Wisconsin, I’m in. I’m running for re-election. We’ve accomplished a lot in the last few years, but we’re just getting started. We have more work to do, together,” he said. “This is the moment where we can choose to fix...