In Plyler v. Doe, the Supreme Court held that the Equal Protection clause protects the rights of undocumented immigrants to equal access to public education.

Thanks to the bravery of Richard and Mildred Loving, on June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court held that laws prohibiting interracial marriage violated the Equal Protection and Due Process protections of the Fourteenth Amendment.

"One thing driving Labour’s over performance was youth turnouts," Sean McElwee, a policy analyst who studies voter attitudes and behavior at the progressive think tank Demos, said in an interview. McElwee thinks that Labour’s success could be a model for progressives in the United States provided

It’s easy to lose sight of what’s at the heart of this investigation.

For the past few weeks, keeping up with the latest developments in the head-spinning Trump-Russia scandal has been a full-time job.

We are not paying close enough attention to this poisonous phenomenon, which is upending longstanding norms and changing the very nature of our society.

This Mothers’ Day, as the mother of two stepsons who came from Guatemala and one son born here, I’m grateful that all three of my children and their father have their papers. That was literally the first thing that crossed my mind after Donald Trump was elected.

Here, we offer new data to show that shifts in which racial groups went to the polls may have made the difference.

Sean McElwee, a policy analyst for Demos and frequent contributor to Salon, published a statistical analysis last week, based on data collected by the American National Election Studies that clearly demonstrates that racism, rather th

Much like Election Day, Tax Day is a shared expression of our democracy enacted by its participants.