Introduction
Since coming into office on January 20, 2025, the second Trump Administration has unleashed on the civil rights of all residents of the United States of a scale and scope unprecedented in the recent history of this country. Although not tied to a specific theme, the articles collected in this issue all speak to big questions that advocates for racial and economic justice are grappling with today. Professor Danielle Wingfield’s Massive Resistance: Then and Now invites us to consider the parallels between efforts to stymie school integration in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education and current classroom censorship attempts. In Thoughts from an Insider on the Legal Response to the Trump Administration’s First Nine Months, my former boss (and legendary civil rights litigator) Jon Greenbaum provides an overview of how public interest litigators are standing up to the lawlessness of the Trump Administration and highlights what factors are helping those efforts and which ones are hindering their success. Lastly, in Poppy Seed Bagel Progressivism or What We Talk about When We Talk about Affordable Housing Development Costs, I attempt to bring some nuance to the overheated abundance discourse in the hopes that good faith actors can arrive at a consensus that enables us to demonstrate to the public that the juice of a multiracial, social democracy is worth the squeeze.
– Thomas Silverstein, editor
