Ari Berman
Ari Berman is a senior reporter for Mother Jones, where he covers voting rights. Previously he was a senior contributing writer for The Nation magazine and a fellow at The Nation Institute. His second book, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was published in August 2015 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Follow him on Twitter: @AriBerman.
ALL POSTS BY Ari Berman
April 7, 2017Going nuclear to confirm Neil Gorsuch is the latest example of how Republicans are thwarting the will of the people.
March 20, 2017The Supreme Court nominee's ties to Hans von Spakovksy suggest a hostility to voting rights.
February 17, 2017Twenty-one states are now considering new laws to make it harder to vote.
November 15, 2016The real headline of this election was that 42 percent of eligible voters decided not to vote — either because they couldn’t or didn’t want to.
October 26, 2016New emails released to The Nation reveal ongoing GOP attempts to suppress the vote.
October 18, 2016The GOP’s voter-suppression efforts are the real voter fraud.
October 3, 2016New recordings from the DMV show how the state is continuing to disenfranchise black voters.
August 16, 2016Courts blocked the GOP from intimidating minority voters. Now Trump is trying again.
July 19, 2016Democrats are twice as likely as Republicans to be purged from the voter rolls in the state’s largest counties.
May 24, 2016200,000 registered voters could be blocked from the polls after a federal court upheld the state's photo-ID requirement
