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.
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May 13, 2014Senator Rand Paul has broken away from Republicans on voter ID laws in the latest about face on the issue.
April 15, 2014Democrats are making voting rights a key issue. Republicans used to do the same.
April 3, 2014The same people who favor unlimited secret money in US elections are the ones funding the effort to make it harder for people to vote.
March 7, 2014Twenty-six years after the infamous Willie Horton ad, race-based politics blocked Debo Adegbile's passage to head the Justice Department's civil rights division.
February 10, 2014Activists hold the largest civil rights rally in the South since the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965.
January 21, 2014A Pennsylvania judged ruled that the state's voter ID law infringes on the right to vote and exposed the problems with the law.
January 17, 2014The legislation represents the first attempt by a bipartisan group in Congress to reinstate the vital protections of the VRA that the Supreme Court took away.
December 5, 2013Last month the GOP-controlled Ohio Senate voted to cut early voting by a week, eliminating the “Golden Week” when Ohioans can register and vote on the same day during the early voting period.
November 8, 2013Shortly after passing the country’s worst voter suppression law, North Carolina Republicans targeted student voting.
November 4, 2013The rollout of the new voter-ID law in Texas is off to a very bad start.
