Ari Berman | The Nation
Ari Berman
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Ari Berman
Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute. He has written extensively about American politics, foreign policy and the intersection of money and politics. His stories have also appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone and The Guardian, and he is a frequent guest and political commentator on MSNBC, C-Span and NPR. His first book, Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics, was published in October 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux—for whom he is now working on a history of voting rights. He graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a degree in journalism and political science.
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As an investigative journalism student, I helped uncover proof that should have cleared Anthony McKinney’s name. Instead, he died in prison.
Fifty years after King’s historic march, the struggle for racial justice faces unprecedented challenges.
An inspiring grassroots movement is fighting back against the GOP’s outrageous budget cuts and attacks on democracy.
Activists are already moving ‘from outrage to action’ in fighting the Supreme Court’s awful VRA decision.
Nearly five decades after Bloody Sunday in Selma, he’s in the fight of his life, as the Supreme Court threatens to overturn his signature achievement.
Section 5 is as necessary today as it was in 1965, when Alabama state troopers beat freedom marchers in Selma.
A five-decade bipartisan consensus on this key piece of civil rights legislation has collapsed—right when we need its protections more than ever before.
It didn’t work for Republicans in this election—but their war on voting is far from dead.
It will be resisting not only voter-suppression laws in key swing states but also harassment from the Tea Party group True the Vote.
An important court decision stayed the GOP’s voter-suppression scheme in Pennsylvania. But that battle, and others like it across the nation, is only just beginning.
