Sixty years ago this summer, Congress enacted the nation-transforming Voting Rights Act. Soon, however, Congress and a ...

The Supreme Court will issue its final six opinions of the current term Friday — from cases it heard in the spring and ...

Minority Rule Is Threatening American Democracy Like Never Before The Founding Fathers planted a bomb in the Constitution. Donald Trump lit the fuse. Ari Berman May+June 2024 Issue ...

It’s mob rule that endangers the rights of the minority. It would also make it easier for Congress to pass laws. We should want to make it harder given how many bad and invasive laws we live under ...

More human and civil rights Democracy is majority rule—but it’s also comparatively good at protecting minorities. That may seem like a paradox, but consider the role of the rule of law and and ...

Journalist and author Ari Berman, his new book, Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People — and the Fight to Resist It, voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones magazine.

They created institutions that allowed a minority of the population to control a majority of political power. That idea is directly at odds with the idea that a democracy should be based on the ...

It's a fundamental tension in a democracy: How do you have majority rule in a way that also protects minority rights? Journalist Ari Berman says the Founding Fathers struggled with that question ...

It's a fundamental tension in a democracy: How do you have majority rule in a way that also protects minority rights? Journalist Ari Berman says the Founding Fathers struggled with that question ...