The State of American Democracy
There’s a new Jim Crow in the U.S. This 2.0 version is legislation passed by politicians who mouth pieties about protecting our sacred right to vote and the integrity of elections. After one of the most secure and verified elections in U.S. history there is a wave of voter suppression laws being proposed across the country. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, Republican legislators in 43 states have introduced more than 250 bills that would make it harder to vote. These measures primarily seek to impose stricter voter ID requirements, reduce the number of polling places, limit mail drop boxes and early voting. These actions are an open assault on the 1965 Voting Rights Act that Dr. King, John Lewis and so many others fought for. What’s going on with American democracy?
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Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria. He is the author of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, Our Malady and On Tyranny.
JOHN MORRISON (verified owner) –
His usual high standards. He has a bunch of podcasts on the London School of Economics website as well – well worth a listen
The Origins of the Revolution: Marx and Eastern Europe (November 2013)
The Origins of Mass Killing: the bloodlands hypothesis (January 2014)
Black Earth: the Holocaust as history and warning (September 2015)