"Minority Rule": Book Talk on Far Right's Assault on Democracy w/ journalist, Ari Berman

Thursday, May 30, 2024 at noon - 1 PM PT (3 – 4 PM ET)

A governing majority in the United States has never required an actual majority of the voting population. And the tactics of minority control are always shifting.

A minority of Americans are now set on thwarting the will of the people through voter suppression, gerrymandering, and even election subversion. In his new book, "Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People — and the Fight to Resist It," voting rights reporter Ari Berman charts the rise of this antidemocracy movement in the face of the country’s significant demographic and political shifts.

Join the Brennan Center for Justice on Thursday, May 30, at noon PT (3 p.m. ET) for a virtual discussion with Berman and former West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant about how reactionary conservatives have capitalized on structural inequalities in our institutions, like the Senate and the Supreme Court, to entrench their power, as well as the pro-democracy movement striving against these regressive efforts.

Speakers:

--Ari Berman, Author, Minority Rule; National Voting Rights Correspondent, Mother Jones

--Moderator: Natalie Tennant, Former Secretary of State, West Virginia


ABOUT: Ari Berman, voting rights journalist, "Mother Jones" magazine

https://www.aribermanauthor.com/about

Ari Berman is the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center. He’s the author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction) and Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post and Rolling Stone, and he is a frequent commentator on MSNBC and NPR. He's won the Sidney Hillman Foundation Prize for Magazine Journalism and an Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media. He lives in New Paltz, New York.