read-3-articles-and-write-summaries
Paste in summaries of 3 articles from the list included at the bottom of the Assignment Template. Each summary should be between 100 and 150 words providing the main point of the article and the main supporting arguments. Be sure to provide the article title and author’s name.
- “How the Money Primary Is Undermining Voting Rights,†Ari Berman, The Nation (June 8, 2015)https://www.thenation.com/article/how-money-primar…
- “Blocking the Vote,” Ashley Lopez, Ms. Magazine (Winter 2012)https://msmagazine.com/2012/02/27/blocking-the-vot…
- “The Secret Lists that Swiped the Senate,†Greg Palast, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 (GregPalast.com)https://www.gregpalast.com/the-secret-lists-that-s…
- Voting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), (Published on Feb 14, 2016)
- “Everything mattered: lessons from 2016’s bizarre presidential election. WTF just happened?,†David Roberts, Vox.com (Nov 30, 2016) https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/30…
- “The Election Reform Moment,” John Nichols, The Nation (Feb. 18, 2013) https://www.thenation.com/article/election-reform-…
- “The End of the Solid South,” Bob Moser, The American Prospect (May/June, 2013) https://prospect.org/article/end-solid-south
- “It’s Time to Diversify the Democratic Party Leadership,†by Steve Phillips, The Nation (November 18, 2016) https://www.thenation.com/article/its-time-to-dive…
- “Fear of Diversity Made People More Likely to Vote Trump: The 2016 election was really a battle about having an open society,†Sean McElwee and Jason McDaniel, The Nation (March 14, 2017) https://www.thenation.com/article/fear-of-diversit…
- “The System IS Rigged!—The Electoral College and the 2016 Election by Bob Wing, Bill Fletcher Jr., Common Dreams (November 30, 2016) https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-system-is…
- “This is actually what America would look like without gerrymandering,†by Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post (January 13, 2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/0…
- “The United States Senate is a failed institution: It’s a malapportioned, anti-democratic embarrassment,†Ian Millhiser, Think Progress website (April 6, 2017) https://thinkprogress.org/antidemocratic-history-o…
- “Kabuki Democracy: And How to Fix It- Why a Progressive Presidency is Impossible, For Now,” Eric Alterman, The Nation (1/5/2011)
