political essay 5
ESSAY: Using 3 or more articles from assigned class material (and your text), as well as your actual experiences registering voters and interviewing non-voters and voters, write an essay (500-700 words) explaining the key structural challenges in American Democracy (60 points)
choose 3 articles from the following list:
- “How the Money Primary Is Undermining Voting Rights,†Ari Berman, The Nation (June 8, 2015)
- “The Secret Lists that Swiped the Senate,†Greg Palast, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 (GregPalast.com)
- 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)
- “The Election Reform Moment,” John Nichols, The Nation (Feb. 18, 2013)
- “The End of the Solid South,” Bob Moser, The American Prospect (May/June, 2013)
- “It’s Time to Diversify the Democratic Party Leadership,†by Steve Phillips, The Nation (November 18, 2016)
- “This is actually what America would look like without gerrymandering,†by Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post (January 13, 2016)
- “The United States Senate is a failed institution: It’s a malapportioned, anti-democratic embarrassment,†Ian Millhiser, Think Progress website (April 6, 2017)
- “Kabuki Democracy: And How to Fix It- Why a Progressive Presidency is Impossible, For Now,” Eric Alterman, The Nation (1/5/2011)