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One person, one vote. It’s a bedrock principle of American democracy. But it’s never been entirely true.
At various points, Black Americans, Native Americans and women have all been shut out of voting (and that’s just a partial list). There’s no question that voting rights are stronger today than when our nation was founded, but it’s also true that, in America, each vote does not count equally in every election.
This week on Reveal, we take a deep dive into the modern version of a very old problem: how the political institutions created by the Founding Fathers were meant to constrain democracy, and still do. Host Al Letson joins Mother Jones correspondent Ari Berman, author of “Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People – and the Fight to Resist It.”
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