Last week on Tuesday, January 5, Georgia held two major runoff elections for the history books, with Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock winning Senate seats that will put Democrats in the majority. Rev. Warnock is the first Black senator from Georgia, and Ossoff is the first Jewish senator from Georgia. At 33 years […]
Trump Campaign Files Lawsuit Seeking to Overturn Wisconsin Election Re...
Photo by Connor Betts on Unsplash. The lawsuit from Trump’s legal team asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes in Milwaukee and Dane County. It aims to garner Wisconsin’s ten electoral votes for President Trump, in a state president-elect Joe Biden won by more than 20,000 votes. The lawsuit, […]
Election Aftermath: Voting in Kenosha and What’s Next for Americ...
It’s the election week that never sleeps—and neither does our coverage! Today, we examine the election aftermath with two Wisconsin guests. In the first segment, we hear from Tanya McLean, a community organizer who worked to get out the Black and Brown vote in Kenosha. Then, Ruth Conniff from the Wisconsin Examiner join us to […]
2020 Election Reflections with Bob McChesney and Matt Rothschild
The votes are still being counted and Americans are abuzz about what this all could mean for the future of our democracy. Today, Allen sits down for a post-election reflection chat with friends of the show Bob McChesney and Matt Rothschild. Bob McChesney is an activist scholar and professor in the department of communication at the […]
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
For this special election-day edition of the show, guest host Nada Elmikashfi spends the hour with historian Alexander Keyssar talking about the ins-and-outs of the Electoral College and trying to answer the question at the heart of his new book: Why do we still have the Electoral College? Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling […]
What’s the Word: Counting
The way our votes are counted has changed quite a bit over the years, and this year is no different with the massive turn to absentee ballots. Today on “What’s the Word” Adam Schuster digs into the history of vote-counting, the wild methods used centuries ago and how advancements in access and technology still leave […]
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