Alexander Keyssar

Nov 1, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Alexander Keyssar |Lisa Tetrault |Chana Kai Lee |Eric Foner

Reading Lists The right to participate in a democracy wasn't always available for every citizen Rutherford B.

May 7, 2024 | democracyparadox.com | Alexander Keyssar

Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University and the author of the book Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? Made in partnership with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and InnovationAccess Episodes Ad-Free on PatreonMake a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. Proudly sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

Apr 15, 2024 | brennancenter.org | Alexander Keyssar

The appeal raises several questions, including whether Section 2 empowers private litigants—such as the minority voters who brought these cases—to sue to challenge racially discriminatory voting practices. Since Section 2 was first enacted in 1965, Congress, the courts, the United States Department of Justice, and private litigants have all agreed that they can. But in recent years that settled understanding has come under attack. Justice Gorsuch’s concurrence in Brnovich v.

Oct 12, 2023 | brennancenter.org | Noah C. Chauvin |Michael Waldman |Thomas Wolf |Alexander Keyssar

Today the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance held a hearing on violent crime in Washington, D.C. While crime has in fact risen this year in the nation’s capital — defying a broader trend toward falling violence in major cities — some speakers made claims that are misleading or inaccurate. Below is a fact-check of several of these claims.

Oct 8, 2023 | newsweek.com | Jack Royston |Thomas Jipping |Alexander Keyssar |Thomas Wolf

My weight loss journey started in mid-March 2021 when I was 61. My weight was strictly a symptom of me being lazy, not the lockdown. When my wife showed me a picture of myself sitting down, I decided that I was tired of being tired. At that point, I weighed over 300 pounds. I had tried a few diets every once in a while, but always ended up heavier than I was before. This time, with the help of my wife, Nancy, I decided to eliminate almost all sweetened and processed food.