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Election Spotlight

Books to inform and illuminate this voting season
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Recommended by Washington Monthly, Washington Times, London Review of Books, among others, Alexander Keyssar’s Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? explains the enduring problem of this controversial institution.

Key Issue—Inequality

Capital and Ideology
Unbound
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
The Wolf at the Door
Racism in America

Racism in America: A Reader is an invitation to understand anti-Black racism through the eyes of our most incisive commentators.

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In the News

The Embattled Vote in America
In a New York Times video, Allan J. Lichtman tells us who will win the 2020 presidential election and why.
The Cabinet

The Cabinet
Lindsay M. Chervinsky made the case at USA Today that presidential candidate Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris for Vice President strengthens the odds that a future Biden administration’s cabinet will look “like America.”

Protecting Democracy

Law and Leviathan
The People vs. Democracy
Bring the War Home
Democracy
Also available: The New Despotism • The Price of Democracy • 
Reconstructing Democracy • Me the People

Suffrage School

Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library unveils Suffrage School, a new
digital series in honor of the centennial of Women’s Suffrage.
Why They Marched
Susan Ware speaks about a 1919 handbill urging suffragists to “Finish the Fight!”
The Chinese Must Go
Beth Lew-Williams discusses a 1926 anti-immigration speech by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Empowered Citizenship

Voice, Choice, and Action
The Rise of the Latino Vote
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