Ari Berman

Smart, Fearless Journalism Ari Berman Ari Berman is Mother Jones’ national voting rights correspondent. He’s the author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. Latest The Long Era of Republican Gerrymandering in Wisconsin May Finally Be Over Ari Berman Sign up for our free newsletter Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. Get our award-winning magazine Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. Subscribe Mag Promo Independent. In print. In your mailbox. Inexpensive, too! Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $14.95. Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners.

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47%

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a poor reputation for journalistic standards and is not considered a reliable news source.

Bias

50%

Examples:

  • Alito employs a hypothetical about Black basketball players to illustrate his view that the policy is denying admission to those who deserve it most
  • The article presents Thomas Jefferson High School's new admissions policy as a victory for those who want to maintain racial segregation in schools.
  • The goal of the Pacific Legal Foundation and others in this extreme colorblindness movement is to take racial justice off the table as an objective for policymaking at all levels of government

Conflicts of Interest

50%

Examples:

  • The article does not mention any conflicts of interest.

Contradictions

100%

Examples:

Deceptions

30%

Examples:

  • The article does not provide enough information to assess the validity of Alito's dissent.
  • The article presents a hypothetical scenario about Black basketball players that may not reflect the reality of the case.

Recent Articles

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenge to Thomas Jefferson High School Admissions Program

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenge to Thomas Jefferson High School Admissions Program

Broke On: Tuesday, 20 February 2024 The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case challenging the admissions program at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia, which was designed to increase racial and economic diversity. The new policy did not take race into account but is considered race-neutral but race-blind. If adopted, it would be a legal earthquake as it goes beyond rejection of affirmative action and bans admissions policies that do not actually take race into account.