Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an investigative Journalism Fellow at the Nation Institute. He graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a degree in journalism and political science. He has written extensively about American politics, civil rights and the intersection of money and politics. His stories have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian, and he is a frequent political commentator on MSNBC, C-Span and NPR. Berman has also authored several books, including; Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, and Herding Donkeys: the Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics.