🎭 Culture Oct 8, 2026 · Brandon Tensley

Battle for the Ballot Box

The American Scholar
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An American Problem: How the Country Built—and the Supreme Court Broke—the Voting Rights Act by Michael G. Miller and Kevin T. Morris; Princeton University Press, 376 pp., $32
“I hope that our votes still matter in November.”
That was my dad, back in May, when I was in my home state of South Carolina on a reporting trip. The General Assembly was preparing to hold a special legislative session to determine whether the state’s lone heavily Black congressional district—a seat held by Representative

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