cover of episode Voting Rights in 2018: Sasha Abramsky on Florida, plus Rebecca Traister on women's anger

Voting Rights in 2018: Sasha Abramsky on Florida, plus Rebecca Traister on women's anger

2018/10/19
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The most important voting rights issue on the ballot in 2018 is restoring the voting rights of 1.4 million ex-felons in Florida--and it seems likely to pass. An initiative on the ballot there would repeal one of country's worst Jim Crow laws. Sasha Abramsky has that story. Also: the political power of women’s anger: Rebecca Traister has been thinking about that. Her new book is called “Good and Mad.” .