Voting Rights Have Never Been Equal. These 6 Reforms Would Help

“Voter ID laws, voter purges and poll closures have long been used as strategies to alter elections,” writes Rahsaan Hall ’98, director of the racial justice program for the ACLU of Massachusetts, in a co-authored piece for WBUR’s Cognoscenti. “COVID-19 has just made it a little easier.”

Getting the First Amendment wrong

In a co-authored op-ed for The Boston Globe, Professor Woodrow Hartzog argues that Clearview AI, a facial recognition software company, is wrongfully trying to use the First Amendment to ensure a freedom to surveil at will.