Magazines segment, democracy under strain. Peter, thank you for being here. Guest thank you for having me on. Host what prompted an eightpa rt series, democracy under strain . Well, we are trying to find out what adds to the conversation. We look at all the stuff going wrong with democracy today. Partisanship is out of control. Isre is gridlock, nothing getting done. Peter has been around a while, and he can look and see how these things stretch beyond the trumpcare wreck how they started, and where they are going. Host so the most recent piece was entitled block the vote the history of efforts to change and contain and change voting practices in america. On voting access, and what did you find . Thet well, i started with vote. Voting is of course the core aspect of democracy. It is how we participate, and there are a lot of issues surrounding voting right now. Is onely Voting Rights that a lot of democrats and republicans are fighting about. The statesnd is that are really going into