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    The Real Threat to American Democracy

    Michael Lind

    By fixating on the January 6 Capitol Hill riot and Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, political and media elites can conveniently ignore the deeper problems afflicting American democracy. Yet only by identifying the system’s true vulnerabilities can it be preserved. 

     thinks hand-wringing over January 6 – and the electoral issues surrounding it – misses the bigger picture.
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    What's Left of Cambridge Economics?

    James K. Galbraith

    In offering a blueprint for bringing mainstream economics into the twenty-first century, a University of Cambridge economist has unwittingly demonstrated much of what is wrong with the discipline. Ironically, the rediscovery of an earlier generation of Cambridge economists would set things right.

     thinks a new attempt to refurbish the discipline suffers from a fatal blind spot.
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