With increased polarization and ongoing budgetary disputes, the U.S. government does not seem to be acting in the way that the American forefathers intended. Host Ravi Agrawal brings on historian Jill Lepore to share more. Lepore is a professor at Harvard University and the author of We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.
Plus, One Thing from Ravi on the U.S. government shutdown.
Rishi Iyengar: How a U.S. Government Shutdown Could Impact Washington’s Foreign Policy
John Haltiwanger: Why America’s ‘Unusual’ Democracy Leads to Shutdown
Andrew O’Donohue: The U.S. Judicial Crisis Is Uniquely Dangerous
Stan Veuger: Americans Need to Acknowledge Their Unwritten Constitution
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