Are You Worried About the Future of Democracy?

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CNN's John Sutter talks with author Russ Baker about the future of democracy. Baker: Democracy is at risk, but we can reform it in a fairly obvious way. He says our elites are broken; they have lost their sense of what it means to be an elite. "We need new people," he says.

Author Martin Gurri, Visiting Fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, talks about his book The Revolt of the Public with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Gurri argues that a digital tsunami--the increase in information that the web provides--has destabilized authority and many institutions. He talks about the amorphous nature of recent populist protest movements around the world and where we might be headed politically and culturally.