James Harrigan — Can We Have Principled Politicians?
The Curious Task
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The Restrictive Structure of American Politics
John Avlon: Politicians don't wake up and say, I'm going to make education worse. They must think they're doing more good than harm. He says the partisan differences that we see amount to a hill of beans for exactly that reason. Avlon: The word leader is typically pejorative; only time it's used in a non-pejorative way is to refer to leaders of the previous revolution.
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