Nebraska is the only state that has a single legislature, which dates back to 1937. It's nonpartisan and meets five months a year - whether or not it's a budget year. The culture of the place allows different kinds of coalitions to emerge,. "I think more states should consider a unicameral," he says.
The US senator and former college president joined Tyler for a conversation on adolescence, adulthood, driving for Uber, loving Luther, hate-reading Rousseau, the decline of small towns, backpacking across Europe, America’s peculiar fondness for age-segregation, and why his latest book contains so little sex.
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Recorded June 14th, 2017
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