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Policy recommendations to strengthen American democracy
Two years ago, the 240-year-old American Academy of Arts and Sciences created a bipartisan commission to analyze the state of American democracy. The group is now issuing a report detailing 31 recommendations for how to strengthen it. Two of the three commission chairs, Harvard University’s Danielle Allen and Stephen Heintz of the Philanthropic Foundation, join Judy Woodruff to discuss.
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