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Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union
American Democracy's “Achilles Heel”
Experts discuss one of American democracy’s biggest vulnerabilities: race relations. This isn’t solely a contemporary tension within our democracy; it’s been present since the founding of the country, then a young nation deeply invested in the slave trade. Racial divisions were written into American laws; racial violence was tolerated.
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Follow the pursuit of democracy from the Revolutionary War through recurring cycles of...