On The Basic Problem of US Democracy

What can be done to preserve democracy?

WASHINGTON—Tackling the weightiest problem to face the U.S. in decades, participants at a day-long conference here wrestled with the question their keynote speaker, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.

On The Basic Problem of US Democracy

According to Lippman’s The Basic Problem of Democracy, published in the Atlantic in 1922, we are a tired and busy population trying to understand the news and what’s happening our world through the prism of our own understanding and bespoken realities. As we evaluate what’s happening in America, the data shows us that the hosts of CNN and MSNBC that report on the news are disconnected from the average person. As psychological research shows, the…