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Mark Schmitt

Mark Schmitt is Director of the program on political reform at the New America Foundation and former executive editor of The American Prospect.

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Schmitt response to Anxieties of Democracy

The resurrection of Southern politics ushered dysfunction.

Mark Schmitt

Politics

Righting the GOP

Rick Perlstein's The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

Mark Schmitt

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Homer Simpson Politics

It is tempting to read Martin Gilens’s essay for its thorough confirmation of what I think I know about politics: that campaign finance distorts policy, that economic inequality reinforces political inequality, that even Democrats are more responsive to the well off than to the constituency they claim to champion.

Mark Schmitt

Politics

All About Obama

Jonathan Alter, The Promise: President Obama, Year One. Simon & Schuster, $16 (paper) Eric

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‘We should not dismiss the idea that Obama created a new electoral map’

Elections create stories, it’s true, moments that bring a sense of narrative structure to our

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