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Thu, May 17, 2012 -- 9:00 AM

The New Politics of Extremism


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Political scientists Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein join us to discuss their new book "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism."

Host: Michael Krasny

Guests:

  • Norman Ornstein, political scientist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
  • Thomas Mann, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution

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