CAMBRIDGE — For the better part of a decade, the diagnosis of America’s democratic distress has enjoyed a seemingly airtight consensus among populists, progressives, and policy wonks alike: the system is broken because the economy is rigged. According to this reigning paradigm, the root cause of the nation’s profound political…
CAMBRIDGE — It has become a standard refrain across living rooms, cable news studios, and academic halls across the United States: the American political system is broken. For years, diagnosticians of the American malaise have pointed their fingers at widening economic divides. The prevailing narrative suggests that the root cause…
