The Two-Party System Is Making America Ungovernable
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The Republican and Democratic parties are entrenched in calcified partisanship, where politics is played as a zero-sum game. The rise of the Tea Party, liberal backlash, and the exodus of moderate voices from Congress all point toward the public's growing discontent. Has our two-party system failed us? Is this a call to change our two-party system of governance?
Lloyd R. Cohen
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- Professor of Law at George Mason University
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- M.D., Director of Transplantation and Professor of Surgery at SUNY Upstate Medical University
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- M.D., Resident Scholar at AEI and a Psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic in Washington, D.C.
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James F. Childress
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- Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics at the University of Virginia
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- M.D., Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Director of Medical Affairs of The Transplantation Society (TTS)
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- Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and Director of the Center on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia
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