Jenna Spinelle
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Democracy Works: Who pays for American democracy? (opens the original)
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Our guest this week argues that you can't talk about the history of democracy in America without talking about the history of taxation in America. Vanessa Williamson is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings, and a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. She studies taxation and democracy in America. Her most recent book, "The Price of Democracy," reveals the revolutionary power of taxation in American history. She is also the author of Read My Lips: Why Americans Are
Democracy Works: Political status and the DSA summer (opens the original)
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While Democracy Works was away over the summer, it was hard to miss stories about Democratic primary elections and seeming rise of the Democratic Socialists of America — followed almost immediately about the challenges DSA candidates will face in November's election. For our first episode of the fall season, we talk with a social movement scholar about whether the DSA's policies can win over enough votes to win in a general election and why political coalitions don't always align with the struct
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