With increased polarization and ongoing budgetary disputes, the U.S. government does not seem to be acting in the way that the American forefathers intended. Host Ravi Agrawal brings on historian Jill Lepore to share more. Lepore is a professor at Harvard University and the author of We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.

Plus, One Thing from Ravi on the U.S. government shutdown.

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John Haltiwanger: Why America’s ‘Unusual’ Democracy Leads to Shutdown

Andrew O’Donohue: The U.S. Judicial Crisis Is Uniquely Dangerous

Stan Veuger: Americans Need to Acknowledge Their Unwritten Constitution

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