WORT 89.9FM Madison · The Divided States of America with Dr. Kettl

In an increasingly polarized nation, Americans’ access to abortion, health care, education and justice depend more and more upon the state in which they live. 

Dr. Don Kettl argues that the wide inequities we see from state to state result from the 235-year old system of federalism created by James Madison as a compromise to keep the young United States together.

Dr. Kettl is a former dean of the University Maryland Department of Public Policy, and is the author of a new book “The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn’t Work.”

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