America’s Dysfunctional Politics

Thursday, May 3, 2012
Speakers
Norman J. Ornstein
American Enterprise Institute
Thomas E. Mann
Brookings Institution
Presider
James M. Lindsay
Council on Foreign Relations

Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein discuss their new book, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism.

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