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Osita Nwanevu on his New Book About Democracy's Flaws and the Need to Amend the Constitution

Osita Nwanevu on his New Book About Democracy's Flaws and the Need to Amend the Constitution

Update: 2025-10-02
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Osita Nwanevu is a contributing editor at The New Republic, a columnist at The Guardian, and the Democratic Institutions fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He is a former staff writer at The New Republic, The New Yorker, and Slate, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, In These Times, Flaming Hydra, and Gawker. His new book is The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.


Osita discusses his new book about democracy's many flaws and the desperate need to amend the Constitution to correct the inequities in representation including those in the Supreme Court, Senate, and the electoral college.


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Osita Nwanevu on his New Book About Democracy's Flaws and the Need to Amend the Constitution

Osita Nwanevu on his New Book About Democracy's Flaws and the Need to Amend the Constitution

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