Video: How to Get Our Democracy Back

Video: How to Get Our Democracy Back

Find out Professor Lawrence Lessig’s solutions and ideas for how to fix Congress in this video companion to his cover story, “How to Get Democracy Back.”

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Professor Lawrence Lessig has known Barack Obama for 20 years, and supported all his campaigns. In this video produced for The Nation and FixCongressFirst.org, Lessig outlines his concern over President Obama’s limited approach to truly “changing Washington,” and his view that Congress is a deeply broken institution in need of need reform. Learn about Professor Lessig’s ideas and read about his proposed solutions in this video companion to his cover story for the February 4, 2010 issue of The Nation magazine, “How To Get Our Democracy Back.”

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