Demos president Sabeel Rahman on American lawmaking and politics

July 26, 2019
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Innovating the Future host and New America CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter talks to Sabeel Rahman, a former New America fellow and the president of Demos. Rahman is an expert on how the underlying economic structures, as guided by American lawmaking, have influenced American politics.

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