Jezebel founding editor Anna Holmes suggests mandatory communications courses for members of Congress to encourage understanding and civil debate between parties.
Fixing Government
Fixing government: Anil Dash on a social media revolution for policymakers
Technology writer and entrepreneur Anil Dash proposes that policymakers use social media to find out what their constituents want.
Fixing government: Elliot Ackerman on making 2012 a ‘three-horse race’
Elliot Ackerman talks about “Americans Elect,” an independent movement to allow ordinary Americans to nominate a candidate outside the two-party system.
Fixing government: Walter Kirn on creating a virtual Congress
Walter Kirn, who wrote the novel “Up in the Air,” says the way to fix Congress is to make all the representatives live fulltime in their districts. That way, he says, they would be forced to deal with their constituents after each controversial vote.
Making Congress work
Jeff Greenfield moderates a bipartisan panel that offers detailed proposals about how to make Congress work. Their ideas include: non-partisan primaries, mandatory voting and campaign finance reform.
Fixing government: Kurt Andersen on getting Republicans and Democrats to work together
Kurt Andersen, author and host of public radio’s “Studio 360,” says lawmakers should get to know each other by spending a minimum number of days together in Washington, D.C.
