Schar School’s Jennifer Victor Among the 14 ‘Smartest Thinkers’ Surveyed by Politico for Insight 

"Our current political situation includes robust individual partisanship that is increasingly polarized and weak political parties neatly organized along ideological lines. This division is the result of a long-brewing storm fed by (1) segmented, vigorous social backlash to advances in civil rights in the 1960s and 2010s, (2) campaign finance regulations first adopted in the 1970s, (3) tax reforms first adopted in the 1980s and (4) modernization and deregulation of media technology in the 1990s that makes it easier for populist demagogues to gain a following. Together, these generated and exacerbated inequalities in America." Read the full article, ‘What Is Broken in American Politics Is the Republican Party’, on Politico.