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#262 - The Future of American Democracy
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 01:00:31
Publish Date: 2021-10-06 03:33:42
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In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Andrew Yang about the state of American democracy. They discuss Andrew’s run for the Presidency, the humiliations of campaigning, the manipulation of politics by the media, Andrew’s run for the mayor’s office in NYC, the power of bad incentives, open primaries, rank-choice voting, the Forward Party, the weakness of a two-party system, inequality, the child tax credit, enhanced unemployment, UBI, worries about inflation, and other topics.

Andrew Yang was a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and a 2021 candidate for mayor of New York City and also recently ran as a democratic candidate in the 2020 Presidential primary election. Named by President Obama as a Presidential Ambassador of Global Entrepreneurship, he is the founder of Humanity Forward and Venture for America. Yang’s New York Times bestselling book The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future helped introduce the idea of universal basic income into the political mainstream. 

In his early career, Andrew served as the CEO, co-founder or executive at a number of technology and education companies including the well-known test preparation company, Manhattan Prep. In 2011, he founded Venture for America, a non-profit which connects recent college graduates with start-ups. Yang is a graduate of Brown University, where he graduated with degrees in economics and political science, and Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review.

Andrew’s newest book, Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy, outlines the problems in our broken system and a way forward to prevent the decline of American Democracy. He currently lives in Manhattan with his wife Evelyn and two boys, is an avid basketball fan, a commentator on CNN, and host of a weekly podcast, Yang Speaks.

Website: movehumanityforward.com

Twitter: @AndrewYang

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