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Senior Editor Anne Kim interviews leading thinkers, scholars, journalists, and policymakers about the big ideas shaping public policy.

Political scientist Seth Masket’s new book explains how history and party mechanics made Donald Trump’s ascent inevitable. The party may never recover.
Third Way’s Jim Kessler discusses the think tank’s new policy agenda for middle-class America.
Veteran pollster Stefan Hankin points to several factors wrecking polling’s reputation.
The CEO of the world’s first “female-forward” AI startup has a plan for tackling bias in artificial intelligence.
Vote-at-home pioneers Phil Keisling and Barbara Smith Warner weigh in on the long-term impacts of Trump’s campaign against vote by mail.
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A new report makes a nuanced case for what post-secondary graduates need to get ahead.
Congress finally opened Pell Grants to short-term job training. Now states have to build the systems that can tell which programs actually work.
High costs, political attacks take a toll as fewer students come, top scholars leave.
New survey data suggests that more Americans might see the value of a degree if schools simplified their pricing systems.
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