We close-out series three with a piece on Threats to American Democracy from the FiveThirtyEight website, featuring multiple sources of data and different perspectives, allowing our readers to make their own judgments.

This week, Andrew Rudalevige and Douglas Brinkley, discuss the fourth threat to our democracy: growing Presidential Power.

In week four, UC Berkeley Professor and former-US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich talks about the threat posed to American democracy by our high and growing level of economic inequality.

In week three of our series, Professor Carol Anderson shares how the conflict over who participates in American politics, the second threat to our democracy, has played out before, during, and after elections.

In their new book, The Upswing (Simon & Schuster, 2020), Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett talk about times of extreme Political Polarization and how America overcame them. This week is an analysis of how our nation can become a society once again based on community.

For the next six weeks, we will focus on major challenges that American democracy has overcome in the past as well as those facing us today. We begin with a conversation between Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman talking about their new book, Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy.