{"id":17700,"date":"2014-10-02T12:28:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T16:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=17700"},"modified":"2014-10-02T13:03:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T17:03:52","slug":"watch-the-new-politics-of-extremism-outlook-for-improvement-by-dr-norman-ornstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/10\/02\/watch-the-new-politics-of-extremism-outlook-for-improvement-by-dr-norman-ornstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: “The New Politics of Extremism: Outlook for Improvement?” by Dr. Norman Ornstein"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Norman Ornstein<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute spoke at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY last Thursday evening. His address for the Contemporary Issues Forum<\/a> focused on the dysfunctional workings of the current, strongly polarized U.S. Congress, the roots of the current standoff, and the prospects for improvement after the November 2014 election and beyond.<\/p>\n

Ornstein is author of The New York Times bestselling book It\u2019s Even Worse Than It Looks. <\/i>He is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a long-time observer and scholar of Congress and politics, and writes a weekly column for National Journal and The Atlantic called \u201cWashington Inside Out.\u201d For thirty years, he was an election-eve analyst for CBS News, and in 2012 he served as a principal on-air election-eve analyst for BBC News.<\/p>\n

You can watch his complete Contemporary Issues Forum address below.<\/p>\n