michael brown, as i mentioned, has been a fellow at aei for many years. he's one of our nation's preeminent political analysts and election experts and is currently a columnist for the washington examiner. he's the author of many books in american politics and history, including the yearly editions of the almanac of american politics from 1972 to 2006. the most authoritative annual resource on elections, parties and our country's political geography. and it's interesting that i start with i end with the word geography, because this book, mental maps of the founders how geographic imagination guided america's revolutionary leaders, takes us out of the 21st and 20th century. back into our founding period. but what is what is a mental map? what are you trying to what are you getting at there? well, a mental map. we all carry mental maps around with this, although some of them are now some of us are now delegating that to our phone devices. but you know how we get to the grocery store with which entrance to the parking lot. we want to use and things like that

all of these conversations are available through aei and brookings websites. if you would like to catch up on the front porch. today we will look back in history almost 90 years at the results of the new deal projects, farm services administration casagrande valley farms and now county arizona today part of the phoenix mesa chandler metro area. this experiment is a very early example of federally sponsored directed place -based economic development casagrande was reviewed by edward c banfield the book you have on the tables, government project it was published first in 1951. as we will hear from our guests senior fellow kevin kosar the book tells how casagrande an and agricultural cooperatives have sought to boost employment, income and economic self-sufficiency among impoverished residents of arizona and other southwest states casagrande despite its best intentions struggled was eventually shut down when the nation emerged the great depression during world war ii. our main question today is whether and how and if insights ought to inform our thinking about fe

all these conversations are available through the aei and brookings website. if you would like to catch up on front porch. today we are going toy look back at the results of the foreign service administrations forms in arizona, part of the phoenix metro area. this experiment is a very example of the directed economic development and was reviewed by edward banfield in the book you have on the tables, government project and was published first in 1951. as we will hear from our guest, the senior fellow it tells how casagrande sought to boost employment income and self-sufficiency among those in arizona and other states, casagrande despite its best intentions struggled from its inception when it was shut down in the nation emerged from the great depression during world war ii. our main question today is whether and howst and if the insights ought to inform our thinking about federal, rural and economic programs especially those in the nonmetropolitan areas. this is an important question especially in light of the larger investments being made through bipartisan ch

today's gathering is part of a large and ambitious project for us here at aei. and i want to say just a few words about it before we get started. 20, 26, two years from now, will mark the 250th anniversary of the american founding. a lot of organizations are going to find ways to recognize that milestone in a variety of ways. but in thinking through what kind of distinct contribution we might be able to make, in particular, we thought that we should produce something of a lasting intellectual product through a set of conferences that then will yield a set of books and educational materials. beyond that, explore how americans now should understand some of the key themes and questions at issue in our country's founding. those materials can outlast the anniversary, can serve educators and students and citizens for many years to come. and to do that, they'll draw on scholars from a variety of fields with a diversity of viewpoints to offer americans some wisdom about our civic and political inheritance. and so, over the course of more than two years, we're hosting ei

or you can use the hashtag on twitter election watch aei. so look for a question of that i'll start with ruy cooper tussled at about the big demographic picture of where we stand in election cycle today. >> sure. the big question in everybody's mind is now that biden has been summarily removed, democratic presidential nominee replaced by kamala harris, what does that do broadly to the democrats chances? obviously i think it's made a little better. it's entirely unclear, panacea for all the ails them but clearly the race has is tig. one thing i'm looking at, what does the kamala coalition look like? only space of what we know so far. again this is early days, there's been very little high quality polling rescinds biden the race but maybe there's enough to start to discern some of the contours of what might be the, kamala coalition. in talking about this,s, i mean, obviously window bit of a silly season here in terms of how people feel about the harris coalition and kamala. there's been massive, basically super favorable coverage, just blanket

he's the nonresident fellow at aei. it really speaks of our in so many ways jay and his work focuses really on political theory and political history. he's done a lot of work in the last years on what you might call civic republicanism. and we'll actually talk a little bit about what exactly that means because it has a lot to do with the subject taking up in this sessions among books may be the one most relevant to that subject is the price of greatness. alexander, james madison and the creation of american oligarchy, published by basic in 2018. jay has a ph.d. from the university of chicago. we'll hear from each of them and and then have a bit of a conversation about it. and we'll start with you, clint. please. and we thank you very much for that very kind introduction. and also thank you very much for inviting me to this very important project. i'm really thrilled to be here to address everyone. so the presentation going to give today is entitled the american revolution and the pursuit of economic equality. what i'll

we are joined by rotating panels, including some ai people --aei people, including ruy teixeira. he spent a number of years being an expert on election demographics, worked with us on the states of change, a great project which really looked at the way american demographics were changing. and the author of "the emerging democratic majority," which you will never from earlier, and, more recently, "where have all the democrats gone?" also the liberal patriot blockade i will not enter into much. sara fagen is with us. she was a former top campaign aide for george w. bush's campaign and white house political director, the founder of a campaign analytics firm, and is the ceo of tunnl data. mark mellman, the ceo of the mellman group, he is an academically trained political scientist has been living in the real world, if you want to call it that. sometimes he will teach at yale, has a column in "the hill." i noted, when used to read "the hill," the paper version, i want tighter column that set next to his. you have been doing it at least 20 years, and you also have a list of democratic

today he is wearing a aei visor. he is a scholar, and the more full-time job is professor of health at georgetown university law center. he has published a number of books before, starting with medicare -- also, overcharged a few years ago, which we will talk about to some extent, and also, working in the government. he was special counsel at the ftc. so, this is kind of like trying to put a normal brain into the healthcare, abnormal monstrous system. in other words, it's sort of like a frankenstein moment, and as gene wilder in young frankenstein explains, even though it seems odd, this could work. david is going to explain how this could work. david hyman. thank you. >> thanks, tom, and thank you all for coming. this -- i don't think i can match gene wilder. this is a paper with charlie silver, who could not be with us, my regular co-author at the university of texas, and the title that i gave it harkens back, obviously, to some of the points that tom made and the sort of broader theme of these two articles. it act

moore at aei.org or use the tag on twitter alexion watch aei. they will tell us the big demographic picture of where we stand. >> sure. the big question now that biden has been replaced what does that do to the democrats chances. it is unclear the panacea but the race has heightened. is what is it -- what does the kamala coalition look like? again, these are early days. there has been little high-quality polling released since biden left the race, but maybe there's enough to discern the contours of what might be the kamala coalition. in talking about this, obviously, we are in a little bit of a silly season here in terms of how people feel about the harris coalition and kamala. there has been massive, basically super favorable coverage, just blanketing the centerleft media. they are extremely happy. they are delighted. we are now in a situation where it has got to the point where people are like, oh my god, it's the obama coalition, it's coming back, it's like obama coalition 2.0. one thing people do not really understand the demographic nature

tump, and they ask them would you support trump if you put a black man on the ticket, if they chose aeyen and they sa, no, they wouldn't. it reminds me of my favorite harriet tubman line that said i would have saved more if i knew they were slaves. the reality is the one thing i think makes kamala harris the right leader for this moment is something she used to tell us when i worked in the white house and that wasin when you go into these rooms, when you go into the oval office ornt go into th roosevelt room, you take people into thoseyo rooms that don't en know that the rooms exist. she would always say she sees people. she said that today when talking about the israel, palestine issue. she sees people. unique to black women in particular. we're often looking up and considering people okeven befor our own selves, also consistent with who she is, the way she was raised by two immigrant parents in a very multiracial neighborhood. her first memories were of her in a w stroller marching for freedom for all people. and so her ethos is to see people. and so i think what she's doing, she has

health reform and with those ideas sometimes they get deployed or ignored this is actually the graphic aei sent out but you did not choose it. it's a very important issue with lots of government policies. and where the aspects of the current healthcare system. and with the c- grade with the performance of the system that's not to say and it is truly exceptional with most of the career spent studying the healthcare system i got to see it on the other side is a trauma patient and is pretty exceptional let's not talk about the building that followed but nonetheless you should not assume that are not hiccups or problems or difficulties we have not thought about. unintended consequences. by way of analogy there is a movie a couple years ago called particle fever and there's a wonderful quote from a theoretical physicist jumping from failure to failure there is a lot of that in health policy as well. and then to focus on the things that have gone wrong but there is no shortage of things the big 3 issues of health policy i used to tell my students they could be a health policy analyst as well but

if i'm if i'm shown a statistics by a politician or by aei, it should be in my it should be my that i say, wait, where did this come from? this doesn't sound right. i have some sense of how math works, how numbers work, how dollar amounts work that this doesn't quite sound right. what is the source of this information? let me dig a little bit. right. so i think there has to be a culture where we are not intimidated by math and are willing to to question and engage with it. i think. so that's sort of as a mathematician, that's kind of the best and probably a cop out answer answer. thank you all for this conversation and for the book. so to come back, that last point about quantitative literacy education, you teach your course on math and politics. could you just talk little bit about how teaching that course changed way? you write the book or write the book thanks. thank you for the questions. it's almost as if planted it. it's it really. i didn't i swear swear. so this book. yes in many ways this is an outgrowth of the course that i teach at wellesley college. math and politics, which

richard gaddis is the founding director of the cornell program, a senior fellow with aei who previously served as commissioner of the nae -- national safe transportation policy and revenue study commission. thank you for being here. would you begin? >> good morning. chairman brown, ranking member scott, members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity to testify at today and for your leadership and partnership as we work to deliver projects to build a stronger, safer transportation system that transfers people to jobs, housing and one another. d.o.t. has been working tirelessly executing the vision of the infrastructure investment and jobs act. because of this generational investment, the biden-harris administration has announced $461 billion of rewards funding over 60,000 specific projects in all 50 states, district of columbia, territories and for tribes. as i have traveled across the country, the headlines don't come close to telling the full story about the significance. nationally, 47% of u.s. population spends more than 50% of annual income -- 15% of their annual income on

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and the interesting thing about it is when i first moved to washington, when i was the president of aeis what i want. that's what i want for my community. i want more unity for my family, for the future of the country, but they get into this suboptimal political equilibrium where they feel like they can't get any support from their party unless they're being as extreme as possible. and that's what we need to actually start breaking out of. the good news is i see all sorts of green shoots at the state and local level, all kinds of politicians all over the country that actually want to unify and are not trying to get 100%. here's this weird dynamic they have in politics in washington, which is kind of political entertainment at this point. it's like a ceo saying, when i'm negotiating with one of my subs, if i don't get 100% of this negotiation, i've completely lost. that's wrong. you don't want to get 100%. you want people to walk away from negotiating table actually happier than when they came. everybody gets something. that's the kind of politics that can actually win, and in a long-ter