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by Josh Marshall
04.22.14 | 1:10 pm

You’ve probably read about that Princeton University study that said that America transforming from a democracy into an oligarchy as politicians have become responsive only to the very wealthy. We talked to the scholar behind the study and here he explains what he thinks the study means.

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