Elaine Kamarck

Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government

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Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and the Director of its Center for Effective Public Management; author of Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates and Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again; Hillary Clinton superdelegate

Elaine Kamarck on KCRW

Presidential debates have become reality TV, and performance is more important than substance.

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Democrats threaten to hold Bill Barr in contempt after he cancels plans to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee

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California’s billed as the heart of “resistance” to President Trump. But in this month’s Golden State primary, young and Latino voters stayed home.

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