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Democracy Has an Attention Span ProblemWe've built a political system that requires sustained civic engagement, then surrounded it with an information environment designed to make sustained attention impossible.
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Marcus Webb
Senior Political Correspondent
PoliticsElectionsDemocracy
Marcus Webb is a senior political correspondent and opinion columnist at The Wilder Report. He has covered five presidential elections, reported from forty-two states, and interviewed sitting senators, governors, and two former presidents. His column, 'The Long View,' examines the structural forces shaping American democracy — the ones that don't make the nightly news but determine its future. Before joining The Wilder Report, he was a staff writer at two major national newspapers and a contributing editor at a prominent political magazine.
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