Not too many political parties, not too few. A UMD professor's plan to save our democracy.

Published Mar 8, 2024, 4:45 PM

America’s democracy is in crisis. A University of Maryland constitutional scholar has a plan to fix it -- maybe not the plan you’d expect. In "Parliamentary America," Professor Maxwell Stearns says the flaw is our two entrenched political parties.

Stearns will be speaking on Sunday at 3 p.m. at Politics & Prose in Washington, DC and on Monday evening at 7 p.m. in the Pratt Library’s Writers Live! Series.

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