How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
by Katherine M. Gehl
Recommended by Mark Cuban
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This is a readable, argument-driven critique that frames current U.S. politics as an industry shaped by money, gerrymandering, and party incentives. It’s strongest when translating complex incentives into business-style language and real-world examples that make the stakes plain. The main limitation is a persistent prescriptive tone and repetition: the same structural failures and solution pitches recur, so the middle stretches can feel long. Useful for people wanting clear reform arguments, less helpful for those seeking purely balanced academic nuance.
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Our political system has become big businessand business is boomingyet solutions to big problems seem impossible. Behold, the politicalindustrial complex. Rampant lobbying and gerrymandering. Election spending rising exponentially with each cycle. The Democratic and Republican parties competing furiously against each other for advantage, while...
Difficulty:hard
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Politics, and Social Sciences.
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Mark Cuban
American investor and entrepreneur (born 1958)
“This is a great book about how the Duopoly has been used to shut out competition and polarize the country”
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“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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