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It's Friday, April 25th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker.

American politicians like to describe the United States as the world's oldest democracy,

but a new study argues that the middle class and the poor have virtually no influence over

our politics, and thus that our claims of being a democracy at all are seriously threatened.

John Cassidy and Hendrick Hertzberger are here today to talk about that argument.

John, political science reports don't often go viral, although you may enjoy reading them.

The rest of us tend to avoid them.

But Martin Gillens of Princeton and Benjamin Page of Northwestern clearly have touched a nerve here.

But what's new?

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