A dark side to laboratories of democracy

Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 9 a.m.

The phrase \u201claboratories of democracy,\u201d coined by former U.S. Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis, is typically used to describe experiments with new social and economic policies that occur at the state level \u2014 things like voting systems and public financing of elections. This week\u2019s episode explores a different side of that approach when state and [\u2026]