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Michael Shermer speaks with Andrew Yang about the Forward Party, the future of politics in a party duopoly, political partisanship, and how to bring about the change we need. This conversation is based on Yang\\u2019s new book Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy.

Shermer and Yang discuss: why we have a political duopoly, instead of, say, 7 parties like in Germany \\u2022 ranked-choice voting and open primaries \\u2022 gerrymandering and voting restriction laws and policies \\u2022 the Rational Public \\u2022 fairness doctrine \\u2022 local journalism, newspapers, and TV stations \\u2022 term limits \\u2022 nonpartisan primaries \\u2022 data as a property right \\u2022 Department of Technology \\u2022 Universal Basic Income (UBI) \\u2022 reparations \\u2022 abortion \\u2022 the polarization of radio, television, and social media \\u2022 ideology and political polarization \\u2022 Trump in 2016, 2020 \\u2026 and 2024? \\u2022 what it\\u2019s like to run for President \\u2022 what his fellow politicians are really like in person \\u2022 what he learned on the campaign trail \\u2022 how his many failures in life prepared him for political campaigning \\u2022 why market solutions to social media polarization won\\u2019t work \\u2022 why you should join the Forward Party even if you don\\u2019t agree with all their points.

Andrew Yang was a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and a 2021 candidate for mayor of New York City. Named by President Obama as a Presidential Ambassador of Global Entrepreneurship, he is the founder of Humanity Forward and Venture for America. Yang\\u2019s New York Times bestselling book The War on Normal People helped introduce the idea of universal basic income into the political mainstream. Yang is a graduate of Brown University, where he graduated with degrees in economics and political science, and Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He lives with his family in New York.