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How C-SPAN Can Help Congress

Television played a part in deforming the institution’s work. Could it now help to reform it?
Yuval Levin /
US – POLITICS – ECONOMY
A TV screen shows the C-SPAN live transmission from the U.S. House of the Representatives on January 1, 2013. (Photo by MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images)

This summer, longtime CNN Washington Bureau Chief Sam Feist is set to become the new CEO of C-SPAN. He’s taking over a venerable and respected Washington institution, which is really saying something these days. But the network is deeply intertwined with another Washington institution that is in far more sorry shape: the United States Congress.

Yuval Levin is director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the editor of National Affairs. His latest book, 'American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again,' has just been published.

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