BY JOE CONASON When Louis Brandeis wrote in 1932 that a “single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country,” he was suggesting that state innovations might advance reform on the federal level. The progressive Supreme Court justice surely wasn’t imagining anything quite like Brownbackistan. Under Gov. Sam Brownback, however, the old Brandeis metaphor is especially apt […]

Kansas Experiment Blows Up Laboratory Of Democracy
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