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In an epic election cycle, a new generation of civic leaders is already at work trying to fix a broken system — and restore faith in the process. Meet the rising stars of American politics

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New Civic Leaders

By Alex Altman, Massimo Calabresi, Michael Crowley, Michael Duffy, Steven Gray, Michael Grunwald, Hilary Hylton, Jay Newton-Small, Tim Padgett, Kate Pickert, Michael Scherer, Adam Sorensen, Katy Steinmetz, Feifei Sun and David Von Drehle More »


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