Events this week in JFK Jr. Forum examined what can be done to address grinding problems of race, internet’s power to exploit political, and cultural schisms to destructive ends.

On Thursday, the conversation in the JFK Jr. Forum turned to democracy. Maya Wiley, president of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights—the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights coalition—posed the question: What is the purpose of democracy?

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