Our Changing Political Geography

Professor David Fontana writes for The Daily Beast about the effects of increasing urbanization on American law and politics. As an example, he uses New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's new book, which focuses heavily on New York City, paying less attention to rural parts of the state. "One of the precious and underappreciated jewels of America has always been its geographical diversity," Professor Fontana writes. "We are and always have been a country of city and county, downtowns and small towns. But as Americans change where they live, our politics must change how it works in response.”