Aspen Ideas Festival: '2016 and the Politics of Inequality'

Journalists, nonprofit leaders and political analysts from across the political aisle discussed the politics of inequality and the role that the issue could play in the 2016 presidential elections in a conversation at the Aspen Ideas Festival this year:

• Michael Gerson, a columnist for The Washington Post and a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush

• Jim Wallis, founder and president of Sojourners, a nonprofit faith-based social justice organization

• Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO of PolicyLink, an organization that advocates for low-income families and communities

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• Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform

• Heather McGhee, president of Demos, a public policy organization focusing on political and economic equality

• David Frum, senior editor at The Atlantic

Ronald Brownstein moderated the discussion. He is a columnist, contributor and editorial director at The Atlantic.