A Government Built to Stall—and What That Means for Democracy (with Hannah Garden-Monheit)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer · Feb 3, 2026 · 45m

If democracy is going to survive, it has to deliver.

This week, Goldy and Civic Ventures president Zach Silk are joined by Hannah Garden-Monheit, a former senior official in the Biden-Harris administration, for a conversation about one of the most urgent questions in American politics: why our government so often fails to produce visible results for working people—and what that means for what comes next.

At a time when public institutions are being dismantled faster than they were ever built, this episode looks beyond easy cynicism and asks what it would take to rebuild a government people…