More democracy means more freedom. Or does it? American democracy is, in many peoples minds, the model for the rest of the world. Fareed Zakaria points out that the American form of democracy is one of the least democratic in use today.

Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International, a regular columnist for that magazine's domestic edition, and a political analyst for ABC News. He received a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from Harvard. He lives in New York City.

Ned Schmidtke has played leading roles on Broadway, on national tours, and at dozens of regional theaters in the United States and Canada. He currently resides in Los Angeles where he continues to work in theater as well as film and television.