Questions Answered

Many thanks to the hundreds of readers who responded to our survey with thoughtful questions! We’re delightfully overwhelmed. For the next three days, we’ll be answering a select few that we think represent broader themes; today’s theme is polarization / bipartisanship. You can also read additional answers from a previous round of questions here. (It’s a very long edition, but searchable by keyword!)

We should note that while we received many questions about COVID, we’re not medical professionals, and so we’ll refer concerns about masks or vaccines to medical authorities....