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How can America depolarize?

I searched across the web for thought leaders who can help answer this question. The links below are all from early 2021.

The topics vary widely. There is a proposal for a new civics education. Some articles draw on social science research, such as learnings from other societies that have experienced conflict.

Other topics include a new

Joe Biden likes you even if you don’t like him, because it’s his job to like you, no matter how you vote.

It’s long been the cliché that voters judge politicians based on their likability. There’s truth to it, but in my experience, the deeper question isn’t how much voters like a politician, but whether they believe a politician likes them.

There isn’t enough charisma in the

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump spoke at Liberty University to thousands of people that filled the audience, where he quoted from the Bible and told the college students to “never give up.”

“You can never ever give up,” Trump told the audience on the college campus in Lynchburg, Virginia. “If you give up, you’re not going to make it.”

“Go into a field that you love,” he added, “If

The Education Department is cutting staff at its Office for Civil Rights as part of a push to reduce Washington’s footprint in education. But critics say the move will blunt the office’s response to issues like sexual assault on college campuses and racial discrimination in public schools.