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Not all polarization is bad, but the US could be in trouble

  • Written by Robert B. Talisse, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
imageProtesters and counter-protesters face off at a political rally in September 2021.AP Photo/Nathan Howard

For the first time, the United States has been classified as a “backsliding democracy” in a global assessment of democratic societies by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, an intergovernmental...

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