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Bridging America's divides requires a willingness to work together without becoming friends first

  • Written by Francesca Polletta, Professor of Sociology , University of California, Irvine
imageMaking friends isn't necessary for solving America's divisions.Timsa/Getty

Amid two crises – the pandemic and the national reckoning sparked by the killing of George Floyd – there have been anguished calls for Americans to come together across lines of race and partisanship. Change would come, a USA Today contributor wrote, only...

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