The Divided States of America: What is Tearing Us Apart?
Fareed Zakaria investigates how the divide between Republicans and Democrats in America has become a national crisis. Why did political hatred in America get so bad?
In the wake of the violent attack upon the U.S. Capitol during the Congressional certification of the 2020 national election, Zakaria and others offer analysis and historical context. They include: three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author Thomas Friedman (The New York Times; Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, 2017); CNN commentator and former Obama Administration official, Van Jones; author and columnist Ezra Klein (The New York Times; Why We're Polarized, 2020); author Jane Mayer (Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, 2017); historian Jon Meacham (The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, 2019); writer and author, George Packer (The Atlantic; The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, 2014); law professor and author, Joan Williams (the University of California, Hastings College of the Law; White Working Class, 2019); and CNN political analyst, professor, and author, Julian Zelizer (professor, Princeton University; Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker and the Rise of the New Republican Party, 2020).
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