Why We're Polarized

By Ezra Klein

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences

Journalist Ezra Klein argues that America's political system isn't broken. The scarier truth is that it's working as designed: rational actors respond to the incentives they face, and their efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole. Klein shows how, over the past fifty years, Americans' partisan identities have merged with their racial, religious, geographic, and cultural ones, and how polarized voters and polarized institutions feed each other in a loop that pushes the system toward crisis.

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