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Budget and debt debates, filibusters over judicial nominees, and partisan posturing in Washington occur amid growing concerns about heated political rhetoric across America. Brookings experts have tracked and examined how growing political polarization has become embedded in American society with results that are damaging to the political process.
May 21, 2012, Pietro S. Nivola
May 18, 2012, Thomas E. Mann
May 18, 2012, William A. Galston
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Opinion | The Washington Post
May 17, 2012, Thomas E. Mann and Norm Ornstein
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May 9, 2012
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May 4, 2012, Thomas E. Mann
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April 27, 2012, Thomas E. Mann and Norm Ornstein
Opinion | The New Republic
April 19, 2012, William A. Galston
Report | The Brookings Doha Center
April 19, 2012
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The reality is that any talk about finding a bipartisan consensus is utterly foolish and a waste of time… [But to] the extent these kinds of largely symbolic fights really clarify the profoundly different sort of values, beliefs and approaches to policy between the two parties, then they’ve done something constructive. April 17, 2012 , Thomas E. Mann, The Fiscal Times
The reality is that any talk about finding a bipartisan consensus is utterly foolish and a waste of time… [But to] the extent these kinds of largely symbolic fights really clarify the profoundly different sort of values, beliefs and approaches to policy between the two parties, then they’ve done something constructive.
Interview | BBC
April 8, 2012, Omar Ashour
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March 28, 2012, Isabel V. Sawhill | comments
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