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America, Meet America: Getting Past Our Toxic Partisanship

Bringing back U.S. exchange programs could help remind citizens what we all have in common

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Amanda Ripley

June 30, 2017 11:33 a.m. ET

We Americans have a new enemy, and it is ourselves. Half of Democrats and Republicans now see members of the opposing party as not just ill-informed but actually frightening, according to the Pew Research Center. In experiments with thousands of Americans, researchers have found that partisan animosity can now exceed racial hostility: When awarding hypothetical scholarships and cash, we are more likely to discriminate based on politics than race. As of 2010, a third of Democrats and half of Republicans said that they...

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