In a recent book, Why Are We Polarised? the American journalist Ezra Klein explored the depth of political polarisation that afflicts the United States.
His insights are unsettling as he contends that partisan identity has started to dominate all other identities, even ethnicity.
If you are a Democrat you shop differently, you live in different neighbourhoods and you do other sports than you would do as a R...
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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.