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**A Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, Literary Hub, and BookPage“Difficult, brilliant, intensely personal and dazzlingly illuminating…hands down the most gripping thing I’ve read this year.” —Elizabeth Lowry, Times Literary SupplementA nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century.**Sylvia ... Read more

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**A Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, Literary Hub, and BookPage“Difficult, brilliant, intensely personal and dazzlingly illuminating…hands down the most gripping thing I’ve read this year.” —Elizabeth Lowry, Times Literary SupplementA nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century.**Sylvia
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Hearts Divided

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Hearts Divided examines the growing centrality of political beliefs and identities in personal life. Focusing on cross-cutting romantic relationships-partnerships in which individuals hold opposing political views-the book explores how political difference reshapes both personal relationships and democratic engagement. Set against the tumultuous period from 2020 to 2024---marked by two ... Read more

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Hearts Divided examines the growing centrality of political beliefs and identities in personal life. Focusing on cross-cutting romantic relationships-partnerships in which individuals hold opposing political views-the book explores how political difference reshapes both personal relationships and democratic engagement. Set against the tumultuous period from 2020 to 2024---marked by two
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Democracy Lives in Darkness

How and Why People Keep Their Politics a Secret

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Republicans and Democrats increasingly distrust, avoid, and wish harm upon those from the opposing party. They also increasingly reside among like-minded individuals and belong to social groups that share their political beliefs. While these factors can make it difficult to express a dissenting political opinion, digital and social media have given people new spaces for political discourse and ... Read more

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Republicans and Democrats increasingly distrust, avoid, and wish harm upon those from the opposing party. They also increasingly reside among like-minded individuals and belong to social groups that share their political beliefs. While these factors can make it difficult to express a dissenting political opinion, digital and social media have given people new spaces for political discourse and
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Democracy Lives in Darkness

How and Why People Keep Their Politics a Secret

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In Democracy Lives in Darkness, Emily Van Duyn discovers and follows a secret political organization of progressive women in a conservative community in rural Texas. Its members met in secret to protect themselves from retaliation by their conservative neighbors, friends, and family. They discussed immigrant rights, women's reproductive rights, racism, and intolerance of those of different racial ... Read more

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In Democracy Lives in Darkness, Emily Van Duyn discovers and follows a secret political organization of progressive women in a conservative community in rural Texas. Its members met in secret to protect themselves from retaliation by their conservative neighbors, friends, and family. They discussed immigrant rights, women's reproductive rights, racism, and intolerance of those of different racial
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Why debunked political rumors persist and how to combat themPolitical rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumors about a stolen election and vote-rigging, there were other rumors that continued to spread even after they were thoroughly debunked, including doubts about 9/11 (an “inside job”) and the
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Why We're Polarized

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One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us—and how we are polarizing it—with disastrous ... Read more

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Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, considers the hot-button issue of education in the US, exposing the weaknesses of the Common Core school curriculum and examining why liberal solutions fail.Public education is never mentioned in the constitution. Why? Because our founders knew that it was an issue for state and local governments—not the federal one.It’s not a ... Read more

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Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, considers the hot-button issue of education in the US, exposing the weaknesses of the Common Core school curriculum and examining why liberal solutions fail.Public education is never mentioned in the constitution. Why? Because our founders knew that it was an issue for state and local governments—not the federal one.It’s not a
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