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Where Is Your Mind?

A group of people can quite easily unite to make a decision where everyone suffers, if they misunderstand what the others are thinking.

S THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DRAWS CLOSER, A LOT of people are struggling to make up their minds—about what is in other people’s minds. The last election was a disorienting experience that made Americans second-guess the way they thought things worked in politics, and the intervening years have been disorienting too.

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