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Ezra Klein on Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein on Why We're Polarized

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Ezra Klein on Why We're Polarized

FromOpen to Debate

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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Jan 31, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Is the American political system broken? In his new book, Ezra Klein argues that the system isn't malfunctioning, it's doing exactly what it was designed to accomplish. In this special episode of Discourse Disrupters, John Donvan sits down with one of the nation's most prominent political journalists to ask one critical question: Why are we polarized?

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Released:
Jan 31, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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