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Common Ground with Jane Whitney
Culture War: America’s Blood Sport
Season 3
Episode 305
The poisonous cocktail of social polarization is ripping apart the shared American identity that made the country a ‘melting pot’. A diverse panel discusses how usurping racial, religious, sexual, and cultural identities for partisan gain pours salt into our national wounds, provokes violence, and threatens our democracy.
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