More Divided Than Ever: Excavating the Roots Of Our Political Landscape
American politics can be nasty. Does that mean that it's broken?
by Shankar Vedantam
Oct 18, 2018
1 minute
The nastiness of American politics today may seem extreme compared to the tone of earlier eras. But historian David Moss says our nation's founders were also happy to sling mud. Thomas Jefferson's Adams called Alexander Hamilton that Beyond the obnoxious language, there were also deep disagreements about what it meant to be a nation.
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