Common Ground with Jane Whitney Presents “Can This Marriage Be Saved? Avoiding National Divorce”

The idea of an America stretching “from sea to shining sea” is such a basic part of the national identity that it’s the foundational line of our unofficial national anthem, “America The Beautiful.” But now the rift between blue and red, urban and rural, coastal and heartland, Whole Foods and Cracker Barrel has grown so vast and bitter that some question if, like an acrimonious marriage, it’s time to divorce. For others, this idea borders on heresy—a notion as explosive as declaring civil war.

In this episode, “Common Ground” examines the fraying bonds of our union and explores whether they can still be mended. This panel is headlined by Walter Isaacson, 2023 National Humanities Award winner, best selling biographer and former CEO of The Aspen Institute, Erwin Chemerinsky, an expert on authoritarianism and the author of No Democracy Lasts Forever, Melody Barnes, the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Obama and founding executive director of the University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute of Democracy, Robert Doar, President of the American Enterprise Institute and leading expert in both federal and state antipoverty policies and safety net programs, and Paola Ramos, a journalist and author of Defectors: The Rise of The Latino Far Right.

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