The United States is facing serious challenges. One of the most imposing comes from our deep political divisions. Doug Schoen and Carly Cooperman’s America: Unite or Die: How to Save Our Democracy (Regan Arts, 2021) addresses how America should go beyond the division and find real solutions to problems including the Covid-19 pandemic, the aftermath of the January 6 and Black Lives Matter riots, rising crime rates, rampant public misinformation, and extreme politics – and politicians – on both sides.
We’ve been through worse. American democracy survived a Civil War, two World Wars, and a nearly half-century Cold War with Communism, after all. But Schoen and Cooperman warn that the nation’s resilience is being severely tested by factors ranging from an out-of-touch political class and rising income inequality to the influence of social media and digital news and a loss of trust in institutions.
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