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Following the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, Americans across the country have donated millions of dollars online to support his family. Fundraising campaigns on the ...

I ran across something the other day in a garden-variety doomscroll: Academics talking about how a lot of the anxiety about polarization comes from the misunderstanding that we are reacting to the ...