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Joe Biden’s campaign launched its first propaganda video of 2024. In it, Biden calls millions of Americans “extremists” with images of Trump supporters made to look bad. In the video, Biden arrogantly says: “There is an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy.” Biden is referring to patriotic Americans who love this country and support Trump. Biden’s video showed images from the January 6 Capitol protest and the Charlottesville march.

A new University of Chicago poll found that over a quarter of a deeply alienated American public, particularly those who identify as Republican, believe that it may “soon be necessary to take up arms” against the government, The poll, a collaboration between Republican and Democratic pollsters Neil Newhouse and Joel Benenson, respectively, surveyed 1,000 registered voters around the U.S.. A slight majority of those, 56%, said they believed the government was corrupt and “rigged against everyday people like me,” with self-identified Republicans polling substantially higher on that question than Democrats. In total, 28% of voters agreed with the statement “it...

For the past week, we have all watched the events of Ferguson, Missouri unfold with a mixture of anger, frustration, perverse fascination and above all sadness. Regardless of how one feels about the case and the events that led to the shooting of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson, we are all left with the sobering reality that America is a house divided against itself. It's a division we have all felt for some time, but in the grand modern American tradition of denial, justification and enabling, we chose to push it toward the back of our collective psyche, hoping...

Red states and blue states? Flyover country and the coasts? How simplistic. Colin Woodard, a reporter at the Portland Press Herald and author of several books, says North America can be broken neatly into 11 separate nation-states, where dominant cultures explain our voting behaviors and attitudes toward everything from social issues to the role of government. “The borders of my eleven American nations are reflected in many different types of maps — including maps showing the distribution of linguistic dialects, the spread of cultural artifacts, the prevalence of different religious denominations, and the county-by-county breakdown of voting in virtually every...