Ideas and resources for Americans interested in reducing political contempt and toxic division. By Zachary Elwood, author of "Defusing American Anger" and "How Contempt Destroys Democracy," and host of the psych podcast People Who Read People.
I'm the author of Defusing American Anger. I've been thinking about and talking about political polarization for the last few years, often on my psychology-focused podcast People Who Read People.
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