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​Protestors shout at counterprotesters at the Women’s March at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., USA, on November 2, 2024.
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Q+A: No, America is not as polarized as you think.

Morris Fiorina, a political scientist at Stanford University, tells GZERO that political parties – rather than people – have become more homogeneous and polarized in their positions.

​LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 07: A wind-driven fire burns on January 7, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Santa Ana wind is fueling wildfires in Los Angeles that have destroyed homes and forced the evacuation of thousands of people.
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Politics inflamed amid California wildfires

As California’s most destructive wildfires continue to blaze across Los Angeles County, having killed 16 and displaced more than 166,000 residents, emergency response efforts have become politicized, both at home and abroad.

Illustration, a detail from a cover of Puck magazine in 1909, shows several congressmen engaged in a brawl on the floor of the House of Representatives.
Analysis

The end of polarization in America?

How does this all end? Does it? It’s a question a lot of Americans have been asking themselves in the week since an assassin’s bullet missed Donald Trump’s skull by less than a quarter of an inch.