For an alternate viewpoint, see “Counterpoint: We Need to Cool Our Political Tempers — and We Can.” Politicians and policy experts like to talk about “root causes”: of crime, homelessness, poverty, rising prices and other problems. If they want to understand the root cause of political polarization, they might want to consider the whole picture […]
Author Archives: Pierre Lemieux
Pierre Lemieux is a research fellow at the Independent Institute and an economist with the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Quebec in Canada. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.