It's time for a new American agenda

America is once again gripped by multiple political and societal crises. Most days in our local communities and in our wider public lives it can feel like we're living through dizzying confusion, chaos, and division.

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Acrimonious partisanship only deepens in Washington, DC, and our state capitols. Renewed calls for a third party are heating up, while Democrats plan to spend tens of millions of dollars to understand voters better, as if they had just discovered some new civilisation. It’s like we're collectively stuck in the Tower of Babel, unable to understand one another and what we share in common, according to the Tribune News Service.