Balz: Bad News Is Polarization Not Going Anywhere

by Michael Sean Winters

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October 7, 2013

Dan Balz is one of the most thoughtful commentators on DC politics and he had an important, but depressing, essay in yesterday's Washington Post pointing to the sources of polarization in American politics and why they are here to stay. Well worth the read.

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