Political Dialogue in Polarized Times

Harvard HLS

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam According to the US Elections Project, in November 2020 Americans cast their votes for President at the highest rate of participation in 120 years. The number of votes cast for the two principal candidates were the highest and second highest in US electoral history. The 2024 presidential election saw nearly comparably turnout of the voting-eligible population. Participation in the democratic process is thriving. And yet . . . commentators,…