Callie Hanson

1 month ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Michelle Nijhuis |Callie Hanson

If you’re like many Americans these days, you don’t simply disagree with your political opponents. You distrust, dislike or even fear them. This “affective polarization,” as social scientists call it, has been on the rise in the United States since the 1980s, and it’s notoriously difficult to reverse. It can be treated, though. We’ve seen it done. In the rural West, few issues are more polarizing than the recovery of wolves.