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    How to make change

    Mar 27, 2020 5 minutes
    By Van Jones

    IT IS ALMOST A TRUISM THAT AMERICA IS MORE DIVIDED THAN EVER. In fact, it feels like our lack of consensus is the only thing there is a consensus about.

    But go ask someone who just got an early release from federal prison about this idea of division. Go ask a coal miner, whose health care and pension the government recently saved. Talk to families facing America’s addiction crisis, as policies begin to shift to honor their struggle. Quietly, below the radar, a new kind of bipartisanship is emerging. It tells a different story about who we are as a country—and who we could become.

    Bipartisanship today is different from the top-down bipartisanship of the 1990s and early 2000s, which gave the term a bad odor. That old approach—led by elite political

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