Civic Life

When Political Opponents Get to Know Each Other

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The Greater Good Science Center

October 6, 2020

IFYC is pleased to be partnering with Greater Good Science Center. This article was originally posted on Greater Good Magazine and reproduced here with their permission.

What we share is more powerful than what divides us. Watch what happens when two people from completely opposite ends of their ideological spectrums come together to learn what they have in common.

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