Politics

Uh-oh: You’ve Caught a Case of Xenophobia

Pandemic

Fear is a powerful social contagion from which no one is entirely immune. And it spreads rapidly when authority figures exhibit its symptoms.

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We’ve been exposed to a contagion.

It’s manifesting in rampant anti-immigrant sentiment around the globe, and no border wall is going to contain it or stop its spread.This

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