In recent months a growing chorus of commentators has begun to dismantle the notion that the current polarization of American politics is equally the fault of “both sides.” Most notably, two old Washington hands and collaborators, the Brookings Institution’s Thomas Mann and the American Enterprise Institute’s Norman Ornstein, have directly blamed the Republican Party’s ideological extremism for our predicament. And they exhort journalists to stop splitting the difference between the two parties and to start telling the truth about which one is really driving the polarization and refusing to compromise. About the Author Chris Mooney, host of the Point of Inquiry podcast, is the author of The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny... Also by the Author Intelligent science reporting has been gutted--just ... Continue reading →