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Scientist. Author. Host of PBS Serving Up Science. Sustainability, Politics & Science Communication at Michigan State.
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America’s shifting baselines are a threat to democracy and governance Original

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By Sheril Kirshenbaum
| The Hill Verified
Opinion>Congress Blog The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill by Sheril Kirshenbaum, opinion contributor - 03/29/26 11:00 AM ET by Sheril Kirshenbaum, opinion contributor - 03/29/26 11:00 AM ET Share LinkedIn Email Getty Images When I mentioned to a young congressional staffer that the process for passing the Big Beautiful Bill would have been unthinkable in 2006, she looked genuinely confused. “This is how policy gets done,” she said.
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Can We Rebuild Trust in Congress?

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By Sheril Kirshenbaum
| Substack
After conducting dozens of interviews with senior staff in Congress from both parties, I recognized that I wasn’t simply studying polarization, but a series of deliberate, specific changes that transformed disagreement between colleagues into battles of good versus evil.
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Opinion - How congressional dysfunction paved the road to political violence

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By Sheril Kirshenbaum
| Yahoo Verified
In 2022, a senior Democratic House staffer I was interviewing paused mid-conversation, her voice heavy with concern. “We are seeing each other based on political affiliation as enemies,” she told me. “And that’s really scary when you can’t just disagree but actually see your political opponent as an enemy who is detrimental to the country, because the only answer to that is to eliminate them.” Her words proved tragically prophetic with the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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