Trust in American institutions has reached record lows, leaving Americans in search of shared values, community and ways to understand where they fit in. At the same time, identity markers have gained more prominence. Where do these changes leave us? Are we creating more opportunities to understand each other, or are we becoming more fractured? As part of the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, Post Reports discusses the impact of identity politics on our cultural connections.
Megan McArdle, Shadi Hamid, Elahe Izadi and Martine Powers explore the role of identity in a tense era, with an undercurrent of identity politics running beneath a pivotal election season, escalation of conflicts in the
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