I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. I am, however, an American – a status I spent 12 years of my life and tens of thousands of dollars pursuing. In recognition of that legally and emotionally brutal journey to citizenship, a dear friend gifted me one of the flags that flew above the Capitol on the day I became an American. It arrived with a certificate that had been signed by one of the people’s representatives who then worked in the building it flew over. That flag i

Quietly in the background of my life over the last year and a half or so, I've been working with volunteers to whom I am profoundly grateful, on what I hope will become the most important thing I've done to date. As you probably know if you're reading this, I'm interested in using political psychology to bring together people across ideological differences. America is more divided than it has been in living memory and our politics has become not even zero-sum: it has become n