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Melissa Gismondi

Melissa Gismondi is a writer and audio producer whose work has appeared in major media outlets, including the New York Times, the Walrus, the Globe and Mail, Literary Review and on the CBC Radio programs IDEAS, The Current and Writers & Company. She holds a PhD in American history and lived in the U.S. for many years.

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    Extremism has always been part of mainstream America: historian

    Leonard Moore has long taught popular courses on American history at McGill University. His retirement lecture is full of insight — and worries — about the deep polarization in the U.S. He argues history has its lessons, but it’s still an open question whether they’ll be learned.
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    IDEAS

    American democracy is at a precipice, experts say. And time is ticking

    Ahead of the U.S. presidential election, there are growing fears that American democracy is headed toward a crisis point. In this 2022 episode, IDEAS contributor Melissa Gismondi unpacks the idea that America as we've known it may be ending, while exploring where the country may be headed, and what — if anything — can save it.
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