"In 2018, photographs of children in chain-link enclosures produced a genuine moment of national recoil. Many Americans believed they were watching an aberration, a policy excess that would be corrected," writes James Lomastro. But "the danger was never only in the specific policy. It was in the lesson the policy was teaching the country about what it could tolerate."
When we listen to each other across lines of disagreement and difference, when we take time to “waste time” on activities that do not contribute to problem-solving or economic production of value, we discover the deepest learning of all, writes Robert Bordone. It's the learning that helps build a civilization of love, not power.
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