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The Personal Cost of a Divided Nation is a 6-part series where we look at how Race is interwoven in the fabric of America and how it manifests in our daily lives. We will hear from academics, business leaders, clergy, and everyday people about the real impact and consequences of deteriorating race relations. What is the personal cost of an UN-United States?

"Trump Rally Skirmish Reveals What a Divided Nation Shares" is from the October 23, 2016 United States section of The New York Times. It was written by Farah Stockman and narrated by Caroline Miller.

Equality is easy to grasp in theory but often hard to achieve in reality. In this accessible and wide-ranging work, American University law professor Robert L. Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren't necessarily about equality at all - ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech - have often been used to overcome resistance to justice and remain vital today.

Through vivid histories drawn from virtually every continent, A World Divided describes how, since the 18th century, nationalists have struggled to establish their own states that grant human rights to some people. At the same time, they have excluded others through forced assimilation, ethnic cleansing, or even genocide. From Greek rebels, American settlers, and Brazilian abolitionists in the 19th century to anticolonial Africans and Zionists in the 20th, nationalists have confronted a crucial question: Who has the "right to have rights?"