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Listening past the din
Clayton Collins
American politics loves binary thinking: We鈥檙e on one team, on one side of an issue or the other.聽
Monitor writers recognize how limited (and limiting) that thinking is. And none is better at exploring what lies between extremes 鈥� and how thought there can evolve 鈥� than Harry Bruinius.聽
Harry鈥檚 smart, but that鈥檚 not the sole source of his power. It鈥檚 also this:
鈥淓very time I approach someone who鈥檚 sharing their story ... to really share who they are, what their experiences are, how they鈥檝e changed because of certain experiences,鈥� he says, 鈥淚 want to listen.鈥澛�
Today, Harry describes his ongoing reporting聽about a group that鈥檚 often painted as one block. It鈥檚 actually one in which outlooks vary, and sometimes change.
