With shouting on both the Left and the Right, America's politics has never been more divided or more passionate. How did we get to our current state of poisoned gridlock, and how do we get out of it? A wide range of political and cultural figures including Senator Evan Bayh, Senator Chuck Hagel, Grover Norquist, Ezra Klein, Thomas Frank and Noam Chomsky attempt to address the social, cultural, economic and political implications of a country that seems to be splitting in two.