Barbara F. Walter | TED, Aug 15, 2023
Based on her work for a CIA task force aimed at predicting civil wars, political scientist Barbara F. Walter examines the rise in extremism and threats to democracies around the globe — and paints an unsettling picture of the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States.
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