Opening with a reference to Tolstoy’s immortal opening to Anna Karenina, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” this piece
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Useful research has shown that connections forged among different groups of people—what social scientists call “bridging social capital”—reliably enhance peace, prosperity, an
