“Breaking the Deadlock” shows us what civil discourse could look like

Image: Three of the panelists in BREAKING the DEADLOCK: Truth Under Fire: Eddie Glaude, Tina Descovich and Soledad O’Brien. Image credit: Still from BREAKING the DEADLOCK: Truth Under Fire via PBS.org. Commentary article by Melanie McFarland. Salon – October 22, 2025.

Eddie Glaude Jr. slumps a bit as he rubs his forehead, the universal sign of being overwhelmed by the flood of partisan nonsense Aaron Tang fictionalizes in “Breaking the Deadlock: Truth Under Fire.” In the real world, Tang teaches law at the University of California, Davis, while Glaude is a professor of African American Studies at Princeton. But in this program, Tang serves as both moderator and storyteller, spinning a theoretical scenario that casts Glaude as a high school civics teacher in Libertyville, Middlevania. […]

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