Publisher's Synopsis
? According to a first-of-its-kind study from Michigan State University that ranks nations by empathy, the United States falls at No. 7, behind countries ranging from United Arab Emirates to Saudi Arabia and Korea. The study?s authors also previously found that American college students are 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago. ? According to the American Civil Liberties Union (500,000+ members, and 1.2 million Facebook followers), more than 200 bills were introduced nationally in 2016 by Christians seeking to protect their religious freedom, which the ACLU characterizes as discriminating against gay people; the ACLU anticipates even more in 2017 ? According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, in the first seven days after the 2016 presidential election alone, 701 hateful incidents of harassment were reported across the country, 80 of them directed at LGBTQ individuals, 51 against religious minorities. ? In the wake of Hillary Clinton?s defeat?despite winning the popular vote by almost 3 million votes, and collecting more than 61.3 million votes?tens of millions of American progressives are disheartened; this book offers hope to that population.
