This week on "Sunday Morning": "A Nation Divided?" (October 16)

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"Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel. 

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"Sunday Morning: A Nation Divided?"

Twenty-one years in the past, within the wake of the 9/11 assaults, could have been the final time that the USA was overtly – even defiantly – united, in ache and patriotism. Since then, we now have drifted aside, gone to our separate corners, hunkered down in our respective silos. On this particular version of "Sunday Morning" hosted by senior contributor Ted Koppel, we take a look at us – the issues which can be maintaining us aside, and the numerous methods we will nonetheless come collectively.

Sunday, October 16 on CBS, and streaming on cbsnews.com and Paramount+.


COVER STORY: Over the road – Why some Oregonians need to grow to be a part of Idaho
In a state dominated by progressive politics, some residents in rural Oregon east of the Cascade Mountains need to transfer the border in order that their counties grow to be a part of Idaho, a extra conservative state that extra carefully aligns with their values. Correspondent Lee Cowan talks with advocates of the Higher Idaho motion about why they consider this concept will not be so far-fetched.

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SOCIAL MEDIA: How on-line conduct turns individuals from Jekyls into Hydes
On-line anonymity has made it straightforward, and depressingly widespread, to be nasty with out concern of repercussions – a scarcity of restraint that psychologists name on-line disinhibition impact, or ODE. Correspondent David Pogue talks with consultants who talk about why exchanges on the Web can devolve into hateful, spiteful rages and name-calling that may by no means be acceptable when speaking face-to-face.

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HISTORY: Historical past classes – When America's politics flip ugly, violent
Historian Jon Grinspan, a curator on the Smithsonian Establishment, has studied how intense partisanship within the nineteenth century was pushed by individuals feeling remoted, their lives unstable, feeding an aggressive, even violent political discourse. He talks with CBS Information' John Dickerson about his new e-book, "The Age of Acrimony: How Individuals Fought to Repair Their Democracy, 1865-1915," and the way our nation's ugly developments in politics have returned, from partisan information to the white supremacists' march in Charlottesville and the January 6 revolt.

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U.S.: Looking for widespread floor – Youthful and older generations converse
"Sunday Morning" contributor Kelefa Sanneh visits Bethlehem, Pa., and sits down with 4 individuals over the age of 60, and 4 underneath 40, to seek out out what variations and similarities they see throughout generations.

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ACTIVISM: Musician-social activist John Legend on the persevering with battle for justice
The award-winning singer-songwriter is an advocate for jail reform in America, a nation that has incarcerated extra of its residents than every other. John Legend talks with "Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel about our penal system, racial inequality, and preventing for a stronger democracy.

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REAL ESTATE: Wyoming's new land rush
Teton County in Wyoming is dwelling to the widest revenue divide in America, with a median home value of greater than $3.5 million and a median revenue of $312,000. Correspondent Ben Tracy seems at how the rich, drawn to the state's picture-perfect settings, have been squeezing out the center class – the very individuals wanted to maintain the group operating.

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COMMUNICATIONS: Discuss radio – Widening the airwaves' nice divide
The repeal of the FCC's Equity Doctrine in 1987 opened the floodgates for excessive partisanship on the airwaves, making industrial speak radio a panorama ripe for controversial opinions aimed toward attracting listeners. Correspondent Jim Axelrod seems at how more and more radical speak radio has unquestionably divided Individuals and hardened our politics.

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COMMENTARY: David Sedaris on popping out, yet again
The humorist has some ideas concerning the time period "queer" and the way individuals immediately (or maybe simply humanities professors) determine themselves.

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TELEVISION: Norman Lear on the ability of laughter to unite Individuals
TV legend Norman Lear, whose credit embrace such hit sequence as "All within the Household" and "Maude," all the time managed to make audiences snigger about harmful matters: Racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia. And immediately, at age 100, he is decided to seek out out if we'll nonetheless snigger collectively. He sits down with "Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel to debate his upcoming tasks, together with a potential remake of some of the controversial sitcom episodes of all time.

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BUSINESS: Commerce secrets and techniques
Not everyone seems to be eager about a white collar job or school diploma (or in racking up scholar mortgage debt). "Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel meets women and men who've chosen plumbing as a occupation, who speak about their work and the way it's perceived by others.

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U.S.: Braver Angels – Looking for to de-polarize America
In an effort to assist bridge the nation's political chasm, the non-profit Braver Angels makes use of a workshop strategy analogous to a wedding counselor, to deliver collectively crimson and blue. Correspondent Martha Teichner visits Traverse Metropolis in Michigan, a battleground state, the place individuals work to recover from their concern of the opposite facet, to seek out widespread floor – and even friendship.

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COMMENTARY: Do you get incessant messages from politicians asking for cash? Jim Gaffigan does, too
The comic says he is being obsessively stalked by the Democratic and Republican Events, who've one factor in thoughts. 

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NATURE: San Juan Nationwide Forest
      


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FROM THE ARCHIVE: Angela Lansbury, "liberated" by Broadway (Video)
Hollywood and Broadway star Angela Lansbury, who earned 5 Tony Awards and three Oscar nominations, and who scored 12 Emmy nominations for her function as thriller author-sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the TV sequence "Homicide, She Wrote," died on October 11, 2022 on the age of 96. On this interview that aired on "Sunday Morning" December 6, 2009, Lansbury talked with CBS Information' Katie Couric about her unparalleled profession on stage and display.

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Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as New York Instances reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor in "She Stated."

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MOVIES: 2022 New York Movie Competition highlights: "She Stated," a journalistic takedown of Harvey Weinstein
Director Maria Schrader's procedural, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan, is likely one of the notable premieres at this 12 months's competition.

"HERE COMES THE SUN": Comic Billy Eichner and the boll weevil (Video)
Comic and actor Billy Eichner sits down with Jonathan Vigliotti to debate his new movie, "Bros." Then Conor Knighton travels to Enterprise, Alabama, to study concerning the boll weevil. 


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