In the 800 columns he’s penned for USA Today, Walter Shapiro has covered everyone from Bill Clinton to George Bush; he’s followed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and written about everything from high school to his own father. But as Shapiro wrote in his final Hype and Glory column last week, life is changing, and the role of the columnist is changing too. Or perhaps the columnists as we knew them are disappearing. Shapiro says the more the nation divides by red and blue, the greater the appetite for rage and outrage, and the case for middle ground disappears.
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Walter Shapiro, USA Today columnist.