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In her new book, "How Civil Wars Start," Barbara F. Walter writes that the US exhibits the key warning signs that precede armed conflict.

Violent protesters, loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington AP Photo/John Minchillo, File Barbara

A president who promised to unite the country is even unable to bring his own party together.

Is America headed for a civil war? Barbara Walter says many of the ingredients-weak institutions, once dominant group resentment, violent extremism - are all present..

Barbara F. Walter, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, has interviewed many people who've lived through civil wars, and she told me they all say they didn't see it coming. "They're all surprised," she said. "Even when, to somebody who studies it, it's obvious years beforehand."

To live in interesting times, is it a blessing or a curse?

The political scientist Barbara F. Walter studies political violence, and says America is nearing the danger zone. Plus, Nnedi Okorafor on writing fantasy through an African lens.

That speculation about civil war has moved from the crankish fringes into the mainstream...

The notion cant be dismissed, although theres reason to doubt.

It’s hard to imagine. But so is democracy’s salvation.