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  "path": "/article/is-the-u-s-in-a-new-era-of-political-violence-experts-say-its-complicated/",
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  "textContent": "Researchers who study political violence say that the U.S. is in a period of more intense political rhetoric, but there have been far darker periods in the nation’s history",
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