America is hyper-polarized but a new kind of Fulbright could help save us
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The Fulbright Program was designed to "support friendly and peaceful relations between the people of the United States and the people of other countries." We need a U.S. version now.
David N. Bernstein, MD, MBA, MEI is a resident physician at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Boston Children’s Hospital and a senior researcher in health care transformation at Harvard Business School. Follow him at @DNBernsteinMD.
In 1946, U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas helped pass legislation in Congress to create a program "to increase mutual understanding and support friendly and peaceful relations between the people of the United States and the people of other countries."
The Fulbright Program, as it is now known, has since become the U.S. government’s flagship international academic exchange program, and a rare initiative that commonly receives strong bipartisan support.
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