By host Tom Ashbrook:

Imagine coming of age as a young American in the country’s booming era of poisonous, hyper-polarized politics. The trip from high-minded civics class to acid political reality is short and brutal. Some embrace it, jumping straight in as shock troops of the right or left — dukes-up college Republicans or angry left bloggers.

But another stripe of young voters is looking out on the charred political battlefield of hyper-polarization and concluding that there has to be a better way, a way beyond partisanship. Hardcore culture warriors and veterans of the political trenches may call them naive, but they’re insisting that a middle-way may be the only real way forward.

Hear a conversation with young college grads aiming beyond partisanship in a super-partisan American.

Guests:

Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post reporter and author of “Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the House of Representatives”

Nate Byer, Adam Gomolin, and Rob Weinstock, directors of BeyondPartisan.org

Duncan Black, who writes the Democratic blog Eshaton.