GPS Special: When did we start feeling disconnected?

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Aug 26
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In this GPS special, Part 1, Disconnected: Life in a Disruptive Digital Age, Fareed sits down with the political scientist Robert Putnam, author of the bestseller "Bowling Alone," and the social psychologist Jean Twenge, to talk about the past and the present of social isolation.

Part 2, addressing social isolation

Part 3, what's driving men and women apart?

Part 4, how technology is rewiring childhood

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