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Topic: empathy gap

In a scene from "Hadestown," actors Eva Noblezada and Reeve Carney demonstrate the capacity to hold another’s reality without collapsing it into their own. (Walter McBride/Getty Images)

Performing arts and the empathy crisis

Stephen Brown-Fried, Pablo Helguera
Mexican laborers cut broccoli stalks for Smith Farms' crew A as the harvest season gets underway at a Smith Farm's field near Fort Fairfield in central Aroostook County. Smith Farm's employ over 150 migrant workers to help in their harvest of both broccoli and potatos. (John Ewing/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

Fixing our country's empathy problem

Ashlie D. Stevens
A woman reacts as Family members, colleagues and friends of the victims of Tuesday blasts gather for a memorial ceremony at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Thursday, June 30, 2016. (AP/Emrah Gurel)

Istanbul and the empathy gap

Jalal Baig

GOPers lack "empathy gene"

Brendan Gauthier