Gov. Spencer Cox said better civics education can help reduce polarization in an interview with former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice at a Stanford University think tank Thursday.

“ The Invention of Immigration Exceptionalism ,” published in November by Adam Cox in the Yale Law Journal, runs 117 pages.

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, a political legend whose quick wit bridged partisan gaps in the years before today’s political acrimony, has died. He was 93.