Gabriel, Peri Poloni

Armed with a BS in journalism from the University of Illinois and an MBA, with honors, from the University of Chicago, Mike Bushman spent 25 years learning the interwoven worlds of national and global government, business and the media. He retired in 2012 as the top policy and communications executive for a global sustainability services company to write about the future ahead if partisanship continues to drive division in the United States and abroad.