National Public Radio: No one who's been paying attention for, say, the last few decades, needs to be reminded of how extremely polarized Washington is.
So it's usually good news when Democrats and Republicans can come together on an issue, as they did recently to support the idea of creating the new honorary position of "Science Laureate of the United States."
We have had poet laureates and they seem to have worked out well to promote poetry to the masses, haven't they (though I bet you can't name the current one....