The first piece I wrote for The Eye was a series of profiles on the leaders of Columbia University College Republicans, Columbia University Democrats, Columbia/Barnard International Socialist Organization, and Columbia University Libertarians. Written in the months following the 2016 presidential election, the piece highlighted the growing political stratification that caused Donald Trump’s election and the way in which that stratification seemed to grow dramatically worse after the political shift—particularly amongst Columbia’s student groups. Yet while these leaders’ opinions on policy were different, they shared many core values—values that revealed a sense of common humanity across the political divides. ..