This book explores the polarization of American politics through the collapse of the space between politics and culture, as bolstered by omnipresent media. It seeks to explain this perfect storm of money, technology, and partisanship that has created two entirely separate news spheres: a small, enclosed circle for the right wing and a sprawling expanse for everyone else. This leads to two sets of facts, two narratives, and two loudly divergent political sides with extraordinary anger all around. Based on extensive interviews with leading media figures and politicos, this book traces the development of the media machine, giving suggestions on how to restore our national dialogue while defending our right to disagree agreeably. It includes interviews with prominent journalists, politicos and communication scholars from organizations like The Washington Post, CNN, Daily Beast, Salon, Brookings Institute, and Cato; and explains how alternative facts have become our political reality. Accessible for general interest readers as well as academics in both politics and media studies.