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The intensifying economic and environmental pressures of the warming climate are now beginning to drive new wedges into old divisions.

If he said to me, “We want to change the tornado to something a bit more like a wedge shape,” the artists understood how to make that change.

They point to how the Trump campaign was also able to use a cultural message as a wedge to fracture the Democratic coalition.

Today, financial literacy often functions as yet another wedge separating haves and have-nots, only worsening retirement prospects for the worst off Americans.

Marilyn Chinitz, a partner in matrimonial and family law at Blank Rome in New York, said that filing for divorce on fault-based grounds is unnecessary, costly and drives an extra wedge between parties.