Navigating the social terrain during the holiday season can bring a lot of joy as well as some challenges and fresh off election day earlier this month not talking politics could be hard to avoid.

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(Radio Iowa) – The advice has always been to avoid discussions of politics and religion at the dinner table. University of Iowa professor Michelle Williams says that may be easier said than done this Thanksgiving. “If you think about everything that’s going on in the world today, it’s hard for some of these topics not to come up, even if you’re just talking about the price of eggs, right, that can turn into a political discussion,” she says. Wil…

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