Opinion: Depolarizing Congress starts with relationships that lead to trust
Dr. William Doherty’s guest opinion column in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
National News
Coverage of Braver Angels by national print or web news outlets
VIDEO: Critical Race Theory – April Lawson
April Lawson appeared on ABC 6 News to discuss Critical Race Theory.
‘Our nation is worth saving’: In Ohio, politically opposed friends are bridging the divide
Janine Shipley and Ron Hall share 30 years of friendship, a sense of faith, and a desperate urge to understand a deeply polarized country.
Bridging the divide: How you can help heal a polarized Ohio, starting right now
The USA TODAY Network Ohio is partnering with Braver Angels, a nonprofit founded in the wake of the 2016 election to help reunite “red” and “blue” America.
Braver Angels Helps Politically Divided Couples Mend Their Relationships Through Workshops
Braver Angels is a bipartisan nonprofit that aims to create dialogue across political lines, and believes that couples can learn to respectfully disagree.
The election’s clear mandate
David Blankenhorn believes the collapse of partisan goodwill is only a symptom of a collapse of trust in one another – and he wants to fix it.
Applying couples therapy techniques to help heal America’s fractured political relationship (CBS This Morning)
A family therapist has the tools for you and your loved ones to survive the next few weeks
How We Can Reconcile With Each Other When Our Politics Are So Polarized
Sharp political divisions have disconnected us from friends and family. Here’s how to find common ground again.
How to navigate awkward political conversations at Thanksgiving dinner after a tense election
Sharp political divisions have disconnected us from friends and family. Here’s how to find common ground again.
How to Talk Politics Without Wrecking Relationships
A family therapist has the tools for you and your loved ones to survive the next few weeks
The Right Way to Talk across Divides
“Conversational receptiveness” can be learned
JAMS Foundation Recognizes Braver Angels for Bridging Divide of Political Polarization
The JAMS Foundation’s 12th Annual Warren Knight Distinguished Service Award was recently presented to Braver Angels, along with a $25,000 grant.
When red and blue agree to meet – and not change each other’s minds
The Christian Science Monitor // Henry Gass — The week before Thanksgiving, two dozen locals gathered at a church for a workshop organized by Braver Angels Central Texas, a local chapter of a national organization working to depolarize America and promote civil discourse.
Can the American Right and Left Get Back to Civil Debate?
The National Review // George Leef — Some organizations are trying to remind us that we’re better off with civil discourse rather than rancorous name-calling. In today’s Martin Center article, Shannon Watkins writes about that, focusing especially on a group called Braver Angels.
Healing a divided nation begins face to face
Yes! Magazine // Chris Winters — Three weeks after the 2016 presidential election, a group of 21 people came together in South Lebanon, Ohio, outside Cincinnati, to talk. The group comprised 11 people who’d supported Hillary Clinton for president and 10 who’d supported Donald Trump.
Can Marriage Counseling Save America?
The Atlantic // Andrew Ferguson — Borrowing techniques from couples therapy to bring liberals and conservatives back together.
How to Get Trump Voters and Liberals to Talk: Don’t Make Anyone Sit in a Circle
The New York Times // Nellie Bowles — Classes, apps and message boards are trying to bridge the divide between the left and the right, one conversation at a time.
WATCH: Braver Angels Red-Blue Workshop with Van Jones on CNN!
CNN // A red-blue workshop in Evanston, IL welcomed CNN’s Van Jones — and participants from the left and right reflected on the personal impact that Braver Angels programming had for them.
The one question every American can ask themselves about impeachment
The Fulcrum // What’s going on here? Do Republicans and Democrats have vastly divergent conceptions of what constitutes proper and improper presidential conduct? Do they have different recollections of the behavior of past presidents?
How to bring divided Americans together and save our democracy
AlterNet // On a roadside billboard in North Carolina promoting the Cherokee Guns store, beneath the words “The 4 Horsemen Cometh are Idiots” appear American citizens and congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib, collectively known as “the squad,” whom Trump told to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
Civil Conversation, Your Time Has Come
The American Conservative // The Prayer Breakfast is symbolic of various national and local efforts to promote bipartisan respect, civility, and understanding. You wouldn’t know it from watching the news, but there is a growing movement of civility-centered groups, organizations, websites, and social circles sprouting up on every corner.
This Group Got Black Lives Matter And Tea Party Leaders To Talk. Can The Rest Of Us?
The Federalist // ‘I don’t know at what point we moved from disagreeing with the argument to hating the person, and that scared me. I decided I have to do something,’ says this Braver Angels delegate.
Braver Angels: Bridging the Uncivil Discussion Divide
RealClearPolitics // During a time of deep political polarization, not everyone could get a representative from Black Lives Matter and the Tea Party in the same room. But an organization known as Braver Angels can do it – and will – at its second bipartisan national convention later this week.
Don’t get divorced because of Trump. The tough work of settling America’s political differences
USA Today // In the Trump age, political polarization in the United States has never been higher. Groups like Braver Angels are promoting civility to lower angst.
Bringing together both sides of the political spectrum
Chillecothe Gazette // The Braver Angels Workshop has participants examining stereotypes: the ones they have about the other side of the political spectrum and also the ones that the other side might have about them.
Today’s leaders should ask themselves: What would Lincoln do?
Los Angeles Times // Amid conflict, Lincoln sought conciliation. Amid anger, he advocated “charity for all.” Amid despair, he summoned “the braver angels of our nature.”
How To Improve The State Of Our Viciously Polarized Union
The Federalist // ‘We’ve reached that point where we view people on the other side of the political divide not only as misguided, but as threats.’
State of the Union 2019: We’re so divided we see others who don’t agree with us as bad — Here’s our solution
Fox News // America is built on the pursuit of a more perfect Union, but today we are yet again on the brink of a civic fissure so deep it threatens our democracy.
MSNBC Reports on Braver Angels
MSNBC // Chris Jansing of Voice of the People reports on a Braver Angels Workshop in North Carolina.
The Bipartisan Group That’s Not Afraid of Partisanship
Atlantic Magazine // One Saturday morning this past fall, a handful of progressive voters were seated in a neat circle, pondering why more people don’t agree with their preferred policy solutions for the country.
