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The Eagle // New student group holds open debates on policy issues

WCCO Middays // Professor Bill Doherty from the U of M joins Roshini Rajkumar in studio for two segments to discuss how we can regain our civility when it comes to politics and our daily discourse with each other.

The Local Live # 233 // In our Round Table, Maura Carlin speaks with Ken Freeman and Sara Silver, volunteer organizers for Braver Angels, an organization that brings people together not to change their views, but to listen and to respect opposing points of view.

PrincetonInfo // What do you say, what do you do, a week from today if you wake up in the morning and discover that Trump still controls the Senate and the House of Representatives?

San Francisco Magazine // Braver Angels is doing the saintly work of getting liberals and conservatives in the same room—and teaching them to play nice.

My Faith Radio // Dr. David Stevens discusses physician-assisted death, the cost of healthcare, and crowdfunding. Then, John Wood, Jr. and Rob Robertson talk about Braver Angels and their work to create productive and humane conversations.

Greenfield Recorder // Although officially described as a workshop, a gathering of “blues” and “reds” on Saturday was also something of a retreat.

TimesUnion // During their pre-Halloween weekend, about a dozen area residents will do something that sounds genuinely scary: spend seven hours talking face to face with others who hold opposing political views.

Tredyffrin Patch // The Conestoga Young Democrats and Young Republicans sponsored an event aimed at reducing political polarization among the left and right.

Inside East Sacramento // Local alliance is determined to depolarize politics.

WBTV // Democrats and Republicans came together to talk through tough issues for an afternoon in Charlotte.

StarTribune // But there’s a way out. It entails building relationships — for real, not for the sake of saying so.

My Faith Radio // It seems that even a name holds enough division to set our pulses racing. A new movement is trying to bring people back together.

Loudoun Now // Mel Pine and William “Butch” Porter have become friends and meet regularly for coffee and conversation, thanks in part to the Braver Angels organization, which seeks to reduce polarization by bringing folks together from across the aisle.

Falls Church News Press // Braver Angels is committed to bringing people with different political views together to better understand each other, to look for areas of commonality and to build alliances to strengthen our communities.

Carroll County Times // There is little question that, politically, our country may be more divided than it has ever been. Part of the problem seems to be a lack of rational conversation with one other about our political beliefs, and the reasons for them.

Carroll County Times // Midterms looming and politics leaving you frustrated? Do you find your crazy liberal uncle impenetrable, or your conservative niece baffling? Have you found yourself hissing in incomprehensible rage at your neighbor’s campaign signs? Or maybe, you think people being that at-odds is itself just maddening?

Daily Democrat // Can seven progressives and six conservatives get together for a day of talking about their political beliefs without anger and explosiveness?

Gettysburg Times // Two dozen area residents spent Saturday at the Gettysburg library engaged in efforts to help “depolarize” American society.

Gettysburg Times // Two dozen area residents spent Saturday at the Gettysburg library engaged in efforts to help “depolarize” American society.