The Federalist // Braver Angels sets up ‘red-blue workshops’ in which an equal number of conservative and progressive adults talk about their differences within a structured format.
Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, explores the question, “Why are good people divided by politics?” He also takes questions
USA Today // Sheila Kloefkorn is a liberal, gay marketing executive in crimson-red Arizona who had a falling out with her family over the 2016 election. Greg Steinbrecher is a conservative aspiring actor from navy-blue California who has been labeled a “Nazi” by his friends for his right-of-center views.
Steve Sphar and Marisa Bogdanoff, the red and blue co-chairs of Better Angels’ Sacramento alliance, discuss their journey to build an alliance, including the challenges of equally representing the two sides.
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As we reflect on the 50TH anniversary of the murder of Robert Kennedy, and remember the terrible divisions in our country of that time, the poem so often quoted back then, Yeats’ “The Second Coming,” seems chillingly appropriate today.
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Close-mindedness of both atheist and religious dogmatists “amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn’t even know he’s locked up.”
As we celebrate Memorial Day, we review the past month’s parade of polarization.
Immediately after the 2016 presidential election, in the thick doldrums of what for me and many of my friends was a genuine tragedy, I started to talk about empathy. I had been finding it tough to come to terms with the beliefs of some of the people I cared about in my life, but I was at least having conversations with them.
Sally Kohn is a longtime organizer, political commentator (on both CNN and Fox News), and the author of the just-published “The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our
The only real surprise is that the latest school shooting grabbed the attention of the polarizers and finger-pointers as we might have expected.
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Atlantic Magazine: The Bipartisan Group That’s Not Afraid of Partisanship ABC News: Better Angels group puts Democrats and Republicans, Trump supporters and immigrants, in the same room to listen to each
Peter Yarrow sings a tune, and Andrew Walker of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission delivers a Christian case for depolarization.
We “learn” how the left has lost is mind, Republicans are sadists, Democrat officeholders are prone to sexual abuse, libertarians are self-indulgent hypocrites and so much more.
Franceinfo // In the run-up to the mid-term elections, franceinfo attended a workshop aimed at reconciling progressives and conservatives.
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The degradation of the process of democracy continues as thoughtful airing and arguing of disagreements continues to give way to tribal name calling, finger pointing and accusing.
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Financial Times // What happened when hardened Democrats and Republicans got together in the same room.
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It’s a good thing we don’t have any serious problems to resolve, or we wouldn’t have time to have this much fun eviscerating each other.
The Philadelphia Citizen // Like so many (especially) left-leaning Americans, Madelena Rizzo spent the weeks after the 2016 Presidential election disheartened by what was happening in her country.
BBC News // Deb is “very far to the left”. Tom’s a die-hard Republican. What happened when they met?
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Better Angels President David Blankenhorn talks to Jordan Peterson, a psychologist, professor, and influential conservative intellectual, about politics, polarization, and how to bring conservatives into the fold.
No one can deny that Donald Trump is polarizing – this is his modus operandi, beginning with name calling. Is this a cost we can afford?
Oprah Magazine // It’s time for every last American to listen with less anger, argue with more grace and find the way to higher ground.
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Amos, Andy and Apu Facebook Reddit Twitter Email John looks at the reemergence of controversy surrounding the Simpsons character ‘Apu,’ along with a glance back at the history of stereotypical
The degeneracy of rational discourse into name calling and finger pointing undermines not just one side but both sides of the argument.
John Wood, Jr. looks at David Hogg’s impact on the gun control debate and asks what his influence says about the adults who have allowed for our current situation with
Guest speaker John Wood, Jr., an African American Republican who challenged Rep. Maxine Waters for Congress in 2014 and is now Director of Media Development at Better Angels, addresses “Why I’m
