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Here's Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Workers Rights

Common Ground / August 31st, 2022 / By Clare Ashcraft

There are plenty of aspects of workers’ rights and well-being that gain approval from people across the political spectrum.

Common Ground, Bipartisanship, Economy And Jobs, Unions, Labor, Holiday

Here's Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on the Issue of Poverty

Common Ground / August 22nd, 2022 / By Clare Ashcraft

Poverty compounds many policies and social issues, from education to incarceration. This means that both sides have incentives to mitigate it, resulting in a lot of common ground on the issue.

Common Ground, Bipartisanship, Poverty, Inequality, Economy And Jobs

Here's Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Education Policy

Common Ground / August 15th, 2022 / By Clare Ashcraft

Education is an issue that touches everyone – and can easily be divisive, especially when it comes to matters like whether teachers should be allowed to conceal information from parents about their child. So, where do Americans agree on education policy?

Common Ground, Bipartisanship, Education, School Choice, College, Public Schools

Here's Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on LGBTQ Issues

Common Ground / August 8th, 2022 / By Clare Ashcraft

While much of the country remains deeply divided on trans issues, there has been much progress and common ground on LGBTQ issues as a whole.

Common Ground, Bipartisanship, LGBTQ Issues, Transgender Issues, Gay Rights

Here's Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Foreign Policy

Common Ground / August 1st, 2022 / By Clare Ashcraft

With the United States consistently oscillating between isolationist and interventionist periods depending on the political climate, views about foreign policy tend to shift with the times. Even so, party divisions exist on this issue, as does common ground.

Common Ground, Foreign Policy, World, Bipartisan, Bipartisanship

Here's Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Family and Childcare Policy

Common Ground / July 25th, 2022 / By Clare Ashcraft

Debates pertaining to family matters can be some of the most contentious in politics because they are so personal. Despite these disputes, there is still a lot of common ground on family and childcare policy.

Common Ground, Democrat, Republican, Bipartisanship, Family, Family And Marriage, Childcare, Children

Americans overwhelmingly support some bipartisan election reforms

Recommended Reading / July 5th, 2022 / By David Meyers

A bipartisan group of 16 senators is preparing a variety of proposals to update the Electoral Count Act, and CommonSense American, which prepares briefings on legislative ideas and encourages advocacy from its 43,000 members, released survey data this week on some of those concepts.

Bipartisanship, Bridging Divides, US Senate, Electoral Reform, Elections, Voting Rights And Voter Fraud

Bipartisan Gun Laws Take Shape

Story of the Week / June 16th, 2022 / By AllSides Staff

The proposal includes enhanced background checks of buyers under 21, funding for mental health and school safety resources, and grants for states to enforce "red flag" laws.

Story Of The Week, Bipartisanship, Gun Control And Gun Rights, 2nd Amendment

Do Earmarks Encourage Bipartisanship?

Recommended Reading / April 26th, 2022 / By Divided We Fall (author)

Would reinstating congressional earmarks improve or hinder legislative gridlock as well as bipartisanship?

Bridging Divides, Bipartisanship, Economic Policy, Federal Budget, Role Of Government, Federal State And Tribal Powers

When A Little Bipartisanship Goes a Short Way

Recommended Reading / February 14th, 2022 / By Dan Schnur

Even on this Balkanized political landscape, there is occasional evidence of bipartisan cooperation.

Bridging Divides, Bipartisanship, US Congress, 2022 Elections

When Bipartisanship is A Long Way Away

Recommended Reading / January 24th, 2022 / By Dan Schnur

Presidential elections are fought in between the forty-yard lines. Midterms are won and lost on the goal lines.

Politics, Joe Biden, Voting Rights And Voter Fraud, Elections, Bipartisanship, Bridging Divides, 2022 Elections

When Democrats and Republicans Agree on Something

Recommended Reading / December 10th, 2021 / By Dan Schnur

The bill banning most imports from the Xinjiang region of China addresses a critical matter of international policy on which Biden should deploy as much political capital as he can muster.

Bridging Divides, Bipartisanship, China, Human Rights, Uighur Muslims, Trade, World

The Bipartisan Fight for Mental Health

Recommended Reading / August 5th, 2021 / By Jackson Lanzer

Both Democrats and Republicans have begun to fight for improved and expanded mental health resources.

Public Health, Mental Health, Bipartisanship, Bridging Divides

How Joe Biden Can Renew America’s National Dialogue

Recommended Reading / May 3rd, 2021 / By Guest Writer - Center

Reweaving the fabric of civil dialogue must be a national priority, and mediation is the way to do it right. “Too many Americans see our public life, not as an arena for mediation of our differences,” Joe Biden has observed , but “as an occasion for total, unrelenting, partisan warfare.”...

National Dialogue, Joe Biden, Bipartisanship, Mediation

How a Famous Democratic Socialist and Christian Conservative Forged a Deep Friendship

News / March 30th, 2021 / By Marcia Beckford

Cornel West and Robert P. George are unlikely friends, but they are so close they call each other “brother” and regularly talk about friendship and faith across political differences. West, a Democratic Socialist, public intellectual and self-described “revolutionary Christian,” and...

Bridging Divides, Polarization, Bipartisanship, Culture, United News Roundup

When Biden Makes His First No-Win Decision

Recommended Reading / January 29th, 2021 / By Dan Schnur

From the Center This viewpoint is from a writer rated Center. Joe Biden was sworn into office less than two weeks ago and he is already facing the type of seminal decision that could define his presidency. Worse, it’s not clear if either option he is considering is a particularly good one...

Joe Biden, Coronavirus, Bipartisanship, Polarization, Coronavirus Stimulus, US Senate

When Cracks Appear in the Republican Wall

Recommended Reading / December 29th, 2020 / By Dan Schnur

You know it’s hard out here for an optimist. We can see that the outgoing president will continue to indulge his penchant for brinkmanship and disruption until noon on Jan. 20, and that the consequences of his behavior will create all sorts of obstacles to his successor and inflict all...

Republican Party, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Bipartisanship, Coronavirus Stimulus

Hope for the Future, Regardless of Election Outcomes: Gen Z Members Sow the Seeds of Bipartisanship

News / November 1st, 2020 / By Jackson Lanzer

At times it seems that America is blanketed with a blinding fog of combative rhetoric and polarization. Yet many lights still shine through as beacons of bipartisanship. Many of those who lead us on our path to greater bipartisanship are the politically active youth of America. In some...

Bridging Divides, Bipartisanship, Polarization, Culture, United News Roundup

Tag: Bipartisanship