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When Compromise Makes a Comeback

Recommended Reading / May 30th, 2023 / By Dan Schnur

Somehow, Biden and McCarthy managed to resurrect the art of compromise in an extraordinarily uncompromising time.

Debt Ceiling, Kevin McCarthy, Joe Biden, Politics, Politcal Polarization, Bipartisanship, Bridging Divides

Voters want compromise in Congress – so why the brinkmanship over the debt ceiling?

Recommended Reading / May 26th, 2023 / By "The Conversation" Contributor

There’s progress on the debt limit. There’s no progress. Conservatives have revolted. Liberal Democrats are angry. Negotiators actually ate a meal together. That’s a good sign. No it isn’t. Who’s up? Who’s down?

National Debt, Debt Ceiling, Bipartisanship, Biden, Kevin McCarthy

Here's Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Drug Policy

Common Ground / May 23rd, 2023 / By Clare Ashcraft

Opioid addiction and fentanyl laced drugs continue to be an issue across communities, Republican and Democratic. Here are a few bipartisan solutions to the issue.

Common Ground, Drugs, Bipartisanship, Marijuana, Fentanyl, Drug Overdoses

When China Unites Us

Recommended Reading / February 13th, 2023 / By Dan Schnur

There’s an old saying in politics: be suspicious of anything that passes by a unanimous vote.

China, Chinese Spy Balloons, Defense And Security, Bipartisanship

Flame Retardants in Your Earbuds? Toxic Chemicals in Homes? Left and Right are Sick of It

Recommended Reading / January 31st, 2023 / By Multiple Writers - Mixed

Sometimes the left and right agree on things for opposite reasons. Sometimes for the same reason. And still, nothing happens.

Bipartisanship, Environment, Health, Science, Big Government

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

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