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Beyond 1:1 Dialogue: How We Can Depolarize at Scale and Climb Mount Polarization

Common Ground / May 8th, 2023 / By Aaron Kohrs

Dialogue is essential but insufficient: We need bigger, better ideas to scale up the massive mountain of political polarization.

Bridging Divides, Braver Angels, Depolarization, Civil Dialogue

Reform in 2023: Why We Think You Should Make Dialogue Your New Year's Resolution

Recommended Reading / December 30th, 2022 / By Debilyn Molineaux

The world is changing. What we have control to change is our perception and our response. One way to feel empowered is to observe, decide, and then act.

Bridging Divides, Civil Dialogue, National Dialogue, Holiday, Happy New Year, New Years

Everyday Heroes: Pearce Godwin of the Listen First Project

Bias / July 6th, 2021 / By AllSides Staff

A trip to Africa led Pearce Godwin, founder of the Listen First Project, on a journey to heal what’s broken with American democracy.

Listen First, Bridging Divides, The Reunited States, Civil Dialogue

How Media Can Be a Bridge, Not a Weapon, to Address Political Divides: John R. Wood Jr.

News / June 23rd, 2021 / By AllSides Staff

John R. Wood, Jr.’s biracial background and bipartisan parents laid the framework for his extensive career working across differences and divides.

Braver Angels, The Reunited States, John R. Wood Jr., Bridging Divides, Civil Dialogue

Civil Discourse, Media Bias, And Admitting When We're Wrong

Bias / July 21st, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

At AllSides, we talk a lot about how bias is natural. Everyone has one — if you’ve got a pulse, you’ve got a bias. We support getting a variety of different perspectives because we believe freeing people from one-sided, biased filter bubbles helps us to better understand the world — and...

Bias, Media Bias, Civil Discourse, Civil Dialogue

Loss and Transformation: Connecting with Others Amid COVID-19

Bias / April 21st, 2020 / By Joan Blades

Anxiety and loss are dominant themes in our lives as the path of COVID-19 careens through our communities. Underneath this, I keep hearing about bright spots and possibilities. That we might discover that we can improve medical care, climate care, work practice, education, provide...

Living Room Conversations, Joan Blades, Civil Dialogue

Podcast: The Effects of Political Polarization on Our Culture

Bias / November 4th, 2019 / By John R. Wood Jr.

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on Better Angels . Bret Weinstein is a professor of evolutionary biology. He was at the center of the moral panic at Evergreen State College in May of 2017, after which time his public commentary led him to a place of prominence in the cross-...

Political Polarization, Civil Discourse, Civil Dialogue

When Talking to Conservatives, Liberals May Want to Avoid These Terms

Bias / May 30th, 2019 / By James Coan

Editor's note: See our list of words conservatives may want to avoid when talking to liberals. Suppose you are talking to another person who has very different political viewpoints. Everything seems to be going fine. Then, you say a word or phrase that unintentionally alienates the other...

Bridging America's Divide, Bridging Divides, Bias, Civil Dialogue, Civil Discourse

America Needs Marriage Counseling

Bias / April 19th, 2019 / By Kristin Hansen

This video and commentary originally appeared on National Conversation Project's #ListenFirstFriday project. A recent academic study found that America is now more politically polarized than at the end of the Reconstruction Era, following the Civil War. An even more recent opinion piece...

Civil Dialogue, Civil Discourse, Democracy, Poliitcal Polarization

Celebrating Political Diversity

News / April 16th, 2019 / By Julie Mastrine

In early March, AllSides attended the 10th annual Wisdom 2.0 conference in San Francisco. AllSides CEO John Gable joined Joan Blades, founder of Living Room Conversations, to gave a presentation on celebrating political diversity. Check out the video on the Wisdom 2.0 Conference website...

Civil Dialogue, Civil Discourse, Relationships, Polarization, Political Polarization, AllSides

Political Polarization in America, in Two Fascinating Charts

News / March 12th, 2019 / By Julie Mastrine

Polarization in America is something I've been able to get a clear sense of when reading the news or checking social media, but ever since I saw these two charts illustrating the problem, I haven't been able to get them out of my head. The first, from The Economist (Lean Left media bias...

Media Bias, Polarization, Political Polarization, Democrats, Republicans, Civil Dialogue, Civil Discourse, Hyper-Partisanship

Is Civility a Bogus Concept After All?

Bias / November 26th, 2018 / By Julie Mastrine

We built AllSides in part because we believe in the power of civility and civil discourse . AllSides helps people build relationships with those who are different from them, which we believe will ultimately improve our democracy. But, could we be wrong? What if civility is actually a sham...

Civility, Civil Discourse, Civil Dialogue, Bridging Divides, Bridging America's Divide

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