Tag: Civil Discourse

Sharon McMahon, or @SharonSaysSo, joined AllSides CEO John Gable and Director of Marketing Julie Mastrine to discuss civil discourse on our Instagram page.

Twitter will soon let you restrict who can reply to your tweets. The social media giant is experimenting with the following controls that it plans to roll out globally later this year: Global - Anybody can reply to your tweet Group - People you follow and mention in the tweet can reply...

Despite the overwhelming division and non-stop crisis apparent in the media — from impeachment to Syria to threats to our democratic institutions — it's not all doom and gloom. We've got some good news — news so core to our mission that we decided to share with all of our friends...

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...

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...

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...

As I sat in the front row of Second Baptist Church of Boulder, Colorado waiting to be called up to join my fellow panelists, I found myself wondering what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would think of this moment. On this Saturday morning, some fifty years after he was assassinated,...