Common Ground Blog Posts

Written by John Wood Jr. (Center bias) and originally published on the OmniAmerican Society. I was recently watching a debate between Steven Crowder (a popular, irreverent, and influential conservativ...

Wilk Wilkinson knew how to rile people up from a young age. Growing up in the eighties, his family moved all around the Midwest as his parents chased down steady, blue-collar work: factory jobs, const...

A few months ago, we stood in a room only feet apart, separated by a thick strip of black duct tape stretching across the floor. During the philosophical exercise, the duct tape divided Democrats and...

When German soccer fan @FreddyLA7 landed in Atlanta, Georgia for the World Cup, he wasn’t sure what to expect. Across Europe, stereotypes suggest Americans are loud, ignorant, hyper-individualistic an...

Conversations, connections, and compromises cannot wait for your comfort.

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground." ~ Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Col. Edward Carrington, Paris, 27 May 1788

Convictions are only as powerful as your ability to explain them. Without challenging our convictions, we sacrifice progress in the name of comfort.

We are more connected than ever before—and yet, perhaps, never more divided.

Hi Elon, so I see you’re launching a new political party. Totally understand the impulse, and I guess if anyone can pull off the impossible, it’s you.

Senator Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) is the most bipartisan member of Congress per the rankings of multiple organizations.