Tag: Common Ground

On what issues do Republicans and Democrats agree – and disagree – on areas of life satisfaction? A new poll helps answer the question, and shows us that there's more common ground that we might imagine.

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.

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?

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.

Clear majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents "sometimes or never trust Facebook to do the right thing."

The vast majority of people, both pro-choice and pro-life Americans, are not absolutists on abortion issues.

According to major pollsters, legality of and access to abortions is as divisive an issue as there is in the U.S. But within that broader debate are many areas of agreement.

The subject of U.S. policing is contentious. But recent surveys show many areas of overlap when it comes to police reform.

Divisions in Washington, D.C. can seem bitter, so it can be helpful to remember more positive bipartisan experiences that began only a few years ago and continued afterward. A two-day road trip made by two Texas congressmen from different political parties from San Antonio to Washington,...