Common Ground Blog Posts

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.

Entertainment has been used for decades to improve attitudes toward other groups, both in the U.S. and abroad. One can think of movies like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, helping change attitudes towar...

College campuses claim to be centers of diversity and inclusion, yet many students today are less diverse and feel more excluded than ever.

Current efforts to improve how Americans think and feel about those across the political spectrum overwhelmingly rely on participation. Participation usually involves interpersonal interaction, mostly...

It's no secret that most of us in America find ourselves in a wildly different place these days.