As the tone of public discourse becomes increasingly angry and divisive, Common Ground Committee offers a healing path to reaching agreement and moving forward. We talk with top leaders in public policy, finance, academe and more to encourage the seeking and finding of points of agreement, and to demonstrate how combating incivility can lead us forward.
133 episodes transcribedThe holiday season is here but many people across the country may be dreading sitting down with their nearest and dearest— all because of politics. In...
Democrats feared and Republicans expected a "red wave" election, but it didn’t happen. Why was the outcome such a surprise? Who gets the credit and...
While many American consumers have given up their daily news habit, millions of others are now addicted to rage media— cable news and social media tha...
The United States has one of the highest news avoidance rates in the world. Tens of millions of Americans don't read, watch or listen to the news each...
Rigid polarization and political division are among the biggest challenges facing our country. Young people often feel that tribalism is better than u...
Polarization is not just a problem for Congress and our political system, it’s also taking a toll in the workplace. Employees are falling out with eac...
Our guests on today’s show are part of the school shooting generation. Each grew up with active shooter drills and concerns that their school could be...
The primary election season in this midterm election year is now over in most states. Turnout was often very low— less than 20% of registered voters s...
In US politics bipartisanship is now the exception, not the rule. But the Millennial Action Project is pushing back: it trains young leaders to bridge...
American business can be a force for finding common ground, but large corporations must now answer to a growing array of stakeholders, who often have...
The world is being shaken by a collision of energy needs, climate change, and clashes between nations in a time of global crisis— made much worse by R...
Environmental activist and author Bill McKibben warned the public about the perils of climate change and the damage human activity is causing more tha...
We live in a world of political extremes, with the far right and far left denigrating each other on a regular basis. But could the future lie with pol...
All too often people in public life talk past each other and assume that all Americans are rigid Republicans or determined Democrats. So what happens...
Every day on social media and cable TV, in newspapers and magazines, we're told that we live in a red-versus-blue world of rigid divides. Our podcast...
Kelly Johnston and Rob Fersh disagree strongly on many issues, and voted differently in the 2020 presidential election. But they are friends and “agre...
We all judge others on how they sound: their accent, their pronunciation, their use of slang. Some of us have been criticized for these things ourselv...
The recent mass shootings in Sacramento, California, and at a subway station in Brooklyn, New York have prompted renewed calls for action on gun contr...
Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who strongly support Donald Trump. We hear her warm personal story of how Mónica se...
The public’s trust in government is near an all-time low. Now some politicians are recognizing that polarization and division in the United States is...
