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My podcast is "How Do We Fix It?" I write here about the need for nuance, curiosity, humility and humor a time of toxic divides. Member: Braver Angels.
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Busting Out of Your Bubble. How Wesley Warshawer Did It (opens the original)
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In 2017, data analyst Wesley Warshawer was shocked by a poll that said 50% of Americans supported Donald Trump, about half lived with a gun their home, and a third believed in a literal reading of The Book of Genesis.This didn’t match the views of anyone he knew in Silicon Valley, California. What he read about our country's deep divides led him to sell his apartment in San Jose and spend 18 months living in some of the most conservative parts of America.What he found was that most people across
AllSides: Balanced News, Bias Ratings, Dialogue Across Difference. John Gable (opens the original)
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What role does the news media play in polarizing us? How do print, radio, TV, and online journalists reinforce our views of the world rather than connecting us to all sides of an issue? Our guest is John Gable, co-founder and CEO of AllSides.com, which rates news media sites for bias, organizes citizen roundtables, and links readers every day to coverage from left, right, and center-biased media. AllSides presents major news stories from a range of perspe
Washington Won’t Save America. The Rest of Us Might. We’re The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For. (opens the original)
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Just Because You Passionately Disagree, It Doesn’t Mean The Other Side Is The Enemy (opens the original)
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Can Democrats and Republicans Learn To Listen? Patricia Higgins & Doug Teschner (opens the original)
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Here’s something many Democrats and Republicans agree on: The way we debate and discuss politics is messed up. We talk past each other instead of getting things done. Huge amounts of time and money are wasted on bickering and bravado. Neither political party has built a lasting coalition to deal with the most urgent problems of the day. In this podcast we look something local and practical: New Hampshire’s experiment in bi-partisan cooperation. Dozens of state legislators are part of the nation’
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