Stars and Strife: A Discussion on Division in the United States
This week, the Common Ground Committee hosted a discussion of the new documentary Stars and Strife, which examines the increasing division in American political culture....
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On the Possibilities and Limits of Political Forgiveness
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness was written by Simon Wiesenthal in 1969. In the book, Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor, recalls an...
Union: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Search for Common Ground
This week, Divided We Fall sat down with Jordan Blashek, former Marine Corps Infantry Officer, graduate of Stanford Graduate Business School and Yale Law School,...
Facts First or Fake News? A Debate on Media in America
We often hear that Americans complain about bias in their news coverage. People around the country often want the facts, but our media outlets achieve...
Why Dialogue and Civility Matter
In America the people are sovereign. That’s a premise we can all agree on, right? See! Civility isn’t so hard. We agree already! Well, no…...
Civility Towards Incivility Still Matters
This past week, our country witnessed several tragedies: a man in Kentucky shot and killed two African Americans at a Kroger grocery store, a Florida...