Limbaugh’s passing felt like the end of an era. Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress and the Biden administration are unveiling proposals for the future.
January 26, 2021What is taking oxygen today is the war between the two factions of the Republican Party: the Trump faction and the business faction.
December 14, 2017There is growing evidence that what drives partisanship in the US is not a love for one’s own party, but a hatred of the other party.
June 23, 2017Many commentators are suggesting that both right and left are equally to blame for all the polarization between them. They’re wrong.
April 28, 2017A communications expert says we need to change the conversation on climate change to get through to those who are doubtful.
April 12, 2017Twenty years ago, linguist Deborah Tannen identified a pattern of interaction in which winning was more important than discovering the truth. She never expected that attitude to prevail in the White House.
November 9, 2016Unless we find a way to close the divide in our nation, we may end up not having a nation at all.
December 6, 2015Whatever bipartisanship that once existed between the Democratic and Republican parties has, for now at least, all but vanished – the victim of extremist rhetoric from the right and a gerrymandering of representation that has created few places where there’s any real competition between the two parties. Yet it’s crucial that we understand both conservative and liberal ideologies if there’s to be any hope of cooperation or progress. We have tried to give exposure to ...
December 3, 2015In a new essay, Bill Moyers and Michael Winship write that Republicans seem to have made up their minds: they will divide, degrade and ultimately run the country into the ground.
November 2, 2014Dem disgust versus vague Team GOP unhappiness: it adds up to nervous scoreboard-watching on the left side of the national ballpark.
