Braver Angels News and Blog Posts

The final debate in Braver Angels’ series on President Trump’s First 100 Days is coming up! Register here to join: Resolved: President Trump is Making America Great Again.

Here are three strategies these organizations are using – and people can try to use in their own daily lives – to reduce political polarization.

Over a three year period (2020-2023), Braver Angels—the largest grassroots group working to bridge the political divide—convened a group of Democrats and Republicans in equal numbers to create a report of bipartisan solutions for elections.

To reduce political polarization, we need to change the electoral systems that currently amplify incentives for politicians to be divisive, both in terms of how they act and what they say. One such system that could lessen the desire of those running for and elected to office to engage in polarizing activity is ranked choice voting (RCV).

Education should be a part of the solution to overall political depolarization. But it should not be the only solution, according to a K-12 education and depolarization panel hosted by the DC and Fairfax Alliances of Braver Angels, along with Bridge at Mason.

In the early days of social media, when the promise of connections around the world seemed real, likely some people would have associated social media with broccoli. Now social media has lost its luster. But with the right kinds of policy reforms, can some of social media’s luster come back?

Could purposeful artistry of some medium ever be used to depolarize politics?

Dialogue is essential but insufficient: We need bigger, better ideas to scale up the massive mountain of political polarization.

Below are four perspectives — two red and two blue — on President Biden’s recent executive action on student loan forgiveness.

Our differences do not disappear when we deplatform people, or cut them out of our lives. So how can we contend with the differences that challenge us so deeply?