Polarization 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.

The recent controversial arrests, detainments, and deportations of several non-permanent U.S. residents struck a chord with some AllSides team members.

The first days of a new year are usually pretty light on the news, so this time of year is usually a good opportunity to take a step back for some broader reflection before the battle is joined. But 2025 has already begun with a rush. 

Today we rely upon a for-profit media system that’s desperate for eyeballs, we have social media and extreme polarization, and we are drowning in cheap speech.

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

It has become difficult to imagine an America that is not dominated by today’s roaring spectacle. Where, instead, public discourse is sober, problem-focused, and restrained. Where the tide is turned against increasing national polarization. I’ve come to the conclusion that this world is more within reach than anyone realizes.

Your vote in local elections is both more powerful and impactful to your own life than national elections. But polarization is sucking the life from local politics.

This growing polarization is a threat to our daily well being. When we can't talk with each other or agree on basic facts, how can we hope to get along at the dinner table or as a democratic society to solve the pressing issues that affect us all?

ProPublica tied the deaths of two women in Georgia to an abortion-restricting state law. Was this accurate?

It has become difficult to imagine an America that is not dominated by today’s roaring spectacle. Where, instead, public discourse is sober, problem-focused, and restrained. Where the tide is turned against increasing national polarization. I’ve come to the conclusion that this world is more within reach than anyone realizes.