Can local news save us?

We may have lost our faith in legacy news, but there's one news source that's continued to have our backs and our trust.

Mar 11 • Alexandra Vollman

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The politicization of the news media

How the media's exploitation of our tribal tendencies can lead us astray — or bring us together.

Mar 4 • Alexandra Vollman

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February 2026

The commoditization of the news media

When we stop paying for the news, who pays the price?

Feb 25 • Alexandra Vollman

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American in name only

The U.S. men's Olympic hockey team reminds us what it means to be truly American.

Feb 23 • Alexandra Vollman

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Selling liberty: The propaganda campaign that funded WWI

The tactics conceived by President Wilson’s Committee on Public Information became the blueprint for engineering consensus in wartime and beyond.

Feb 5 • Alexandra Vollman

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December 2025

Finding common ground in conflict

John F. Kennedy learned the hard way that resolving conflict means meeting your adversary where they're at.

Dec 17, 2025 • Alexandra Vollman

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The truth about political disagreements with strangers

Researcher Michael Kardas shares how our expectations don’t often align with reality.

Dec 17, 2025 • Alexandra Vollman

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Using the 'wisdom of faith traditions' to bring Americans together

The One America Movement is showing that rather than being part of the problem of polarization, religion can be the answer to it.

Dec 4, 2025 • Alexandra Vollman

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November 2025

A Q-and-A with BridgeUSA Founder & CEO

Manu Meel believes that our current division is more philosophical than political.

Nov 15, 2025 • Alexandra Vollman

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A Q-and-A with Braver Angels' Gabbi Kearns

Rather than with some civil conflict, she believes our polarization may end by Americans simply tiring of it.

Nov 15, 2025 • Alexandra Vollman

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Is the ‘Bridging’ movement the counterculture of our time?

With acceptance of political violence at an all-time high, a silent but growing number of college students – members of BridgeUSA – are showing…

Nov 14, 2025 • Alexandra Vollman

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Bread and circuses: The follie of government assistance

How Rome's grain dole undermined the Republic's own advancement by creating a society incapable of fending for itself.

Nov 8, 2025 • Alexandra Vollman

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