Clive Pinder’s recent column about the “colonizers” of SLO County points out that “We need a politics of AND, not OR.” Let’s recognize the values we share with our SLO County neighbors, regardless of ...

Even without a ‘kumbaya’ moment, conservative and liberal participants in a five-hour Braver Angel workshop arrive at ‘actionable’ agreements on the red-hot issue of immigration. After each shared a ...

Michigan is a battleground state, in every sense of the word. Here, purple doesn't mean moderate; it means the 50-50, Red/Blue split is a chasm. On a recent Saturday in Traverse City, Mich., people ...

The 2016 Election was kind of the catalyst. Honestly, we could have probably set up Braver Angels at many other times in the last 25 years, and it would have been just as important and just as useful ...

Reports say rising incivility harms Americans in many ways, including their personal lives (relationships broken over politics), their work (employees reportedly face 190 million uncivil acts per day) ...

Braver Conversations | 'Our current focus on our differences has led us to forget what we have in common' A dozen members of the Braver Angels East Central Illinois Alliance explain why they joined, ...

Over the past several months, members of the Braver Angels East Central Illinois Alliance have taken turns writing this bi-weekly column. In today’s column, they — and other members — share their ...

When "CBS Sunday Morning" national correspondent Rita Braver first started her career, she said she wanted to work for a newspaper but was told she didn't have enough experience. So she decided to ...

From his perspective as a longtime observer of political discourse in the United States, Boston College Political Science Professor Peter Skerry believes that the toxicity and polarization in American ...