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- Biden Must Mobilize Americans to Fight "Toxic Polarization" -- An article in Newsweek, featuring our friend and colleague Peter Coleman. #mbi_colleague -- Feb 25
- Ian Rowe discusses 1776 Unites and his efforts to promote a vision of a unified America -- A report on a Black-led effort to find a less divisive and more effective way of addressing the many problems caused by America's history of racial discrimination. #mbi_context -- Feb 25
- The 5 Trump Amendments to the Constitution -- As we assess the Trump era's impact on our democratic institutions, a disturbing look at the ways in which he has effectively amended the Constitution. #mbi_context -- Feb 24
- Organizations Transforming Polarization & Division -- A categorized list, compiled by Columbia University scholars, of governmental and nongovernmental organizations in media, arts, technology, and education working in the U.S. to bridge our many divides. #mbi_colleague -- Feb 24
- The Case Against Partisan Bigotry -- For a time when many have joined the fight against bigotry, a plea to extend that concept across partisan lines and to stop dehumanizing our political opponents. #mbi_context -- Feb 23
- Are We One Country or Two? A Conversation about Reconciliation with David Blight -- What does civil war history tell us about our partisan divides of today? Historian David Blight says we have a lot to learn from looking at the past. #mbi_colleague -- Feb 23
- What We Mean When We Talk About “Unity” -- An eloquent explanation of how unity is distinct from bipartisanship and why a unified defense of democracy is something worth fighting for. #mbi_context -- Feb 23
- The Coming Technology Boom -- Politics is grim but science is working. -- A hopeful look at some of the promising new technologies that might help us solve our many problems – if only we could get beyond our political dysfunction. #mbi_context -- Feb 22
- A Texas grocery store lost power and let people leave without paying. Shoppers paid it forward. -- One of the many things that Texans did to help one another. We need more stories like this to put the stories about the things that went wrong in perspective. #mbi_context -- Feb 22
- Envisioning -- You can't get to where you want to go, if you don't know where it is. So how can you get to a desired future, if you don't know what that future looks like? #mbi_fundamentals -- Feb 22
- Millions of Conversations Newsletter -- A tip from MoC's "Pledge to Listen" series, together with a link to their highly useful "Listening Guide" #mbi_colleague -- Feb 22
- A Plague on Both Our Houses -- A surprisingly convincing argument that COVID was accidentally released from a civilian/military anti-viral lab. Controlling this technology is as important as controlling nuclear weapons! #mbi_context -- Feb 21
- Evolution of a Field: Personal Histories in Conflict Resolution -- Personal histories of 23 highly experienced mediators, reflecting on their backgrounds, work, inspirations, and challenges. #mbi_colleague -- Feb 21
- Positive Thinking -- Giving "the other" the benefit of the doubt most of the time will lead to better outcomes for everyone. #mbi_cci -- Feb 21
- The Way Out of America’s Zero-Sum Thinking on Race and Wealth -- An introductory article by the author of an important new book on a less divisive and more effective strategy for fighting gross economic injustice. #mbi_context -- Feb 21
- Is All Inequality Unjust? -- A hard look at the strengths and weaknesses of the different ways that people are now thinking about injustice and inequality. #mbi_context -- Feb 18
- Conflict Styles -- Competition, collaboration, compromise, avoidance, and accommodation all have costs and benefits. Know which is best when! #mbi_fundamentals -- Feb 18
- Otto Scharmer on the four levels of listening -- Generative listening goes beyond empathetic listening to foster new ideas formed between the speaker and the listener. #mbi_colleague -- Feb 18
- How to quash the resentments that cleave us -- A summary of a promising strategy for overcoming economic injustice and the resentments it fuels (while also addressing climate change). #mbi_context -- Feb 18
- Can Biden Save Americans Like My Old Pal Mike? -- This is a good way to think about public policy challenges. Start with someone you know whose life has been upended by events and work out from there. #mbi_context #mbi_context -- Feb 17
- The Power of Communities in Uncertain Times Part 2 -- A sense of belonging and purpose, generative conversations, and power-with instead of power over are all tools to build resilient, thriving communities. #mbi_colleague -- Feb 17
- Cultural Lag -- Today's culture wars are largely attributable to the fact that the different generations adapted their beliefs to very different social conditions. #mbi_fundamentals -- Feb 17
- Can Free Speech Survive the Internet? -- More food for thought on one of the most consequential questions of our time – the future of free speech. #mbi_context -- Feb 17
- George Floyd: How far have African Americans come since the 1960s? -- An informative statistical look at how the lives of African-Americans have and haven't improved in the decades following the 1965 Civil Rights Act. #mbi_context -- Feb 16
- Constructive Conflict Initiative Video -- Based on the Constructive Conflict Initiative, a 45 min. video that explains to students and others concerned about the world's many problems why the conflict threat is as serious as climate change and what they can do to help address it. #mbi_cci -- Feb 16
