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Former Minnesota State Representative Sandra Feist, who led the state's Civility Caucus and practices as an immigration attorney, shares two contrasting stories of political conflict. She details how an out-of-context tweet by a Republican colleague was successfully defused through direct, per…

Lauren Hall, author of The Medicalization of Birth and Death andThe Radical Moderate's Guide to Life Substack and the co-host of the We Made This Political podcast, breaks down why labeling half the country as unreachable is empirically incorrect, morally flawed, and strategically self-defeati…

Katherine Brodsky, host of the Forbidden Conversations podcast and author of No Apologies: How to Find and Free Your Voice in an Age of Outrage, was the target of a cancellation attempt. While managing an online professional network for women journalists, an Fox News job posting on the forum trigge…

Attorney, certified mediator, and conflict resolution educator Catherine Wilhoit discusses how to bring problem-solving tools to young learners as early as possible. She explores how the philosophy of the "trained neutral," typically reserved for legal mediation, can be adapted into a tea…

Annie Rappeport, who brings 15 years of dialogue design and facilitation experience at various universities, explores the professional friction between immediate productivity and deep, collaborative engagement. She has frequently navigated a specific disagreement: critics argue that a new leader sh…

Frances Lee (professor of political science at Princeton, author of Insecure Majorities, co-author of In Covid's Wake) challenges the common narrative that the United States Congress is a hopelessly dysfunctional institution. While popular opinion often benchmarks the current legislature again…

Steven Olikara (founding CEO of Bridge Entertainment Labs, former U.S. Senate candidate in Wisconsin, and one of the stars of the documentary The Reunited States) pulls back the curtain on what he calls the "division industrial complex." This conversation shows how political operatives, t…

Is civic education a fundamental duty of higher education or a dangerous political risk? Alex Kappus of Carnegie Higher Education Consulting and the Democratic Knowledge Project to discuss the growing institutional fear of being labeled "partisan" for simply teaching the mechanics of demo…

Kent Lenci, an educator, founder of Middle Ground School Solutions, and author of Learning to Depolarize, dissects a depolarization story in three acts. What starts as a heated confrontation over a seemingly neutral photo of Donald Trump evolves into a masterclass in de-escalation across multiple m…