Featured Video:
What can be done about polarization in the United States?
Speaker:
Rachel Klinfeld
Description:
Covering key ideas in just four minutes, this video by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace discusses a shift from focusing on the ideological polarization of elected officials to the high rate of “affective” (or emotional) polarization of everyday Americans. It explains the shortcomings of both calling for civility and pushing forward with a win-lose model, proposing another way forward.
Affective Polarization: Understanding Division in American Politics
Zachary Neal
TED Ed
Do politics make us irrational?
Jay Van Bavel
Historian compares American divisions to the past and how we can overcome them
America at a Crossroads
Examining how U.S. politics became intertwined with personal identity
America at a Crossroads
How a community is confronting divisions, talking through its differences
America at a Crossroads
Telling a better story about democracy is key to bridging the ideological divide
Sarah Longwell
TED Democracy
How to bridge political divides — from two friends on opposing sides
How governors are working on solutions amid intense political polarization
Political divides cut through marriages and families in the run-up to the 2024 election
Depolarization Day, by the Othering & Belonging Institute’s Campus Bridging Project and the Social Cohesion Lab
FRONTLINE: Divided States of America
Investigation of the causes of America’s polarization and exploration of how the next US president and Congress can govern in an era of complex challenges.
The ReUnited States
Powerful and urgent, this award-winning documentary follows the personal journeys of several bridge-builders who are passionate about reuniting the country across political and racial divides.
