Archive - Better Conflict Bulletin

Does Partisan Media Actually Persuade Anyone? – BCB #128

Also, a psychoanalytic take on political discord.

Dec 5 •

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November 2024

We Rate Thanksgiving Advice — BCB #127

We read all those articles, so you don’t have to

Nov 27 •

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Technology is Part of the Problem, but also Part of the Solution — BCB #126

Researchers are exploring how technology could improve dialogue—and democracy.

Nov 21 •

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Which Way Forward for Red and Blue? — BCB #125

How Americans are processing their feelings and envisioning the future.

Nov 14 •

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How To Win and Lose an Election — BCB #124

What we will owe to each other, after tonight.

Nov 5 •

How Progressivism Turned off Voters — BCB #123

Plus: Tips for surviving the coming days.

Nov 1 •

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October 2024

If You Can Imitate Them, Maybe You Can Understand Them — BCB #122

Also: elections don’t do much to reduce polarization but other things do, and how to talk about race in an Evangelical megachurch.

Oct 25 •

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DEI Programs Aren’t Making Us More Tolerant. What Will? – BCB #121

Also: how music taste maps onto politics, and a hopeful story of a free speech debacle gone right.

Oct 18 •

53 Roles That Make Democracy Work, and The People In Them — BCB #120

A sprawling new report from Beyond Intractability charts the web of roles that underpin healthy democracies—and who is doing what today

Oct 10 •

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What If Listening Isn’t the Key to Persuasion – BCB #119

Also: a tool for examining the social fabric of your neighborhood, and experiments in improving comments sections.

Oct 6 •

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September 2024

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