Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
04/28/2021
“Progress for People of Color Doesn’t Come at White Folks’ Expense”
A conversation with Heather C. McGhee about the zero-sum thinking that has long dominated American attitudes to race and wealth—and how to organize to secure public goods for everyone.
04/23/2021
Prisoners of Hope: America’s Racial Reckoning
A conversation with Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
04/20/2021
What Makes a Happy Country?
Finland, for the fourth consecutive year, topped a list of countries evaluated on the well-being of their inhabitants. “Really?” Finns ask.
04/19/2021
The Painful Path to Unity
Redressing injustice and rebuilding community will force us all to acknowledge our shortcomings. But we have to get started.
04/13/2021
Eight in Ten Americans are Concerned About Partisanship. Here’s How ‘The Unum Test’ Can Reunite America
Healing our divided nation is the defining challenge of our time. Nothing less than the success of the American experiment is at stake.
03/25/2021
Everyone Is Wrong About Participation Trophies
You’ve heard the story: Young people got “participation trophies” as kids, and it taught them to be entitled, lazy workers. But here’s what you haven’t heard: Participation trophies are 100 years old, and for most of that time, they were considered a good thing.
04/08/2021
The Call to Unite | Tim Shriver with John Wood, Jr. & April Lawson
Educator, activist, and author Tim Shriver joins the Braver Angels Podcast to talk about his new book, The Call to Unite, and the budding nationwide movement to unite America.
04/19/2019
Episode 10: Ending ageism with Ashton Applewhite
03/24/2021
America’s Public Forum: Friendship’s Meaning In Our Divided, Isolated Times
A wide-ranging conversation on the centrality of friendship—personal or civic, online or in-person, chosen or accidental—in addressing, at least, the great social crisis of our times, and perhaps even the great political questions of our age.
01/18/2021
“Rebuilding America” with Tom Friedman
Truth and trust are the cornerstones of U.S. democracy. How can the United States, and its leaders, resurrect those central ideas to ensure a viable future for the country and its people?
03/19/2021
Empathy and Our Future
While many in America are now debating accountability vs. unity, there is another concept that belongs in any conversation about how America can recover from a divisive election, devastating pandemic, and long history of racial injustice – empathy.
03/16/2021