It is both a functioning democracy鈥檚 bedrock requirement and, seemingly, its most elusive feature: Civil discourse can add social stability. It is the starting point of understanding. It demands mental maturity and patience. This week showed why it needs to be nurtured in the United States.听
A newsroom meeting on Thursday was rich with pitches for constructive takes on where U.S. society might look for rift-healing. One came from Stephen Humphries, who takes a broad approach to his culture portfolio. He spoke with me about that in a podcast on civility a couple of years ago. Also a guest on that show: Alexandra Hudson. She has made civility-building central to her work.
Stephen spoke with her, among others, for one of two stories聽today on healing political divisions, to which Troy Aidan Sambajon and Caitlin Babcock also contributed.听
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