US EditionMost Americans want to connect more -- in person
- Tropp, a social psychologist, wrote about Americans' desire to connect in The Fulcrum.
- Americans feel exhausted by divisions, politics, and a media that thrives on tearing people apart.
- Many Americans want to be good neighbors and connect across differences, despite fewer opportunities today.
- Quoting Yascha Mounk, diverse democracies endure by investing in social infrastructure for connections.
- Reinvesting in social infrastructure helps build trust for stronger, actively engaged communities, the author suggests.
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36 Articles
Omaha World-Herald
Most Americans want to connect more
Americans are exhausted — by our divisions, poli-tics and media landscape that thrives on tearing us apart. When asked to envision our ideal future, Americans say they want to connect and be united. But how do we get there?
Compromise in order to accept others
To the editor, Why are we American citizens disagreeing with each other so bitterly over what are often just life style issues? Why does it matter to us how other people entertain themselves, organize their households, worship or not worship, etc. If my neighbor likes to dirt bike, what does that have to do with my desire to bird watch? If I attend church how does that threaten my neighbor who does not? Of course, all of us think our own choices…
The Billings Gazette
Most Americans want to connect more -- in person
Americans are exhausted — by our divisions, politics and media landscape that thrives on tearing us apart. When asked to envision our ideal future, Americans say they want to connect and be united. But how do we get there?
Amid national divisions, shared experiences bond San Diegans
When I retired two years ago from UC San Diego at age 80, I was living in a world totally transformed from my 30s. The internet, cellphones, genomics and artificial intelligence, unparalleled social diversity, the economic power of China, and the end of a major global pandemic framed the challenges and opportunities of everyday Americans and the nature of our politics and civil society. Retirement brought two gifts. One was to more deeply engage…
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