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  • How to Vote in the US (Step by Step)

    Mary Anglade

    At Common Ground Committee, our goal is to bring individuals together from all sides to bring light, not heat, to public discourse.  We also believe that voting is every citizen’s right, responsibility, and privilege. We are here to help you through the voting process — from registering and finding your voting location (or learning how…

  • Topics – Common Ground Committee

    Mary Anglade

    In our polarized country, is there room for agreement on hot button issues? Explore diverse perspectives from journalists, policymakers and citizens through multimedia content and the AllSides news feed. Get informed, explore strategies for a shared path forward, and find hope for the future.

  • Anticipating Voting Season

    Mary Anglade

    Another election season is nearly upon us. Most people tend to associate elections with casting a vote. But there’s far more that goes into being an informed voter, and an engaged citizen. The first step in becoming an educated voter is finding reliable sources of information about candidates, issues, and ballot questions.

  • White House Should Produce Debt Cancellation Cost Estimates

    Mike Murphy

    Two days after announcing executive action to cancel large amounts of student debt, the White House has failed to produce either a cost estimate or a proposal for how it would be paid for. The White House has said it is unable to provide a cost estimate due to uncertainty, and has suggested it could…

  • Megastudy Identifying Successful Interventions to Strengthen Americans’ Democratic Attitudes

    Kristin Hansen

    Deep partisan conflict in the mass public threatens the stability of American democracy. We conducted a megastudy on a national sample of American partisans (n = 32,059) testing 25 interventions designed to reduce anti-democratic attitudes and partisan animosity.  Our findings provide a toolkit of promising interventions for practitioners, and shed new theoretical light on challenges…

  • Secretary of State/Secretary of the Commonwealth

    Jillian Youngblood

    What does a Secretary of State do? That’s kind of like asking what a sandwich is – is a hamburger a sandwich? A taco? There are no simple answers. Here’s the deal: most states have a person called the Secretary of States, and in many states, this person is the chief election official. That means…