Putting Down the Phone

by | Sep 15, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress

Gabby Giffords and Jeff Flake at USAT: Kirk’s supporters are angry – we all are – but in this perilous moment, elected officials wield outsized influence on whether the justified anger at the assassin transforms into malice toward fellow Americans. At a moment when...

Spencer Cox: Man of the Hour

by | Sep 13, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Utah

Last year, Governor Spencer Cox received the Dreier Roundtable Civility Award. Natasha Korecki, Matt Dixon, Allan Smith and Jonathan Allen at NBC: At a news conference in the days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah, Gov. Spencer Cox took to the podium to...

Factions

by | Jul 16, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Federalist, Madison, Polarization

Jay Cost at AEI: There are many reasons for the dramatic rise in partisanship at the end of the 1820s, mainly related to economic diversification and rapid democratization. The number of voters had more than doubled between the elections of 1800 and 1820, and while an...

David Gergen, RIP

by | Jul 14, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Civility

At With Honor, Rye Barcott reflects on the legacy of David Gergen: Leadership at its best is service to others.   If this were a ranked-order list, this might be the first bullet for David’s advice on leadership, though it is also fitting as the last....