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Talking us out of #NuclearWar

After the article, you can explore our Living Room Conversations topic guide about Nuclear Weapons here. You may have missed the news last month, buried in the Trump administration’s budget

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Getting Uncomfortable Together

Picture this: People are gathered around in the living room talking about politics. Or religion. You know, the big stuff that it seems like nobody agrees on. The people in

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Bridging the Divide

The nation is deeply at odds over politics but one woman believes simple conversations can lessen the gap. Talk to nearly any academic or pollster about the political divide between

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Bringing civil conversations to schools

By Lauren Schiller. Reprinted from Inflection Point. Liberal activist Joan Blades co-founded MoveOn.org, Moms Rising.org and Living Room Conversations.org, to provide a guide for meaningful conversations between people with different views. Now,

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A Living Room Conversation

I was raised in a Republican household and my dad was a paid speaker at Republican Conferences and events. I grew up in the 60s and have vivid memories of

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MoveOn founder, Tea Party figure meet

It was a mind-blowing political tableau: a co-founder of liberal bulwark MoveOn sitting in her Berkeley living room, laughing, sharing homemade blueberry scones and occasionally agreeing with a national Tea Party figure.

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