Readers offer insights into how to calm a difficult political conversation. Another in our special project on civility.
Cardinal Way
Cardinal Way is a project to promote civil discourse between people in our community, even if they disagree.
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How to defuse a political argument at the Thanksgiving table
We can’t model our dinnertime conversations after cable news programming.
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Uncle Joe’s crazy rant is not a threat, and you can’t fix it
Dana Ackley is an expert in building emotional quotient (EQ) skills and the author of “The EQ Leader Program Manual.” Here’s his perspective on Thanksgiving.
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We are ‘hiding behind social media identities so that we don’t have to be civil’
That’s one of the responses we got to our original installment of a project on restoring civility.
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Each of us has the power to bridge the great partisan divide
The Cardinal Way: Civility Rules is an experiment to see if people in our part of Virginia can lower the heat and talk about hot-button issues.
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We’re dangerously polarized as a nation. That won’t be fixed locally.
Today we embark on a project to promote civility called The Cardinal Way: Civility Rules. It’s an experiment to see if people in our part of Virginia can lower the heat and talk about hot-button issues. It’s a good idea that won’t work.