New research finds that your peers—including your opponents—will respect your integrity if you speak emphatically about the social issues that matter to you.
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New research finds that adopting an opponent's perspective on a charged issue can harden our original position.
Attempts at coalition building won't succeed by eliding or erasing our cultural and ideological differences, but, instead, by embracing them.
A new generation of biotechnology crops designed to appeal to consumers is likely to radically change the controversy over GMOs.
Now it's time to have a better public debate.
Did the Clinton campaign really use a disgraced right-wing magazine from the '90s to go after Obama?