Common Ground with Jane Whitney

Silver Linings Playbook

How to save democracy? What each one of us can do to fight Climate Change. How Racism shapes our country. America’s place in the world? How the pandemic forced us to reimagine our hopes and dreams and reassess our priorities as individuals and as a nation? These are some of the conundrums debated on this Common Ground bonus show, a compilation of last season’s programs.

Silver Linings Playbook

56m 46s

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    Back To Tomorrow: Better Than The Best

    S3 E313 - 56m 46s

    Common Ground with Jane Whitney serves as a bridge in a polarized era. Focusing on vital issues like democracy, Supreme Court politicization, social media vitriol, racism, and climate change, the series showcases past moments where panelists engage, share insights, and unite to address the nation's pressing problems, fostering a path forward.

  • Presidential Politics: Surviving The Cycle: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Presidential Politics: Surviving The Cycle

    S3 E312 - 56m 46s

    American elections face unprecedented threats post-January 6 insurrection. The electoral system's foundation wavers as candidates contest results, biased officials emerge and millions question certified outcomes. A panel delves into the electoral system's fate, the two-party system's future, national disenfranchisement, and the rise of performative politics risking constitutional guarantees.

  • Reality Bites Back: America’s Trip Down Fantasy Lane: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Reality Bites Back: America’s Trip Down Fantasy Lane

    S3 E311 - 56m 46s

    A diverse panel from across the political spectrum discusses how the country, which once elevated science into the unofficial national religion, came to accept the parasitic oxymoron of “alternate facts” and how so many of us have come to live in an impenetrable bubble that elevates ill-considered opinion into intractable certitude.

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