Use this POST DATE ORDERED BLOG for Colleague Activities posts. Individual entries can be drawn from links to information about colleague activities posted elsewhere on the web or from write-ups that we have done and posted on BI (see "MBI Core Content Basic Pages" coded as "Seminar/Discussion: College Activities") NOTE: Entries need to be made for all existing Colleague Activity posts using the same Title and Facebook-Length Summary. 

Democratic Erosion Consortium.

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The Consortium is a collaboration between academics, students, policymakers, and practitioners that aims to help illuminate and combat threats to democracy both in the US and abroad.

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For Campus Protests (and Other Polarizing Issues), Do We Often See What We Expect To Find?

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It is important to recognize the ease with which we can disagree, as well as to engage with others with empathy and compassion, even though such a request is often difficult when it comes to contentious and emotional topics.

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‘Christian Nationalism,’ ‘Never-Trumpers’ and Other Biased Terms This Election Season

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Catchy terms are often polarizing and exaggerated, making them common in popular tabloids and on social media. This makes it easier for media consumers to get trapped in filter bubbles.

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Aches, Pains, and Alternative Facts. Do the stories you tell yourself help you or hurt you?

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The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about others determine the quality of our relationships with them.

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Understanding Pro-Democracy Conservatives

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This report by the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University explores the contours of a conservative pro-democracy movement in the current American political landscape

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The Horizon's Project New Race and Democracy Portolio

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Julia Roig,and Jarvis William's,new focus on race and democracy and their goal of supporting partners to break down siloes to place racial equity and racial healing at the center of our pro-democracy organizing.

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