PDF accompanying O'Rourke article in Atlantic Monthly
First set of articles located by students
Kim Stakal (also selected by Chris Schilling, Daniel Bishop)
Liz Marlantes, Inside red-and-blue America: Part one of five: A look at America's polarized electorate
Christian Science Monitor, July 14, 2004. http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0714/p01s03-usgn.html
Sara Murphy - Two articles from BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4176247.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/world/americas/3658172.stm
Judy Torres
Torri Foxcroft, ed. Is America Divided? News 24.com 11 April 04 http://www.news24.com/News24/World/US_Elections/0,,2-10-1665_1615614,00.html
Jayme Moehle
Nagourney, Adam and Elder, Janet. "Public Voicing Doubts on Iraq and the Economy, Poll Finds" The New York Times. 1/20/05
Kia Michalegko (also selected by Morgan Brandon)
One Fate, Two Fates, Red States, Blue States, Phil Patton, AIGA Online Journal of Design, Sept. 24, 2004
http://journal.aiga.org/content.cfm?ContentAlias=_getfullarticle&aid=732039
Barbara Niechciol
Steve Schifferes, Analysis: Bush's Divided Nation, BBC News,
1/18/2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4176247.stm
Marlantes, Liz, "A Deepening Divide Between Red and Blue”, The Christian Science Monitor, November 4, 2004, http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1104/p01s02-uspo.html (accessed January 22, 2005)
Christopher Schilling (Also selected by Kim Stakal, Daniel Bishop)
Liz Marlantes, Inside Red and Blue America, Christian Science Monitor, July 14 2004
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0714/p01s03-usgn.html
Rachel Pepper
John Tierney,"A Nation Divided? Who says?", New York Times, 6/13/04
link here (found in Lexis/Nexis, but link not stable)
Julie Clark
Liz Marlantes, "The Continental Divide",Christian Science Monitor, vol. 96, issue 170
July 14, 2004. link here. Found on EBSCO, link not stable.
Mandy Nelson
Steven Pearlstein, Red Sates Make a Mockery of Self-Reliance, Washington Post, Jan 18, 2005 :E01.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19566-2005Jan18.html?sub=new followed
Jennifer DiGirolamo
A Closer Look At The Red/Blue Cultural Divide: It Is Mostly Hokum. By JOHN W. DEAN
[no source given] http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20041203.html
Marissa Collum
Tolson, Jay. "How Deep the Divide?", U.S. News and World Report, Vol. 137, Iss. 14, 10/25/2004: pg 42-47.
http://www.lib.siu.edu in EBSCO
"sag743@siu.edu" <sag743@siu.edu> (no name given)
(no title, author, or source provided) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_state-blue_state_divide
Beautifulfire03@aol.com
(no title, author, or source provided) http://writ.findlaw.com/dean/20041203.html
Daniel Bishop (also selected by Chris Schilling, Kim Stakal)
Liz Marlantes, Inside red-and-blue America. The Christian Science Monitor
http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2004/0714/p01s03-usgn.htm
Morgan Brandon (also selected by Kia Michalegko)
(no title, author, or source provided) http://journal.aiga.org/content.cfm?ContentAlias=_getfullarticle&aid=732039
Khadidja Arfi
Across the red-blue divide: How to start a conversation
Toning down our opinions will ratchet up our understanding - and the welfare of the nation, By Daniel Yankelovich. The Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1015/p10s02-coop.html
(also available on the course website)
See the whole Christian Science Monitor series "Talking with the Enemy"
LINKS TO THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES CAN BE FOUND THROUGH THIS LINK
http://www.csmonitor.com/commentary/conversations.html
Commentary -Talking With the Enemy
A series to help Americans bridge the bitter red-blue divide.
Latest in the series:
12/23/04 : Opinion
Gridlock impossible at 'kitchen table'
'Collaborative governance' gives all parties with a stake in a public problem a say in how to resolve it.
11/26/04 : Opinion
Polarized? Not in my backyard
Walking through my red and blue neighborhood, we don't stop to hash out gay marriage.
11/02/04 : Opinion
Talking about 'Talking with the Enemy'
In response to the Monitor's recent series, readers weigh in on America's polarized climate.
10/26/04 : The Monitor's View
The Art of Political Listening
The Monitor's 'Talking With the Enemy' series showed how civil discourse is possible.
Spiritual perspectives:
10/26/04 : A spiritual perspective
What we all have in common
Bringing a spiritual perspective to daily life.
10/25/04 : A spiritual perspective
Bridging a divide
Bringing a spiritual perspective to daily life.
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The original series:
Introduction
Across the red-blue divide
Toning down our opinions will ratchet up our understanding - and the welfare of the nation.
Part 1 of 8
9/11 commission brings heat, but also light
Dinners together, humor, rejecting a lot of advice, and a united front against partisan temptation.
Part 2 of 8
Bush-contempt, Kerry-scorn: Is it 'hate thought'?
Intense anger satisfies a lust for absolute certainty, but it erodes the possibility of political compromise
Part 3 of 8
A political odd couple's advice on finding common ground
Don't demonize your opponents or let them demonize you - ignorance of each other stops discourse.
Part 4 of 8
At heart of good political discussion: the idea
In such a polarized election, how do we even talk? We might take a cue from ... the French.
Part 5 of 8
Nasty politics? Puhleez! Get a historic grip.
Politics for our parents' generation was just as boisterous, nasty, and over the top as it is today for Americans.
Part 6 of 8
We need higher quality outrage
With all the shouting over politics, we have less genuine opposition - the kind that is the bedrock of democracy.
Part 7 of 8
Humanity is not red or blue
A religious leader's view on the American divide: Conflict and civility on an issue are not mutually exclusive.
Part 8 of 8
How to break the argument habit
Whatever side of the blue-red chasm you sit on, dialogue can clear the smoke of polarization obscuring the divide.