Communication scholar and local elected official, Rebecca Townsend, revisits a strange and revealing moment in the 1990s when a small Massachusetts town debated Nigeria’s military polic...

What happens when a classroom discussion about immigration sparks not one argument, but several...plus a disagreement inside the professor herself? In this episode, ...

What happens when “iron sharpens iron” turns into something more damaging? Timothy Shaffer,  the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Chair of Civil Discourse and director of the

Lori Britt, communication scholar and director of the Institute for Constructive Advocacy & Dialogue at

Trained to resolve conflict and build bridges, Janett Cordoves, the senior program director at the Institute for Citizens and...

Elizabeth Matto, director of Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute of Politics, traces a peaceful family disagreement over voting rights ...

Alys Campaigne, the Southern Environmental Law Center's climate initiative leader, reflects on three decades of climate advcocacy, where the same arguments keep resurfacing even as ...

Derick Brown, the chief advancement and strategic partnerships officer of the YMCA of San Francisco, shares the lif...

Leila Brammer, the curriculum director for the Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression at the University of Chicago, used to d...

Dan McCarthy, who edits Modern Age, thinks that what many believe to be “good” democratic citizenship is completely unreal...

During this holiday season, we are re-releasing some of our most popular episodes about conflict in relationships from the archive. A Thanksgiving blowup in 1989 shattered one family and shaped a lifetime of how

Nick Longo shares the origin story behind Providence College's “dialogue walls

Joseph Uscinski pushes back hard on the widespread claim that consp...

As we approach the holidays, When We Disagree is re-releasing episodes about tough conversations with friends and family. This week's episodes are both about arguing with friends about conspiracy theories. When communication professor ...

As we approach the holidays, When We Disagree is re-releasing episodes about tough conversations with friends and family. This week's episodes are both about arguing with friends about conspiracy theories. When college student Victor D...

When does government transparency actually build trust—and when does it backfire? Todd Glover is the executive director of the Municipal Association of South Carolina. A former city manager...

When Lia Howard, the director of the Political Empathy Lab at Penn, took seven undergrads across 2,...

What happens when a conversation changes you—but the other person never knows? University of Virginia professor Rachel Wahl shares her

In this episode of When We Disagree, political philosopher Daniel Layman dives into his

Chris Lundberg, professor of Communication at UNC and the founder and CEO of Vocable Communications, asks what it really mea...

Jon Sklaroff, a podcast and public media professional, comes in hot with a controversial claim: there’s only one true pizza — New York style. A lighthearted food debat...

Julie Rose - journalist, radio host, and creator of the weekly shows Top of Mind and Uncomfy - shares the deep...

What happens when a dialogue expert loses his cool? Vince Greer, Associate Dean of Students and Director of Dialogue & Belonging at Claremont McKenna College...

Mary Kate Cary is a former White House speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush and a lecturer at the University of Virginia, where she teaches Democracy Out Loud a course on great American speeches. In this episode, Cary explores ...

Jordan Pace represents District 117 in the South Carolina House of Representatives and serves as Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. Pace recounts how his political conversion—from an ardent pro–Bush-Cheney neoconservative teenager to a liber...