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Cass Sunstein: The moment I knew that US democracy was in mortal danger

Published on: 9 November 2021

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The world-leading behavourial economist used to think that warnings about the fragility of US democracy were 'crazy...

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A UK government advisor who's changed his mind about the Iraq War

Published on: 8 September 2021

Written by: The Depolarization Project All articles by The Depolarization Project

Ed Owen, an advisor to the foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq invasion, on why he now feels differently about...

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Changed My Mind: a Republican’s journey to backing criminal justice reform

Published on: 20 August 2020

Written by: The Depolarization Project All articles by The Depolarization Project

How America's broken prison system brought a staunch Democrat and Republican together.

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Daniel Finkelstein on changing political allies

Published on: 6 August 2020

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The Times associate editor and Conservative peer on why magnanimity is key to convincing people you disagree with.

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Peter Geoghegan on dark money and returning home to Ireland

Published on: 30 July 2020

Written by: The Depolarization Project All articles by The Depolarization Project

openDemocracy's investigations editor talks about how Ireland has changed since he left as a young man, and why we...

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Helen Lewis: Why I'm getting less liberal about sex work

Published on: 23 July 2020

Written by: The Depolarization Project All articles by The Depolarization Project

The journalist and author talks about how she came to question her previous beliefs in the latest episode of Changed My Mind.

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Kajal Odedra: no-platforming only ‘entrenches beliefs’

Published on: 13 July 2020

Written by: The Depolarization Project All articles by The Depolarization Project

The Change.org UK director discusses how to deal with hate speech on the latest episode of Changed My Mind.

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Black culture is mainstream – but that isn’t enough

Published on: 13 June 2020

Written by: The Depolarization Project All articles by The Depolarization Project

Cultural representation alone will not improve the lives of black people, says author Derek A. Bardowell.

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When an animal rights activist met a factory farmer

Published on: 4 June 2020

Written by: The Depolarization Project All articles by The Depolarization Project

On the latest episode of the Changed My Mind podcast, we speak to Leah Garces about finding unlikely allies.

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Changed My Mind: from Al-Qaeda bombmaker to MI6 spy

Published on: 27 May 2020

Written by: The Depolarization Project All articles by The Depolarization Project

On the latest episode, Aimen Dean talks about what prompted him to leave the terrorist group.

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Why I changed my mind about positive discrimination

Published on: 6 November 2019

Written by: The Depolarization Project All articles by The Depolarization Project

On the latest episode of the Changed My Mind podcast, a social psychologist talks about how his research challenged...

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