Welcome to OUR NATIONAL CONVERSATION, or ONC for short.
We are a group of journalists, students, established professionals and everyday citizens who want to reduce toxic partisanship and get America talking again. Our focus is on problem-solving, not finger-pointing.
Everyone is welcome here, provided they treat each other with respect and follow our journalistic guidelines (no personal attacks, no bad language, no name-calling, no misinformation, etc.). Those are the rules that apply to OUR writers.
All day long, our news aggregator will pick up and post news items from outside sources that might contain offensive language or points of view with which you disagree. We think it's important that people see, hear and understand different points of view, so we prefer to err on the side of inclusion.
You don't have to agree with these different points of view, and if you don't, we encourage you to post your own point of view so others can be exposed to a fuller range of news and opinion.
What really excites us is ONC's focus on solutions.
For the last two years, a small army of students from across America has been researching public policy challenges facing America. Young people are inheriting a very challenging world.
Our student volunteers were asked by our adult mentors to talk to experts from across the political spectrum. You will find much of our students' work in our OPINIONS and PROPOSALS sections.
The students also compiled 34 of these policy proposals into a book, "Let's Fix America," now available on Amazon. The older participants who weighed in feel strongly we need to do what we can in the time remaining to prepare the next generations to grab the baton and run with it.
You are now invited to participate. Click around, read, explore, comment, write an opinion piece. If you are smart about a public policy topic, propose a good idea intended to make America a better country
Maybe an idea you propose at ONC will turn into public policy one day. We hope elected officials and others pay attention to what we do here.
Think of ONC as part journalistic enterprise, part public policy think tank and part social movement -- all based on inclusiveness, open-mindedness, civility and a focus on solutions.
Sure, America has problems. Sure, we often disagree. But all this division has become old. What can we do to move things forward in a way most Americans will happily embrace?
Let's set aside the ugliness, the disinformation and the name-calling, at least here within the walls of our ONC community.
What do YOU propose we do to make America a better country? We look forward to hearing from you.
Want to contact us? Send an email to [email protected].
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Jeff Hall is a newspaper professional (Los Angeles Times, Kansas City Star, Brentwood News). In recent years he has gone digital (TheLatest.com, OurNationalCoversation.org). Hall is a Stanford grad, a Harvard MBA and an alumni of the White House Fellows program.
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