The Middle with Jeremy Hobson

Live from Kansas City: Rebuilding Trust in an Age of Outrage

The Middle with Jeremy Hobson

Show Notes

On this special episode of The Middle, we're coming to you from Kansas City in partnership with American Public Square and The Listen First Project to talk about what can be done to restore America's fraying social trust and turn down the heat on our political discourse.With trust in our institutions, media, and even each other at historic lows, we explore how we got here and what it would actually take to rebuild trust.Jeremy is joined by Mike Abrams, deputy editor of Trust at The New York Times; Jummy Banjo, senior director of the Alliance for Social Trust at the Aspen Institute and Branden Polk, director of activations at Stand Together.

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