There is a recurring complaint in America about the degree of partisanship in our politics, and the lack of dialogue between differing viewpoints. It needs to be said that partisanship is neither new nor more extreme than in the past. What is perhaps new is the lack of agreement as to the facts, and the unwillingness to listen to the other side.

The idea for this web site is imagine what such a dialogue might look like — where conservatives can speak to progressives, and progressives can speak to conservatives. I seeded it with a few items that I thought might be provocative, but never made it public…