Despite the Tea Party's pugnacious reputation, Ribble, who attended divinity school, is soft-spoken, and is known in the House for his speeches about improving discourse between the two parties.
As we continue our cultural transition, why don't we improve the discourse by routinely using the term "hybrid" when we discuss these folks?
Many also believed that a higher baseline of scientific knowledge would improve the discourse about a number of politicized controversies, like climate change and evolution.
So how can you improve the discourse of our online habits this year?
We don't know for sure if this will help improve public discourse, but if the axiom is true that what you pay attention to is what becomes important -- and Politifact's success in getting politicians and candidates to respect facts a bit more is a testament to this -- then the more people we can get to pay attention to this, the better our chances for success.
A first set of studies shows that external collaboration scripts can improve CSCL discourse, compared to unstructured CSCL.
In the interests of improving public discourse, Battistella shared what he considers the keys to a good apology.
"In this way, fact-checking could play an important role in improving political discourse and strengthening democratic accountability".
Since false beliefs are extremely difficult to correct, I conclude by arguing that increasing the reputational costs for dishonest elites might be a more effective approach to improving democratic discourse.
"It may seem optimistic to imagine that politicians are going to drop the rhetoric about jobs," Mr. Livermore said in a conference call, "but our hope is to improve the broader discourse about environmental rule-making".
