Platforms like Facebook and Twitter can feel like battlefields where it’s hard for us to convince one another to set down our weapons long enough to understand a different experience or perspective. Opportunities to talk at each other are so common, and the energy to really listen is so limited, that it can feel like we’re spending most of our online time on the defense. Meanwhile, bad news seems worse than ever, and some days it seems like the only way to cope with the sensational headlines and endless tweets and posts about death and destruction around the world is to ignore them. In a world
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