CategoriesBlogA Starting Point, BridgeUSA to Co-Host a National, Bipartisan Student Discussion Oct. 20, 2020 San Francisco, CA — A Starting Point (ASP) and BridgeUSA have partnered with university systems across […]
CategoriesBlogThis discussion features three Bridge members from around the country and was hosted on Discord. To protect the privacy of our members, we’ve used only their first initial, Chapter location, […]
CategoriesBlogBy Ilina Kabra I have always been passionate about Human Rights. Ever since I was a little kid, I always wondered why inequalities exist and why people cannot accept one […]
CategoriesBlogBy Jessica Carpenter We have seen them more often now leading up to November 3rd. Billboard signs, social media posts, celebrity endorsements, commercials all pointing to one similar message: Vote. […]
CategoriesBlogWhy ‘Karen’ memes and “OK, Boomer” insults stereotype people we don’t really know By Chloé Johnston Show a people as one thing, and only one thing over and over again, […]
CategoriesBlogBy Amanda Shafer The American political system is not living up to its highest ideals. Our government is gridlocked, and our citizenry is divided across party and cultural lines. Countless […]
CategoriesBlog“Upon graduating high school, my enthusiasm for college was noticeably brimming. I was finally going to be surrounded by peers who shared the passion to explore and investigate ideas and […]
CategoriesBlogDuring spring term last year, some students and I knocked on office doors in the college of liberal arts reaching out to instructors to help us as faculty advisers with no […]
CategoriesBlogOne of our brand new chapter’s, BridgeKU, was recognized in local media for their mission to stimulate ideologically diverse conversations on campus. BridgeKU is committed to facilitating discussions as a […]
CategoriesBlogPolitical conversation or the ASU-Stanford football game? 175 chose conversation. It’s a Thursday night at Arizona State University, and 42,000 people are packed into Sun Devil Football Stadium to watch […]
CategoriesBlogI was never interested in politics growing up. I went out of my way to ignore them and convinced myself it was a boring conversation that should be left to […]
Born as son of East-German and Chinese immigrants, I heard firsthand about the boundaries that communist regimes placed on their lives – being forced into an occupation, being unable to […]
CategoriesBlogMy name is Grace and I am a junior at the UC Berkeley, double majoring in American Politics and Legal Studies. I grew up in rural Northern California as the […]
CategoriesBlog“I come from a very divided family, both politically and otherwise, my mom from a liberal SoCal household and my dad, a conservative Floridian home. Though I saw my dad’s […]
CategoriesBlog“I grew up in a divided household that was unafraid of political conversation. My mother preferred watching one news channel and my father preferred watching another, so each night I […]
