A trustworthy and enduring democracy includes all voices. It gives all serious perspectives a chance to be heard. When dialogue ends, democracy dies.
Working in partnership with RealClearPolitics (RCP), the RealClearFoundation (RCF) seeks to advance genuine dialogue in America’s public life. Not a false form of dialogue, in which deep-seated conflicts are papered over, but a true one, in which disagreements are addressed openly, honestly, and civilly.
You can see this commitment in RCF’s signature initiative, RealClearInvestigations (RCI), which treats competing positions evenhandedly and fills in gaps in news coverage, particularly when it comes to voices that would otherwise remain marginalized from mainstream discourse. To give a few examples:
In covering the rise of speech codes in professional associations, RCI interviewed proponents who think that the codes will create a fairer society, as well as those who worry that they could invite censorship of religious beliefs and controversial political and policy opinions.
