Creating a More Perfect Union

• Editor's Note

  by William McKenzie, Senior Editorial Advisor and Editor of The Catalyst

Making Washington Work

• Courageous Leadership and Common Sense Can Make Washington Work

  A Catalyst Conversation with Joe Lieberman and Will Hurd

• Congress Can Break Through Polarization. Here's How.

  Essay by Holly Kuzmich, Executive Director of the Bush Institute

• Healing Starts with Leadership — Including Our Own

  Essay by Kenneth A. Hersh, President and CEO of the George W. Bush Presidential Center

Resolving Conflicts

• Creating Common Good: Agree to Disagree

  Essay by Eva Chiang, Managing Director of Leadership and Programming at the Bush Institute

• Why Are We Friends?

  A Conversation Between a Progressive and a Conservative

• Combating Political Violence

  Interview with Rachel Kleinfeld, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• The Catalyst Review: Strategies for Working Through High Conflict

  Essay by Anne Wicks, the Ann Kimball Johnson Director of Education and Opportunity

• Changing How We View and Use Social Media is Key in Fighting Polarization

  Essay by Peyton Webb, The Catalyst’s Editorial Assistant and SMU Senior

Strengthening Communities

• Creating Common Ground in Tense, Difficult Situations

  Interview with David Brown, Leadership Fellow at the Bush Institute and Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department

• Achieving Large Goals

  Short Essays from Three U.S. Mayors

• Universities Can – and Should – Strengthen the Common Good

  Interview with Mitch Daniels, President of Purdue University and the former Governor of Indiana

• Rebuilding Local Social Capital Will Help Repair America's Divisions

  Essay by Cullum Clark, Director of the George W. Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative

• Stopping Violence Against Women Stabilizes Nations and Communities

  Essay by Natalie Gonnella-Platts, Director of Women's Advancement at the Bush Institute