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How families navigate staying informed without becoming overwhelmed

My adult children and I are trying to figure out how to stay informed together without getting overwhelmed by information chaos but we all have different news sources and different tolerance for bad news and our family dinners have become either depressing or superficial.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The shared desire to be responsible citizens meets the individual limits of what each person can bear, fragmenting family connection in the name of democratic participation.

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“Where Are You with Technology and democracy?”

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