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Hello, and welcome to the excerpt. I'm Michael McCarter. In the aftermath of the last November's hotly

contested elections, Americans were deeply divided. Partisan rhetoric was tearing communities apart with

disrespectful and sometimes even hateful speech. And we thought to ourselves, there must be a better

way for Americans to talk to each other,

to disagree in a more civilized way while respectfully hearing the perspectives of the other side.

So we created Forum, a new series from USA Today's opinion team dedicated to showcasing views from across the political spectrum on issues that Americans are

starkly divided on. Turns out, our little experiment is working. Here to share more on how readers and

listeners have been responding to this new initiative, I'm now joined by Casey Blake, Senior Voices

Editor for the USA Today Network. Casey is one of a handful of folks who conceives of and

puts together the weekly forum package. Thanks for joining us on the excerpt, Casey.

Thanks so much for having me. Happy to be here. You were in on the ground floor, helping to shape

forum from the start. What is forum and what were your initial goals? First things first, I have to say, I can't

overstate what a team effort. This has been my fellow voices editor, Joel, our audience editors,

Louis and Janessa, have just been working so hard and are so brilliant and making sure that

we're giving readers what we want on this. So I have to give all the kudos to them. But, you know,

the initial goal really was to

create a space where readers could hear each other out in their own words in a format that sounded

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