Americans are more polarized than ever. A lot of people have come to think of politics as a war of arguments between Left and Right, and have almost lost the ability to process political information in other terms. Research says the internet, making it easy for people to form echo chambers, is largely to blame. One fix is to set up a politics/news site that are objective and above the fray (like Vox, which claims to "explain the news"). But inevitably that site becomes associated with a "side" (the left, in Vox's case). Then everything they publish is attacked by outlets on the other side, the readers segregate, and we're back to square one. Banter takes the opposite approach. It's a wiki for politics that presents issues as the trees of partisan arguments they really are, so that the user is sort of forced to learn arguments from both sides at once. Check it out, contribute to the discussion, and help us make the internet a better place.



