Turning Down the Heat: Rebuilding Trust in an Age of Outrage

As the opening Signature Event of the 2026 Bridging Movement Summit, this panel conversation will bring together leading democracy experts, journalists, scholars, and civic leaders to examine the roots of America’s trust crisis.

Jeremy Hobson, host of NPR’s “The Middle,” will moderate this American Public Square Signature Event, which will be recorded in Kansas City and broadcast nationally through “The Middle,” extending the summit’s conversations to hundreds of public radio stations.

Free event, registration is required