Welcome to More in Common

We seek to understand the forces driving us apart, find common ground, and help bring Americans together to tackle our shared challenges.

We develop evidence-based solutions to disrupt the dynamics of polarization.

We work with leaders across America to bring these solutions to life.

More in Common is a nonprofit organization that publishes research, builds strategies, and works in partnership with leaders and organizations throughout the United States. We help these partners bring Americans together across differences to engage meaningfully in our civil and cultural life.

In addition to the US, More in Common has teams in France, Germany, Poland, the UK, and most recently Brazil.

Research

We see the world through a people-centered lens: an approach that builds on insights in social psychology and behavioral science to study not just what Americans think, but why. We have engaged more than sixty thousand Americans in surveys, conversations, focus groups and one-on-one interviews.

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Consulting

We provide strategic consulting and communications services  to national, state, and local organizations, including nonprofits, businesses, media, philanthropy, and faith groups. We design and undertake research to help organizations successfully navigate polarized issues.

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Fieldbuilding

We help with one of America’s most urgent needs: equipping leaders willing to do the hard work of transcending our divisions. Through convenings, trainings, and surprising collaborations, we inspire and equip Americans with the skills and know-how to navigate polarization and find common ground.

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Speaking

Members of the More in Common team are available to speak in the media, on podcasts, at public conferences, webinars and other events to share insights and bring a realistic but hopeful message about how we can bring Americans back together.

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In a time when all we hear about is what divides us, we help build stories of ‘a bigger us.’  

MIC Reports and Publications

More Reports

Current Events, American Identity

20 January 2026

Beyond MAGA: A Profile of the Trump Coalition

There is an image at the heart of American politics: a sea of red-hat-wearing MAGA supporters at a Trump campaign rally, representing the millions of Americans who voted for him over the past three elections — 63 million in 2016, 74 million in 2020, and 77 million in 2024. Yet this image is misleading. President Trump has built a coalition, not a cult. This coalition shares many common concerns, from unregulated immigration to progressive overreach to American decline. But it also contains groups with distinct identities, competing priorities, and clashing worldviews. And while there is a strong core of ardent Trump supporters whose identity is wrapped up in the MAGA movement, they represent a minority: only 38 percent of Trump voters say that being MAGA is important to them.

Current Events, American Identity

14 August 2026

Civil Dialogue in Higher Education: Exploring How Students and Faculty Think

Dialogue across differences and free speech on college campuses have become hot button issues in American public life. More in Common partnered with the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to understand how students, faculty, and the public actually perceive dialogue and free expression in higher education.

Current Events, Social Connection

08 September 2026

Sports Fandom: Pathway to Community Belonging

Produced in partnership with FOX Sports, this report examines the relationship between sports fandom and community belonging, and asks where the connections that come with fandom most often happen. We surveyed 5,572 US adults from May 28-June 11, 2026 and paired that data with a qualitative panel of 210 Americans who answered open-ended questions about sports in their own words. This report traces fandom outward from the individual, to the people around them, and to the communities and social networks that sports touches.

In the News

Whether it’s on the front page of the New York Times, on Fox News, in the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post or in local media – More in Common’s work has been cited thousands of times.

MIC In the News

Media Coverage

05 July 2026

The unraveling of Trump’s MAGA — or is it?

NJ.com

04 July 2026

We Hate to Break It to You, but Maybe We’re Not That Polarized

The New York Times

29 June 2026

What does Gen Z think about political polarization?

Stanford Report

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