Welcome to the core of Reality Check: the Dialogue Groups.

The main topic on Reality Check is the impeachment proceedings in Congress -- and the media's role in covering and commenting on them.

The Dialogue Groups on this site have been developed as an experiment in creating alternative models for meaningful on-line dialogue and community building. (You can read more about their history and the thinking behind them in What Is Reality Check?).

Each Dialogue Group will contain a small, limited number of conversants, who initially agree to participate for four weeks. Four weeks is our best guess of an optimal time for people to get to know each other without "burning out." (It would help us to know if you're interested in participating in a group, but can't make a four-week commitment. If so, please click here.) At the end of the four weeks a group's members can decide to extend its life.

While the dialogues are available to the public for reading, only members can initiate new topics of conversation or respond to others in their group. Reality Check might suggest topics of conversation but in the end the discussion is completely determined by the members and their interests. New groups are opening all the time.

Want a taste of what's going on in the dialogue groups, but don't have the time to search out the highpoints? This section highlights some of the more interesting / inspiring posts or exchanges. It will be updated frequently.

If you've already been assigned to a Reality Check discussion group, you can enter your group here.

Not ready to join your own discussion group, or simply interested in watching the conversation unfold? Then enter here to observe the dialogue groups in action.