 guessing the hot topics are what's in the news so how do we approach talking about politics and social issues that tend to be divisive and how do you do that in the workplace specifically in a few minutes i will talk to two guests who work with clients to teach them how to handle contentious conversations our discussion is part of our series here at npr news called talking sense that's an election year project from npr news that aims to help minnesotans have hard political conversations better we'll start right after news