About The Good Question Project
A small, independent site about asking better questions, and about the questions that mattered in public life.
The Good Question Project is a free guide to asking questions that get real answers. We write for people who ask questions as part of their day: reporters, teachers, managers, hiring panels, students, and residents who stand up at a microphone at a council meeting with ninety seconds to make it count.
The site has two halves. The question builder and the guides are practical. They help you prepare open questions, follow-ups and probes for a specific situation, and they flag the habits that shut conversations down, such as yes/no openings, leading phrases and two questions crammed into one. The articles look at questions in public life: the ones that changed something, the ones nobody asked in time, and the ones worth asking now.
How we write
Articles are researched from primary documents where we can find them (hearing transcripts, court opinions, government reports, peer-reviewed studies) and from established news reporting where we can't. Every article lists its sources at the end, so you can check our reading against the original.
On political subjects we try hard to be fair to every side. That means separating what is documented from what is claimed, describing each position the way its own supporters would recognize, and not telling readers how to vote or what to conclude. If you think we've got a fact wrong or described a position unfairly, please tell us. We correct errors and note the correction on the page.
We don't run ads, use affiliate links, set cookies or load analytics. The tools run in your browser and don't send what you type anywhere.
The 2026 relaunch
This site was relaunched in November 2026 under new, independent management. Between 2012 and the early 2020s the domain hosted a civic blog with the same tagline, "Did you ask a good question today?" That blog had its own author, and The Good Question Project as it exists now is not affiliated with the earlier blog's author or with any earlier owner of the domain. We don't speak for them, and none of their writing is reproduced here.
We kept the idea because we liked it: a good question is a small civic act, and anyone can practice it. The articles on this site are new, written in our own words on some of the subjects the old blog touched on, such as children's questions, nuclear launch authority, confirmation hearings and money in politics.
The Good Question Project is not affiliated with X Corp. or any other platform named on the site.
Who we are
The site is written and maintained by The Good Question Project team, a small group of editors and writers. You can reach us at contact@goodquestionproject.com.