Justice & Civic Identity

The Inclusive America Project gathered local Chicago faith leaders, organizers, philanthropic leaders, and public officials for a meeting at the Upswell Conference to highlight the civic engagement work they were each doing and to get a better sense of what they needed in order to do that work.

How can this deeply faithful group rally behind a president whose behaviors and values don’t exactly match up to traditional Christian mores?

Last summer, concerned by the rise in hate crimes, religious bias, and broader social fragmentation, the Aspen Institute Inclusive America project gathered together a cross-sectoral group of leaders to discuss this critical anchoring question:  what does the field of religious pluralism look like, and how can those invested in that priority work together toward the achievement of that national vision?

Ibram X. Kendi says to be able to recognize racism we need to define it and then understand it’s opposite: antiracism.

Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield delivered the below remarks at the Institute’s 36th Annual Awards Dinner on Thursday, November 14, 2019 in New York City.

What Every American Should Know (WEASK), an initiative of the Aspen Institute’s Program on Citizenship and American Identity (CAI) was sta

On this week’s episode of Aspen Insight, host Amina Akhtar speaks with two women integral to the success of Vital Voices Central America: Maria Pacheco and Alexandra Kissling.

Joan Biskupic discusses the dynamic of the Supreme Court and Chief Justice Roberts’ great influence on it.

Author and historian Ibram X. Kendi says there is no such thing as a racist bone, even metaphorically.