gears of democracy

A lack of meaningful engagement among Americans representing opposing views has created and sustained polarization.

Today, communities of color face a battle to uphold civil rights that have been abridged through online platforms. The opportunity, well-being, and liberty of Black and Brown Americans is intensified or denied as emerging technologies transform our society.

All of this is about making sure that we’re bringing people with us on this journey towards achieving equity and making sure that it’s pragmatic and that it’s relevant and useful.

Hear from athletes moving the bar on social justice. Restoring trust in the institutions that have let us down. A tribal elder shares her experiences fighting for civil rights. America’s goalie won’t give up on equal pay. Plus, trail breakers and a special performance.

Elections in a democracy are just as much about convincing the loser that he or she actually lost—and that the process was free, fair, and secure enough that the loser can accept the result as legitimate.

There is hope in a malfunctioning gear. Its constant creaking alerts us to a problem and helps pinpoint the source.

The solutions to climate change that we learn about as young people have been inadequate or nonexistent.

Today is National Religious Freedom Day, the anniversary of the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, a statute written by Thomas Jefferson disestablishing the Church of England in Virginia, and an important precursor to the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.

Getting out the Indigenous vote can be challenging. Policymaking around voting issues needs to be more fair to Native interests.

The political media did almost everything wrong in covering the theft-and-leak of John Podesta’s private emails amid the heat of the 2016 presidential campaign, four years ago today—and yet it’s not at all clear that if confronted by an operation similar to what Russian intelligence executed in targeting the Democratic National Committee via Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, that we’d get it any more right now.