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Could You Save American Democracy? Stanford Researchers Lead 'Strengthening Democracy Challenge'

Recommended Reading / August 2nd, 2021 / By Jennifer Auer

The public has a new opportunity to test their hypotheses about how to strengthen U.S. democracy — all while potentially winning thousands of dollars. Stanford University and collaborators are inviting submissions to the crowdsourced Strengthening Democracy Challenge . Submissions must be...

United News Roundup, Culture, Democracy

Growing older makes me a fatalist. Having kids makes me an activist.

Bias / September 20th, 2019 / By Kristin Hansen

When one turns fifty, as I recently did, one’s sense of mortality inches insidiously closer. As for me, I crossed this symbolic age threshold determined to embrace, rather than resist, life’s unforgiving lesson that all things eventually die. While savoring all that the present has to...

Climate Change, Activism, Democracy

America Needs Marriage Counseling

Bias / April 19th, 2019 / By Kristin Hansen

This video and commentary originally appeared on National Conversation Project's #ListenFirstFriday project. A recent academic study found that America is now more politically polarized than at the end of the Reconstruction Era, following the Civil War. An even more recent opinion piece...

civil dialogue, civil discourse, Democracy, poliitcal polarization

Students Meet Their Political "Other" Using Mismatch by AllSides

Bias / April 11th, 2019 / By Clara Nevins

Our current, polarized political landscape is reverberating through our classrooms. Today's students are tomorrow's leaders, and we are counting on them to forge a more positive path that is less divisive and less dysfunctional. How can teachers prepare students with the skills and...

Bias, Bridging America's Divide, bridging divides, Democracy, Mismatch, AllSides for Schools, Education

Missing Perspectives: What's more important, democracy or limited government?

News / July 18th, 2016 / By Beth Ballentine

Though the answer is vitally important to our freedom and our way of life, this isn’t a question most Americans would ever consider. So what’s more important? Perhaps your first reaction is that democracy should always prevail. But should majority opinion always be what drives our laws?...

Democracy, Government, Big government, FDR

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Could You Save American Democracy? Stanford Researchers Lead 'Strengthening Democracy Challenge'

Growing older makes me a fatalist. Having kids makes me an activist.

America Needs Marriage Counseling

Students Meet Their Political "Other" Using Mismatch by AllSides

Missing Perspectives: What's more important, democracy or limited government?