CivX Now
With input from more than 7,000 educators and education supporters,CivX Now has literally put K-12 civics on the map, a crowdsourced geography intended to point the way to the ultimate destination...
31 May, 2019
The $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan: Lots of Rhetoric. No Reality.
The real problem with the nation's infrastructure isn't our bridges, our roads, our grids, our mass transit systems, or our dams...
28 May, 2019
India’s Teachable Moment
For the past six weeks, the world's largest representative democracy has been showing the world's oldest how it's done...
22 May, 2019
An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
The greatest untapped resource to deal with all of America's problems, including the divisions between us, is Americans...
17 May, 2019
21st Century Citizenship, May 2019: Engagement
The bright side of our current political environment is that there has been a renewed focus on civic engagement. In this edition we highlight selected activities in this emerging era of 21st century citizenship...
05 May, 2019
India: Enfranchise NRIs
It's time for the world's largest democracy to get larger, all over the world...
03 May, 2019
District Builder
With District Builder, we, the people, are starting to crowdsource the redistricting process right out of the backrooms (in PA and beyond) and into the light, even beyond the electoral process entirely...
03 May, 2019
GiveDirectly
What if we just gave the poor money instead of creating programs to help them? GiveDirectly has been doing just that for more than a decade with surprising results...
03 May, 2019
Dan Price
In 2016, CEO Dan Price took a dramatic pay cut to insure every employee in his company was making at least $70,000. Three years later, business is booming, and he's helping mom-and-pops take on the "unbridled capitalism" of Amazon...
03 May, 2019
Good Citizenship: The Test for Our Times
The subject that originated public education has the highest stakes of all, and states like Massachusetts and Illinois are illuminating the path back to the future, aided and abetted by a plethora of new 21st century resources...
01 May, 2019