Daryl Davis
For decades, Daryl Davis has been reaching out over the hardest and highest barriers of all in daily American life...
22 March, 2019
Jackie Corin
Meet Jackie Corin, the teenage organizational mastermind behind the Parkland kids' efforts to change the course of our elections, and with them the terms of debate over gun control...
22 March, 2019
Aleita Cook
17-year old Aleita Cook is taking on the federal government over a rebuilding essential for our democracy--universal K-12 civic education--and, in the process, illuminating stark and dangerous disparities in what is being passed on to generation next about our nation...
22 March, 2019
Steve Case
Revolution's Steve Case is seeking to spread high tech investment far beyond Silicon Valley, leveraging the strengths of the forgotten small cities and towns all across America the 21st century's been leaving behind...
22 March, 2019
Jeff Bulington
One of the last groups some still seem to feel it's OK to make the butt of jokes are poor white rural southerners, but after a unique teacher from Memphis, Tennessee made a pilgrimage to Mississippi, no one's laughing anymore...
22 March, 2019
William Boyajian
Those street musicians on the corner may not be who you think, at least not in New York City, thanks to an immigrant from a small town in upstate New York...
22 March, 2019
Ally Bain
The 14 year old from the Chicago suburbs who turned a moment of shame and embarrassment into sweeping change across the country...
22 March, 2019
Opportunity Zones?
Tucked into the tax bill were extensive breaks for companies who build in "opportunity zones." We explore whether their promise is as gaseous as their contraction, and what would put them on more solid footing...
15 March, 2019
Doing Universal Basic Income Right
A universal basic income is a good idea for India, but it needs to be tested, not become a political test match...
09 March, 2019
21st Century Citizenship, Mar 2019: Techtopia
The Greek root for "-topia" is "topos," which just means "place," as in "topography." As we map the future, whether technology will produce a utopia, a dystopia, or just what a techtopia is generically--a technology place, a world of tech--is very much in human hands...
03 March, 2019