So many movements for change have their roots in American federalism. Open States lets you seek out and participate in the beginnings of the next next waves by putting every state legislature and its activities at your fingertips...
There's no better way to "follow the money," both big and small--and stop in its tracks the purchase of our government--than the Center For Responsive Politics' Open Secrets...
How's Russia is trying to subvert our democracy today? The Alliance for Securing Democracy tracks hundreds of Russian bots/trolls, and aggregates all the latest disinformation campaigns...
Created in 2011 by the immigrant founder of eBay, the bipartisan Democracy Fund is investing in organizations working to insure that our political system can withstand all challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people...
PBS-style fundraising gets a jolt of fresh energy on Crowdrise, a spunky platform that uses teams, points, leaderboards, contests, and more to help engaged citizens raise billions, and have fun doing it...
Kids are storming the courts and so can you, by contributing to crowdfunded public interest lawsuits against gerrymandering, water pollution, transgender discrimination, and more...
The Conversation is seeking to rebuild public trust in expertise by translating academic research into accessible prose, with all potential conflicts disclosed. 76,000 scholars around the world are already participating, and more than 10 million readers are listening to what they have to say...
TED Talks get real: Disrupting bail, building the largest farmer network in Africa, digitally empowering community health workers--TED's taking the biggest ideas crossing their transom and putting money behind them--$406M at last count--yours could be next...
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman has been the lead mapper of the hidden hard-wired biases that fool we, the people, over and over again.School Of Thought has distilled these down to a point where K-6 educators could teach kids how to avoid them...
One of the longest, most painstaking, and ironic arcs in American history has been voting rights--apres Parkland, could kids be next to get them? A coalition of K-12 civics groups is working to make it so...
