Walls talk. And they tell us we're endlessly repeating mistakes even as much of our common heritage falls to the wrecking ball. In Abandoned America they get finally their chance to speak...

New venture AHire is bringing together researchers and thought leaders to wrestle through the key questions, challenges, and opportunities raised by the rise of artificial intelligence...

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 mon...

The Better Life Index considers the widest variety of factors in determining national health, and lets users decide which factors are the most important to them in determining the results......

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 al...

The first community-based political incubator, synthesizing the best of liberal and conservative ideals with technology and history to generate applications & actions for the post-modern era...

Kids are storming the courts and so can you, by contributing to crowdfunded public interest lawsuits against gerrymandering, water pollution, transgender discrimination, and more...

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 ...

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 it...

A team of software developers, public policy wonks, and civic organizers building the tools needed to upgrade the infrastructure of our democracy, turning election data and information into apps...

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 entirel...

For nearly thirty years, the George Lucas Educational Foundation's Edutopia has been charting the course of proven innovation and transformation in K-12 education, joined at the bleeding edge of edu...

Since the early days of the Web, FairVote has been a non-partisan trailblazer for electoral reforms that give voters greater choice, a stronger voice, and a more representative democracy...

For the better part of three decades, Generations United has made supporting development of intergenerational communities and programs its lodestone...

Whether you want stay on the cutting EDGE, or just stay TRUE to your PEERs, GBCI, administrator of the LEED certification program, has its tendrils on the 1s and 0s of the green building movement...

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......

The New Economic Foundation's Happy Planet Index is combining data from a variety of sources to determine which nations are best achieving long, happy, sustainable lives for their people...

The United Nations' widely recognized Human Development Index defines a nation's well-being as a combination of health (life expectancy), education, and standard of living (per capita income)...

Since 2013, non-profit Just Capital has been developing and releasing lists of companies--the Just 100--that are going furthest beyond shareholder value for our countryto help socially conscious inv...

The Internet Lost And Found has been taking the concept of the Good Samaritan both digital and global for nearly two decades...

NEDC is building a bipartisan movement of experts in cybersecurity and elections administration, policymakers, and concerned citizens, united across party lines to secure our elections technology...

Tom Steyer’s NextGen America has registered more than 1.3 million young voters by "meeting them where they are” (primarily online) rather than traditional organizing...

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......

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 ...

Sometimes division is a good thing--microtargeted online communities pioneered by Patients Like Me are extending and even saving lives...

Starting in 2016, Pizza to the Polls has been delivering za to polling places where stomachs aren’t the only things rumbling because of especially interminable lines...

The Internet's algorithms may be making us small-minded but Britannica's Pro vs. Con can give you every reason why what you know about virtually any issue ain't necessarily so...

Harvard's Project Implicit allows you to scientifically test your biases in ten+ areas, including race, and contribute anonymously to a worldwide database in the process...

One of the most important daily civic activities today is recycling; it's also subject to widespread, if unspoken misconceptions. But the State of Connecticut has an app for this, for the next time yo...

The fight for democracy against autocracy continues, and RVAT provides an excellent model for how to win it, one to many voters at a time...

Originated in the town once known as "the armpit of the Northeast," See Click Fix has made civic engagement user-friendly in more than 45,000 communities, especially hard-hit metropolises like Oakland...

The Social Progress Imperative's Social Progress Index primarily distinguishes itself from other indices by measuring social progress directly, independent of economic development...

In arguably the most spiritual of nations, India's most popular spirituality website, Speaking Tree, may be a window into the soul of the world's greatest democracy......

Young citizens, both here and abroad, have also created, and fill the ranks, of the two biggest and most potent movements on behalf of the planet we call home, the Sunrise Movement and the Extinction ...

A news network launched in 2018 that features trenchant commentary from political pros on both sides with a common interest in illuminating the path back to our founding values...

The self-described 'voter's self-defense system,' non-partisan Vote Smartincludes bios, votes, positions, ratings, speeches, and funding sources for more than 40,000 federal candidates--it'll even hel...

Your vote really doesn't count--not by itself. But new apps like VoterCircle are making it possible to 'force-multiply' your ballot to the point where your preferences really can influence election ou...

Vote Riders provides state-by-state information on acceptable IDs, the documentation required to get them, how to get it, and even covers the costs involved for those in need...

VoteWithMe lets you see which of your friends have voted in past elections and their party affiliations, if any. It also IDs which of your friends live in competitive districts and provides battle-tes...

The best political journalism you've never seen, the Washington Monthly creatively mixes strategy, tactics, and innovative policy ideas into one of politics' few "must-reads"...

Worldmeter is run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time-relevant format to a wide audi...