Building Resilient Communities: Cultivating Community & Collaboration in Baltimore
Rev. Kimberly Lagree wrote for the civic engagement blog about her work on cultivating community collaboration in Baltimore.
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Civic Engagement Capsule Series: Introduction
Hollie Russon-Gilman wrote an introduction for the civic engagement blog.
Imagining a New Democracy with Participatory Budgeting
Maria Hadden wrote for the civic engagement blog about her work on participatory budgeting in the city of Chicago.
Volunteering as Civic Engagement At Home and Abroad
Innovation Can Fuel Inequality. But Can It Also Solve It?
New York City shows that, by tethering investment and innovation, cities can disperse opportunity and bring marginalized voices into policy.
What’s Happening on Germany’s Far Right?
In the wake of Germany’s elections, it appears that Angela Merkel has created a vacuum on the right—one an extremist party is keen to fill.
The Time for Engaging Citizens in Democracy Is Now
Participatory budgeting represents an authentic way of making a government literally of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum talks about how authoritarians take power, the threat of social media, and the first six months of Trump’s presidency.
George Packer
Yascha Mounk talks to George Packer about why none of the dominant narratives of American identity can bind us together.