Transition into Kindergarten: Planning a Year Ahead
Kindergarten is already two months underway, but this conversation isn’t about this year’s students—it’s about next year’s incoming class.
Can AI Achieve the Broken Promises of Smart Cities?
Neil Kleiman spoke with Diana Lind for her Substack, The New Urban Order.
New America’s Great Lakes Receiving Network Awarded Opportunity Fund Grant from U.S. Bank Foundation
Funding supports capacity building in Midwest cities to achieve housing affordability and environmental resilience amid climate migration.
Why California’s Prop 50 Is a Victory for Democracy—Even in Its Irony
Maresa Stano writes on how California’s Prop 50 proves the importance of direct democracy in building voters’ power.
Recipes of Ruin: Food Traditions and the Struggle for Cultural Identity
How can food traditions become targets in campaigns of cultural erasure? Visiting Fellow Aryn Baker dives into Michael Shaikh’s new book.
Bridging the Gaps in Disability Policy: Reclaiming the Promise of the ADA
Disabled people are not passive recipients of policy outcomes; they are experts on their own lives and the systems they operate within.
The People’s Plan for Hughes
This week, Fort Collins voters endorsed deliberative democracy at the ballot box.
Haley Swenson
Senior Writer and Researcher, Better Life Lab
Emily Wax
Fellow, Better Life Lab
Leah Ruppanner
Fellow, Better Life Lab