Democracy

Framing dissent and poverty as a menace to public order can threaten fundamental rights, particularly when it’s used to justify the deployment of predictive technology.

Community support is one of the most effective ways to prevent children from entering the traditional foster care system.

Rachel Ndirangu knows her numbers. “Nearly 300,000 women die annually from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, with 95% in LMICs,” says Ndirangu, the Africa Regional Director for Advocacy…

What if funders approached grantmaking in the way social movement leaders approach their most pressing challenges? In environments defined by uncertainty, movement leaders assume that even the best-laid plans will…

Truth Decay, which RAND defines as the diminishing role of facts in American public life, is a complicated, systemic phenomenon. Over the past two decades in the United States, it has…

Earlier this month, I went to see a great documentary at DOCNYC about “Daily Show” co-creator Lizz Winstead’s organization, Abortion Access Front.The film, “No One Asked You,” by Ruth Leitman, was funny, full of joy and love, and captured what most of media has missed during this chaotic unraveling…

Amid a surge in gun violence across the United States, funders increasingly are supporting collaborative community violence intervention (CVI) efforts, which can include hospital-based intervention, street outreach, and intense mentorship…

Claire Dunning traces the development of the nonprofit sector and argues that it was created to offset demands for democracy, particularly by people of color.

Some residents of Fairmount, an upper-middle-income neighborhood of Philadelphia, are irate that a nearby homeless shelter is being turned into an addiction “triage” center without input from the surrounding community.…

Politicians are just beginning to pay more attention to how to reach — and listen to — AAPI voters, says the Democratic legislator.

In 1994, voters approved Prop 187 in attempt to block undocumented Californians from accessing public benefits. The state’s electorate also passed a draconian “three strikes” law that sent nonviolent offenders…

Americans don’t agree on much these days, but many feel that the U.S. is on the wrong track and the future is bleak. In a time of unprecedented division, rising…