Democracy (Other)

The unique harms faced by Black disabled people is missing from the mainstream conversation and national reckoning on police violence and racism following several high-profile killings by police, including George Floyd and…

Bill Ketter with his Wells Key award from SPJ and fellow CNHI executives Matt Gray, left , and Jim Zachary (Photo by Al Cross) By Al Cross …

The California Endowment is spearheading renewed interest in an approach that supports communities to be the architects of their own equity efforts. Open-access to this article made possible by The California Endowment.

Clark & Pace: Navigating attacks and strengthening curriculum in the face of culture wars and bans on teaching about race, gender and sexuality.

Funders interested in promoting equity and strengthening democracy should invest in its survival and resilience…

An annual report lays out what has changed for Black women’s representation in elected office — and what still has barely budged.

A new study finds potential links between democratic erosion and the rising death rate in the United States.

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…

Independent journalism provides citizens with the information they need to make informed decisions about policies that directly impact their lives. A free press holds political leaders accountable and serves as…

Our world is awash in mis- and disinformation. Conspiratorial thinking and misguided beliefs and attitudes towards science are widespread. But combatting this deluge of problematic information must be done with…

2020 saw the highest number of women of color elected to congress in U.S. history, as well as the election of Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman (and woman…

For Jessica Cecil, today feels a bit like the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, in which agreed-upon facts endure in only a few isolated places of…