Democracy

Norvell: Modernization and capacity management at state agencies could be first step in easing parents’ challenges.

The most recent round of data released by the United States Bureau of the Census offers population, race and housing information on levels that reach from state to block levels.…

A scholar who has studied imprisonment explains why the promise of sentence reductions in return for organ donation raises ethical issues about whether inmates can ever consent freely.

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…

A group of researchers at the Department of Housing and Urban Development have been quietly developing an idea that could fundamentally upend the nearly 50-year-old housing voucher program, which helps more than…

The digital system should serve the public interest, with much more intentional governance of technology in its broadest terms, including culture, norms, mindsets, institutions, ethics, and participation.

This paper measures how DOJ antitrust enforcement increases economic activity and affects employment, wages, and the creation of business.

Acts of protest and revolution have historically been powered by ordinary-but-extraordinary Black women like Gilmore: leaders and strategists, some formally educated, most not, the majority whose names aren’t instantly recognizable…

Buying a home remains out of reach for many individuals and families in the United States, with house prices hovering close to an all-time high, and millennials, for a variety of…

The Standing Rock Sioux reservation near the border of North and South Dakota has some of America’s most powerful winds, with 20 mile an hour (mph) gusts regularly scouring its vast plains.

Housing is one of our best tools for ending mass incarceration. It does more than put a roof over people’s heads; housing gives people the space and stability necessary to…

Advice on increasing support for community power building from power builders and funders…