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Social Issues - Articles
What Kind of World Is AI Building?
The ideologies behind today's most powerful technology
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2025
Building collective capacity; AI's power for the greater good; grappling with systems collapse; lessons from collaborative philanthropy; and more.
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A New Story for the Environment
An excerpt from A World of Wounds on finding a new way to heal
When USAID Shut Down, Its Lessons Nearly Vanished. AI Helped Recover Them
A final sweep of 60 years of evidence reveals durable truths about how development succeeds and fails.
SSIR Online, Winter 2026 Issue
What SSIR readers are saying about articles on impact accounting's equity problem, leadership that meets the moment, and better strategies for board recruitment.
Education’s Civic Dividend
The social returns of investments in education too often go unmeasured and undervalued.
Coping With Mental Illness at Work
Employees experiencing mental illness successfully manage their symptoms by disengaging from some aspects of their jobs and engaging in others.
Building an Adaptive Metanetwork to Fight Climate Change
EcoAmerica has developed a network to inform and coordinate other networks to push for climate action. With a reach of 60 million individuals across the United States, it offers important lessons for other large-scale efforts to overcome wicked problems. | Open access to this article is made possible by ecoAmerica.
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The Power of Redemptive Love
Jason Corburn and DeVone Boggan's Advancing Peace explores a striking model for addressing urban gun violence without police.