Crowdfunding Education
Social enterprise ScholarX unlocks learning opportunities for Nigerian students of all ages to help them realize their full potential.
Social Issues - Articles
Breaking the Cycle of Incarceration
Children Heard and Seen counsels young people with incarcerated parents, helping them to heal from trauma and plot a different course.
Power Sharing to End Homelessness
We’re leading a collective-impact effort to prevent homelessness in Silicon Valley. Our public-private partnership offers a profound model for systems change. | Open access to this article is made possible by Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
More Deliberation, Not Debate
Deliberation should supplant debate as the ideal that universities adopt for addressing the most pressing political and social issues.
The End of ‘College for All’
American education should embrace apprenticeship programs to expand equality of opportunity for young people.
The Psychology of Conspiracy Thinking
Scientific reasoning and information prove effective in defusing conspiracy beliefs.
The Foreign Stain on Protests
Accusations that protest movements are receiving foreign support are effective at reducing their public appeal.
Civic Engagement at Work
A study of worker-owned cooperatives demonstrates how people see their civic engagement, whether in the workplace or out in the world, as one and the same activity.
Review
The Problem With AI Is Us
AI does not herald the end of humanity—or it doesn’t have to, philosopher Shannon Vallor argues in The AI Mirror, if we decide to change its use and design.
Whither Education Reform?
We can make progress by targeting big problems that are acknowledged across partisan lines and can galvanize supermajority support to solve them.