The Imaginary Crisis
An excerpt from Another World Is Possible on methods for improving our social imagination.
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Social Issues - Articles
Combatting the Psychology of Bias
How our brains undermine long-term thinking, and what social impact organizations can do about it.
Building an Ecosystem of Community-Led Public Health
COVID-19 vaccine efforts showed how successfully centering communities can overcome mistrust and access barriers.
Digital Service Development Needs an Ethical Pause
The ethical pause—a short period of reflection and inquiry about a project’s ethical implications and the team’s approach to the work—helps ensure teams ask the right questions and address issues of inequity and access in the services they develop.
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Advancing Climate Justice Priorities Over Profit-Led Research
Through intentional investments and informed divestments, investors, philanthropists, and foundations can support environmentally conscious, community-centered, and reparative approaches to economic and technological change.
Time to Put the Fossil-Fuel Industry Into Hospice
If humanity is to survive the climate crisis, we must manage a just and orderly transition away from fossil fuels. The correct models for this resolution are triage, euthanasia, and hospice.
Open-access to this article made possible by University of Michigan.
How Civil Society Saved the 2020 Census
A collaborative of foundations and nonprofits took action to mitigate the harms resulting from a series of unfortunate and nefarious events that jeopardized the accuracy of the latest census. Here’s how they did it—and how their lessons can now be used in service of the next decennial.
Lifesaving Telemedicine
Telemedicine allows people the lifesaving care that they need after the fall of Roe.
Good Overfishing
Good overfishing removes an invasive species from Mexico rivers and creates jobs.
Reviving the Ancients
Plato’s Academy Centre aims to make ancient philosophy accessible and easily digestible to the public.