The Power of Redemptive Love
Jason Corburn and DeVone Boggan's Advancing Peace explores a striking model for addressing urban gun violence without police.
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Civic Engagement - Book Reviews
Social innovations that enrich society and enhance democratic participation
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Humanitarian Cities in Flux
As refugees transform urban spaces, we must build the infrastructure to make it for the good.
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The Moral Stakes of Budgeting
Celina Su's Budget Justice is a call to reengage citizenry and build solidarity through participatory democracy.
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Exiting the Fast Lane
Social entrepreneur Sascha Haselmayer argues for slowness as the most effective method for creating lasting social change.
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Poverty Persists Because of Us
In Poverty, by America, sociologist Matthew Desmond argues that America’s welfare state doesn’t help those who need it the most.
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The Future of Elite Giving
The coauthors of For-Profit Philanthropy recommend policies to reestablish the public’s trust in philanthropy—but did it ever exist?
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Housing Density for Whom?
Max Holleran’s Yes to the City examines millennials’ demands for more housing and a new road map for urban growth.
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Cultivating, Seeding, and Planting a Better World
Ruha Benjamin argues that the social change we seek begins within the individual.
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Bridging Partisan Divides
Mónica Guzmán’s I Never Thought of It That Way offers lessons for managing the contentious conversations of our increasingly polarized society.
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Make America ‘We’ Again
The famed author of Bowling Alone returns with a sweeping social history that searches for optimism in a deeply divided America.