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On Living History And Stories Unfinished

I can’t quite remember when I first fell in love with history.

Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America

Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their voices heard in this m

Measuring Racial Discrimination in Algorithms

Algorithmic decision-making can lead to discrimination against legally protected groups, but measuring such discrimination is often hampered by a fundamental selection challenge.

Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know

In Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know® , Erica Chenoweth – one of the world's leading scholars on the topic – explains what civil resistance is, how it works, why it sometimes fails, how vi

Reimagining Rights & Responsibilities in the United States: Freedom of Speech and Media

The First Amendment guarantees some of the most fundamental rights provided to Americans under the Constitution. The right to free expression is a foundational tenet of American values.

Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Equal Access to Public Goods and Services

A right of equal access to public goods and services is rooted in the rights to ‘Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’ With these rights, the Declaration of Independence asserts the concept of

The Role of Leadership in Cultivating Collective Democratic Voice

Reimagining Rights & Responsibilities in the United States: Gun Rights and Public Safety

In March 2018, hundreds of thousands of young people walked out of school and marched on their local statehouses and on the U.S.

The Role of External Support in Nonviolent Campaigns: Poisoned Chalice or Holy Grail?

This monograph is based on an ICNC-sponsored multi-year research project that examines the effects of different forms of external aid on the outcomes and longer-term impacts of civil resistance campai

The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students

Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States.