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Co-governance is a collection of participatory models and practices in which government and communities work together through formal and informal structures to make collective policy decisions, ...

Race Forward is proud to launch DemocracyIs:, a national campaign grounded in the belief that democracy and racial justice are inseparable. We are inviting organizers, artists, public leaders, and ...

The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence finds democracy at a crossroads in the United States. How can we defend and reclaim American democracy, and how do we build new strategies and ...

I didn’t grow up with policy memos or white papers. I grew up on the streets of Los Angeles, raised by a working-poor Black mother, in neighborhoods where “governance” didn’t feel like a system. It ...

On March 25, 2025, the integrity of the National Park Service (NPS) as we know it shifted. Executive Order 14253, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” mandated that National Parks, ...

The American calendar offers a compressed political education for anyone willing to read it. Juneteenth and July 4th arrive within weeks of each other, close enough to force a choice about what kind ...