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The big news this April included the landslide electoral loss of Viktor Orbán in Hungary. You can read this analysis by Thomas Carothers, “when entrenched, dominant-party regimes are ousted from...

The Familiar Choice – and Why It Feels Real Organizations across the nonprofit sector—particularly those focused on protecting or strengthening democratic institutions—are operating under conditions where their decisions are no...

On a Sunday morning in Mississippi, a pastor rises to speak. The sermon may begin with scripture, but it rarely ends there. It stretches into the realm of public life...

This month, many around the country are preparing for the next No Kings rallies taking place on March 28. This is a helpful article by Micah Sifry on getting ready:...

What “A Sector in Crisis: How U.S. Nonprofits and Foundations Are Responding to Threats” reveals about the philanthropic field—and why strategic coherence matters Introduction: A Signal in the CEP Report...

In February, we celebrated 100 years of Black History Month , with commemorations and invitations to communities to “reflect not only on the history itself, but on how the rituals...

Governing Claim When urgency-driven national engagement meets place-based ecosystems managing the lived consequences of democratic decisions, risk is redistributed asymmetrically. If that redistribution is not understood and calibrated in advance,...

For many, it feels like we’ve been shot out of a cannon since the start of the new year. As we marked the five-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, we saw important reflections on the impact of the presidential pardons of those jailed for those violent crimes while celebrating the release of the latest edition of...

Members of the Growers Guild recently came together in Phoenix, Arizona. While there, they visited the Phoenix Indian School, which was established in 1891 as a boarding school for American Indian children...