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Talking About Talking: The Art of Public Speaking In an Age of Disconnection

By John Bowe

"The idea of a nonprofit organization carrying the torch of an obscure, long-lost tradition emphasizing social and interpersonal skills seemed to bear upon every dour preoccupation I’ve ever nursed about modern life, capitalism, and technology."

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Four Urgent Global Crises: Pressing Problems Other than COVID We Need to Address

By Blair H. Sheppard

The things that worry us as individuals, it turns out, worry all of us as citizens of the world. Global problems are local problems and no different in North or South America, Europe, Asia, or Africa.

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Girls' Natural Advantage:Collaborative Problem-Solving and the Future of Work

By Marisa Porges

Our girls have the advantage at a skill that will become ever more important moving forward. This is why collaboration is an ideal talent to promote when girls are young— so they recognize the importance of this skill and can effectively tap into it as adults, ensuring it becomes their lasting advantage no matter where they find themselves.

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The Double X Economy: Why Women’s Economic Exclusion is a Bigger Deal Than You May Think

By Linda Scott

Despite accounting for half the species, half the national income, and half the food supply, women are nevertheless treated as bit players by economists and policy makers. […] The opportunity cost of excluding the Double X Economy is always steep.

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Black Fatigue: An Introduction

By Mary-Frances Winters

The history of white supremacist, racist systems have led to Black intergenerational fatigue. The impact of Black fatigue is not only on Blacks but also on society. The racist system is not just literally killing Black people; it is tearing the whole nation apart.

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Shareholder Value as Yesterday’s Idea

By Rebecca Henderson

Markets only create genuine freedom of opportunity if everyone has the chance to play. When unchecked markets leave too many people too far behind, they destroy the freedom of opportunity that is fundamental to their own legitimacy.

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American Aristocracy

By Nicholas D Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn

Researchers have found that … in countries around the world, the accumulation of wealth also often leads to accumulation of political power that is then harnessed to multiply that wealth. Indeed, that’s what we’re seeing in America.

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The Declaration of Independence

The primary author of the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson. For all the high ideals he provided the document and our country, he was also, like the majority of signatories to the Declaration, a slave owner. There were also ardent abolitionists in the group that signed the document, but they were outnumbered. It is representative of the contradiction and conflict between America’s original sin and its original promise that still courses through our lives and politics today.

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Mockingbird Players: An Excerpt from Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

By Bryan Stevenson

I was in my late twenties and about to start my fourth year at the SPDC when I met Walter McMillian. His case was one of the flood of cases I’d found myself frantically working on after learning of a growing crisis in Alabama. The state had nearly a hundred people on death row as well as the fastest-growing condemned population in the country, but it also had no public defender system, which meant that large numbers of death row prisoners had no legal representation of any kind.

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The Core of the Fight: The Continued Struggle for Equal Voting Rights in America

By Stacey Abrams

Voting is an act of faith. It is profound. In a democracy, it is the ultimate power. Through the vote, the poor can access financial means, the infirm can find health care supports, and the burdened and heavy-laden can receive a measure of relief from a social safety net that serves all.