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Citizen Engagement

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Bucksport, Maine, from across the Penobscot River. (Photos Deborah Fallows)
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  • Citizen Engagement

Bucksport Maine Finds Its Heart & Soul

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 18, 2021
How can person-to-person democracy be revived? A one-time mill town in coastal Maine is a laboratory for a new approach.
Josh Fryday announcing the Civic Action Fellowship in February of this year.
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  • Citizen Engagement
  • Health & Well-Being

A New Way for Californians to Serve

  • James Fallows
  • April 7, 2020
The coronavirus peril is global. Much of the response must, of course, be international or national if it is to matter at all. In the United States, only the federal…
Citizens of Stockton at city council meeting considering library expansion ("Raising Literacy," Robert Dawson)
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  • Governance

Why Not Dodge? Why Not Stockton?

  • James Fallows
  • November 8, 2016
I mentioned yesterday that several local initiatives could mean as much to their communities or states as the outcome of most national races. The two historical examples I naturally think of are…
The Dequindre Cut in Detroit, one of the civic projects that has just won support in a nationwide competition sponsored by the Knight Foundation.
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Awards for Civic Engagement: 37 New Examples

  • James Fallows
  • April 13, 2016
A big question in national politics this year is what exactly “engagement” means, beyond showing up at rallies. As Yoni Appelbaum pointed out last week, Donald Trump supporters are notable for…
The Athenaeum hotel and restaurant at Chautauqua in August, 2015. (James Fallows)
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Civic Engagement Talk in America’s Original Engaged Communities

  • James Fallows
  • February 8, 2016
The Chautauqua Institution is one of America’s great centers for civil, cultural, and intellectual engagement. A talk about 21st-century American renewal, at a place whose history traces to a great 19th-century reform movement.
Members of San Bernardino’s “Generation Now" Matthew Greenleaf, Saniyyah Thomas, Jennica Billins, Michael Segura, Jorge Heredia, and Fabian Torres: the young people who think they can save a bankrupt, low-hope city (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Citizen Engagement

‘Generation Now’—What People Do, When There Seems to Be Nothing to Do

  • James Fallows
  • April 28, 2015
In the next few installments I will be talking about two cities in inland Southern California that have some things in common but have headed in very different directions, and…

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