Democracy & Civic Engagement

Read about the meeting of student activists from committed to ending gun violence from Parkland and Chicago.

Learn about how Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America (1835), viewed democracy, freedom, and religion.

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Accounts from the crisis that unfolds in Little Rock, Arkansas when black students attend the previously all-white Central High School. Accounts from the crisis that unfolds in Little Rock, Arkansas when black students attend the previously all-white Central High School.

A CNN article explores the strengths and weaknesses of, and interplay between, professional news and amateur social media.