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There are books that lay out policies. There are books that wax poetic about community spirit. And then there’s Neighborhood Power, Jim Diers’ impassioned, practical, and deeply human account of how one city (Seattle) managed to turn community engagement from a bureaucratic checkbox into a living, breathing force of civic life. Diers, the former director

By most measures, the future has already arrived. The robots have taken the factories. Algorithms have taken the call centers. And AI is now circling the last bastions of uniquely human labor, from truck driving to news reporting to customer service. What remains, we are told, is something better, something more fulfilling. A future not

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I once had a neighbor who built a greenhouse out of reclaimed windows. Every pane was mismatched, a little foggy, and charming in the way that old things often are. He grew tomatoes in January, powered the lights with a small solar rig, and caught rainwater in upcycled barrels he called his “liquid bank account.”

In all societies, whether ancient or modern, the question of how one ought to treat others is never entirely settled. Customs vary, laws shift, and religions rise and fall, but the problem of human conduct, of what we owe one another, remains. To some, morality seems a matter of doctrine, handed down from above or

Once, we believed we were being prompted by something sacred. Not prompted in the marketing sense, not nudged by a notification or a swipeable ad, but prompted in the deepest spiritual sense: a call from beyond, an inner voice attuned to the divine. For millennia, people looked skyward, or inward, for guidance. God, the Holy

Something has slipped, quietly, from our collective memory. Not all at once, but bit by bit; like a thread unraveling from a coat we forgot how to mend. It’s the idea that we owe one another something, not in the transactional sense of favors or debts, but in the deeper, more human sense of responsibility.

There’s a quiet unease felt beneath the surface of everyday life; a sense that the ground is shifting under our feet, and that the playbook we once relied on may no longer apply. Conversations about artificial intelligence, economic volatility, and geopolitical realignment now echo in places where job security and upward mobility once felt like

“The most radical act today may be emotional stewardship: choosing what we echo, what we absorb, and what we let pass through.” By any objective measure, we live in extraordinary times. Technology has granted us unprecedented access to one another’s lives, thoughts, fears, and joys. Yet beneath the constant stream of updates and the frictionless

Most people think escaping the rat race means buying goats. The fantasy goes something like this: you sell everything, move to the country, get some chickens, and learn to make soap. You trade your anxiety for a compost pile and your email inbox for a wheelbarrow. And while that image has its rustic charm, it's

Power, Empowerment, and Social Change; Edited by Rosemary McGee and Jethro Pettit In the sprawling and often self-congratulatory literature of development studies, “empowerment” has become one of those feel-good buzzwords, waved around like a flag at a protest but rarely unpacked with the depth and honesty it deserves. That is, until now. Power, Empowerment, and

The arc of human history often feels like a story we’ve already read, even as we live it. Every age believes itself to be teetering on a precipice, and perhaps we are. But what if that precipice (along with the climb, the detours, and the moments of pause) was inevitable all along? This is where