Tag: Citizens

Until recently, I thought I was a pretty good literary citizen. It’s true that I’m not the book world’s answer to Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. I’ve never gone to Congress to rail against the stranglehold Colleen Hoover has on bestseller lists or...

participation is the first pillar of its Municipal Plan, intending to build “alternative mechanisms for democratic participation, capable of mobilising people’s knowledge.” To translate this into action, the City established its first Citizens’ Council, a decision-m...

Senegal has a proud history as one of the most successful models of democracy in Africa. Nevertheless, one sector of the population has traditionally been excluded from the process — the Deaf community. “Some of us don’t even know the name of the president,” says Aminata D...

All of this — so much, so fast, so soon — has left the climate science community somewhat agog (source). As for the rest of us, I sense we are finally beginning to experience an attitude shift. Putting aside those of us who still live in a cultish fog of denial and hate (more on them in ...

After a year of waiting, I found myself reciting the words I had been practicing and preparing to speak. I took time away from school and work in the middle of the week to travel down to Chicago. And now here I was, in this large auditorium with 98 other people going through the Naturaliz...