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July 2, 2020

Tech companies are finally being shamed into action

Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin writes about the rising concern and current corporate boycott due to platforms that allow for hate speech and engender extremism. She suggests that recommendations included in the Academy's recent report could provide longterm solutions.
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Washington Post
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Why Coronavirus Is an ‘Existential Crisis’ for American Democracy

The coronavirus pandemic is nothing less than an “existential crisis” that will reshape American society, says Danielle Allen, cochair of Academy Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship. What needs to happen for America’s civic life to be reborn?
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Politico
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Greater Global Scientific Cooperation Needed in Pandemic Fight

A working group of the American Academy project “Challenges for International Scientific Partnerships,” led by Arthur Bienenstock and Peter Michelson, calls greater global cooperation “increasingly essential.”
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Stanford University News
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June 24, 2020

NPR On Point: Reimagining Democracy for the 21st Century

In this interview with Danielle Allen, NPR's On Point focuses on the Academy's new bipartisan recommendations for reimagining American democracy for the 21st century: What are the signs democracy needs fixing? How participatory was the process? Who was consulted in the process? Where do we go from here?
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On Point, National Public Radio

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