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Sociological Complexity
People do not live their lives in isolation. Rather, they live in a complex and overlapping array of groups, each with their own behavioral expectations and constructive and destructive interaction dynamics.

Colleague Activities
Healthy Democracy, Healthy People
A new nonpartisan initiative from major public health and civic engagement groups that supports public health professionals and policymakers who are working to advance civic participation and public health.

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Polarization and Social Change Lab
Their work is focused on developing practical scientific knowledge about the social amd psychological forces that shape political attitudes, polarization, persuasion, and consensus-building.

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Citizenship and American Identity Program--The Aspen Institute
This program explores the question of what it means to be American, and how to promote a shared sense of national identity in an age of demographic flux and severe inequality.

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Co-Intelligence Institute
The Institute develops innovations in individual and collective wisdom, choice-making, and co-creativity, developing tools that help people and communities design effective self-governance systems.

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Center for American Progress

News and Opinion
Paths to Depolarization
From Francis Fukuyama an argument that while grassroots activism and electoral reform are important, what the US really needs is a major political realignment.

News and Opinion
What Makes Life Meaningful? Views From 17 Advanced Economies
A statistical look at a critical dimension of cultural diversity -- differing assessments of what makes life meaningful.

News and Opinion
Humanism and Its Discontents
A review and summary of an important new book looking at the evolution of humanistic philosophy and the difficult struggle to build societies based on that idea.

News and Opinion
The Struggle Continues: On Vincent Bevins's "If We Burn"
The review and summary of an important new book examining the many popular uprisings against oppressive regimes that have occurred in recent years (plus an assessment of their effectiveness).

News and Opinion
Meritocracy and Its Discontents
A review and summary of two new books that delve into the debate over whether the meritocracy has had a positive or negative impact on society.

News and Opinion
Finally, a book about critical social justice that its advocates might read
Yasha Mounk's book, The Identity Trap, explains how "the identity synthesis," the ideology that places group identitioes at the center of social, cultural, and political life" is getting us in so much trouble.

News and Opinion
Vertical Communities
This article suggests that the internet has changed our notion of "community." Vertical communities are degrading and fragmenting horizontal communities, yet cannot replace them.