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Books Driving Change: Sharath Jeevan and Intrinsic

Books Driving Change: Sharath Jeevan and Intrinsic

I don't think we've yet cracked the question of how do we, as an individual leader in public service, contribute to that purpose. So what tends to happen is we get hired into a job,

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Jared Walker on the Hidden Solution to Healthcare Bills

Jared Walker on the Hidden Solution to Healthcare Bills

It was a major plank of President Obama’s signature legislative achievement, but it took a TikTok video by an activist from Portland a decade later to bring it to public attention. Welcome to one of

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Our Top 10 Articles From 2021

Our Top 10 Articles From 2021

As we close 2021, we took a minute to look back at the subjects that most resonated with you, our readers. Sustainability and climate change were big topics but so were stories about individuals making

Podcasts
Books Driving Change: Anne-Marie Slaughter and Renewal

Books Driving Change: Anne-Marie Slaughter and Renewal

And for everybody who's in government, there are probably five to ten sitting in a Washington institution wishing they were in. So once again, I would urge people not to overlook the capital city of

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Books Driving Change: François Bonnici and The Systems Work of Social Change

Books Driving Change: François Bonnici and The Systems Work of Social Change

  And despite the narratives, it’s really hard for today's leaders to actually work out the radical changes we need, when their mandates and agendas are to stabilize, to continue as before. There are obviously

Well-Being
Building Estonia’s Biobank: How Government Can Power Medical Research

Building Estonia’s Biobank: How Government Can Power Medical Research

There are now over 100 biobanks worldwide, ranging from small university-based repositories to larger collections supported by governments. These collections of human biological samples, stored in cryogenic facilities could revolutionize medicine by giving researchers access

Governance
Biobanks: Why Governments Need to Step Up

Biobanks: Why Governments Need to Step Up

Biobanks -- collections of human biological samples, stored in cryogenic facilities -- could revolutionize medicine by giving researchers access to population-wide data through which they can study the interplay of genetics and disease. Governments are

Governance
Books Driving Change: Peter Coleman and The Way Out

Books Driving Change: Peter Coleman and The Way Out

So a movement is something that I'm calling for, is something that I'm envisioning the value of, but we're a long way from there. We have a lot of good work being done in communities.

Education
The Education Man: “Veveu” Arruda and Brazil’s Classroom Revolution

The Education Man: “Veveu” Arruda and Brazil’s Classroom Revolution

One could say José Clodoveu de Arruda Coelho Neto suffered from an acute case of delusional optimism. It was the late ‘90's when he first manifested the desire to utterly reshape education in his native

Citizenship & Rights
New York Redistricting Czar Urges People To Go Local

New York Redistricting Czar Urges People To Go Local

“I get seasick. My wife’s the sailor,” joked David Imamura, a lawyer specializing in white collar crime, now Chair of New York State’s (NYS) Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC), on his NYS listening tour. Monday brought

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