Democratic citizenship requires intellectual courage: the willingness to encounter perspectives that challenge our assumptions.

Civic engagement, when a group or individual takes action to address issues of public concern, has been shown to benefit communities and improve health outcomes. We asked our Top Stories newsletter ...

Whether MAGA should be considered conservative is part of the puzzle. If by “conservative” we mean an effort to honor that ...

Illinois is one of 48 states that revokes the right to vote for people in prison convicted of a felony. But that hasn’t stopped some from learning – and teaching – about voting and political ...

A teacher once said to me: “A society pays for what it values.” If so, our society values commercial entertainment, including spectator sports, orders of magnitude more than it values civics defined ...