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Inside the Tech Stack Keeping Deepfake Abuse Profitable
How platforms, advertisers and tech infrastructure providers profit from non-consensual sexual imagery while avoiding direct accountability.
The Financial Class Could Easily Alleviate the Housing Crisis. Why Aren’t They?
The Price Gap Agreement is a new proposal that leverages existing financial instruments to get outpriced buyers into homes. It begs the question: why aren’t we already doing this?
From Assimilation to Ownership: How Dani Tan Rewrote the Rules of Success
Former corporate VP Dani Tan shares how navigating power, identity, and ambition led her to coach women of color toward ownership, clarity, and career authorship.
The Forecast Looks Grim, You Should Step Forward Anyway
When our systems feel unstable, the most immediate form of power is local participation, showing up in the places where you live, work and share responsibility.
Scaling Harm: Platforms, Profits and the Rise of AI Sexual Abuse
How AI image tools, platform design and global distribution networks have enabled non-consensual sexual imagery to scale faster than enforcement.
Civic Discourse with Citizen Tripp | Episode 6: Engaging in Community
Different ways to build and engage in community.
Why School Feels Disconnected for So Many Children and Teachers—And How to Fix It
How Indigenous history and somatic learning offer a framework for rebuilding how children experience school.
The Citizens' Revival Is Already Happening (And This Is What It Looks Like)
A love letter to the builders, neighbors and quiet revolutionaries who are stitching a new world into being, right where they stand.
Every Billion Elon Musk Adds to His Wealth Is An Insult to All of Us
The tech-fraud’s endlessly growing lump of monopoly money is a case study for why Western institutions are in terminal collapse.
The Backyard Begins It: How Ordinary Spaces Become Civic Engines
As trust in institutions declines, civic engagement is rebuilding through backyard gatherings and neighbor networks.
The Illusion Economy: What Layoffs, Black Friday and AI Have in Common
A look at the growing gap between economics, business + tech headlines and the everyday experience.
Working Models: National Domestic Workers Alliance
The Organization Building Power in the Shadows of America’s Care Economy
Meet The Indie Marketplaces Challenging Big Tech’s Grip on Small Sellers
The e-com rebels refusing Big Tech’s rules.
The Unreachable Hungry: Mapping the Distance Between Hunger and Help
America’s hunger crisis has a transportation issue.
Faith in the Machine: On Techno-utopianism, Mortality and the Religion of Innovation
Technology, transcendence and the fear of death.
What Is a Municipal Government? (And Why It Matters Where You Live)
Understanding the power and purpose of local government.
From Representation to Ownership: A Call for Courage in Media Leadership
Equity, ownership and media power.
Parenting Through Collective Trauma: How Do We Raise Hopeful Kids in a Broken World?
How to nurture hope through chaos.
Mental Health and Company Culture: Why Support Matters at Work
Workplaces that don’t burn out people.
“How Is Anyone Doing It?”: The New Reality of Financial Anxiety in America
Money, survival and managing modern stress.