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August 2024

How a self-governing summer program in Alabama helps teens realize their power
A Q&A with Daniel Marshall, Co-Founder of Lamplight Summer Camp
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Sam Pressler
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Left alone
A reflection on my new report with the Survey Center on American Life: “Disconnected: The Growing Class Divide in American Civic Life”
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Sam Pressler
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Kids these days
On “play streets,” meaning-making and child-rearing, and our “forgotten kin”
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Building an "accelerator" for community groups and social clubs
A Q&A with Build IRL founders, Saumya Gupta and Colton Heward-Mills
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Sam Pressler
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July 2024

Cutting off your family? Grief culture? Buying back the block?
Highlighting the community content you may have missed between all of the U.S. political headlines.
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Why every town should host an activities fair
Just as colleges host activities fairs to energize campus life, so too can town leaders host activities fairs to energize civic life
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Sam Pressler
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Lockdown nostalgia? Becoming better men? Mapping social trust?
A post-holiday week backlog of listens, reads, and resources
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June 2024

Loving our places in and through their beauty and brokenness
A Q&A with writer and "Uprooted" author, Grace Olmstead
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Sam Pressler
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A Surgeon General’s warning? A Trust for Civic Life? Peak Loneliness?
A hot week for reads!
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Make it weird
(and silly and fun)
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Sam Pressler
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Taking a trip
Are psychedelics escapist drugs or healing medicines? Pseudo-religious cults or embedded religious groups? Yes.
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