Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022
The Voting Issue | Governor Thomas H. Kean on The Importance of Bipartisanship | Getting to Know Dame Louise Richardson with Judy Woodruff | Abigail Deutsch on Protecting and Advancing the Right to Vote | Heather McGhee on Universal Voting | Geri Mannion on What Philanthropy Can Do to Protect and Expand Voting Rights | Mona Chalabi on Voter Turnout | Sue Dorfman on Democracy in Action | Meet the First Female Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana
- ReadPeople Participation: Voting Stories from Across the U.S.
Photojournalist Sue Dorfman has traveled the country documenting individuals as they exercise their right to vote — from Arkansas to Ohio, from Maryland to Mississippi. The visual stories she’s captured are as varied as they are inspiring
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- ReadProtecting and Advancing the Right to Vote
Carnegie Corporation of New York grantees are using a range of strategies in response to the changing conditions of voting in America and are working to expand options to make voting easier, more accessible, and more convenient
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022Voting - ReadThe Fight to Vote — It’s at the Heart of American History
Politics may be messy, but, as the Brennan Center’s Michael Waldman argues, the struggle for the right to vote is never over
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022Voting
- ReadHow Do Dictatorships Survive?
Early in the twenty-first century, the number of democracies surged past the tally of authoritarian states worldwide. By 2019, dictatorships outnumbered democracies. Why do they keep rising from the ashes?
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022Andrew Carnegie Fellows
- ReadTwenty Lessons for Fighting Tyranny
Historian and Andrew Carnegie Fellow Timothy Snyder suggests ways to defend democracy with individual actions
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- ReadA Greeting from Our New President
Dame Louise Richardson writes about the opportunity and obligation of philanthropists to use wealth wisely and to act with speed and flexibility, unhindered by partisanship, and with an eye toward those who are being overlooked
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- WatchGetting to Know Dame Louise Richardson with Judy Woodruff
The Corporation’s new president talks with long-serving Corporation trustee Judy Woodruff about growing up in rural Ireland, the dangers of binary thinking, and much more, including being the first in her family to go to college
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- ReadAll Elections Matter: Vote! And Vote Local!
Data journalist Mona Chalabi helps visualize voter turnout gaps among national and local elections and why voter participation at all election levels — including local school boards — is one way to strengthen U.S. democracy
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- ReadWhat Can Philanthropy Do to Protect and Expand Voting Rights?
The latest efforts to suppress the votes of Americans demand that philanthropies across causes, from environment and education to health care, do more by continually supporting the expansion and protection of voting rights – and not just at election time, writes the Corporation’s Geri Mannion
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- ReadMeet Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, the First Female Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana
She tackles the job “with the eye of the scientist and the heart of a humanist”
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022African Academics - ReadHow Is Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Likely to Alter the Post-World War II International Order?
A group of experts offer their perspectives on the events unleashed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other fast moving global trends
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022Emerging Global Order - ReadFrom Strategic Stability to Preventing Nuclear War
The Corporation’s Sharon Weiner discusses reducing nuclear threats, the need for public awareness, and her hopes as a grantmaker
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022Nuclear ThreatsAndrew Carnegie Fellows - ReadListening to Students to Improve Schools
Corporation grantee Transcend aims to facilitate deep listening of students’ experiences, believing that the voices of young people should help inform educational decision-making
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022Student Success
- ReadA Dozen Ways to Increase Voting in the United States
E. J. Dionne Jr. and Miles Rapoport propose 11 gateway reforms to pave the way for universal civic duty voting
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- ReadHow Could Universal Civic Duty Voting Improve American Democracy?
Universal civic duty voting could create a system in America where everyone would count – poor and working people, young people, people from all communities of color – making the voting electorate look far more like America
Carnegie Reporter Winter 2022Voting - ReadThe Importance of Bipartisanship
Polarization is one of the most serious problems affecting U.S. democracy today— Kean suggests ways that we can work together on the nation’s problems
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