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Montage by Niko Yaitanes/ Harvard Magazine; images by Unsplash.  Several months before the invasion of the United States Capitol threw the nation’s seat of legislative power into peril, the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s survey on civic knowledge found that barely half of American adults can name all three branches of government, and 20 percent cannot name any rights protected by the First Amendment. Remarkably, these figures constitute  improvements on the results of the previous 15 years of this annual survey. Even more troubling, the separate World Values Survey has found that ...

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CDT Weekly, February 12-18: Ilham Tohti, Xinjiang, and Why Clubhouse Had to Die Posted by Samuel Wade | Feb 18, 2021 Welcome to the second edition of CDT’s weekly roundup, also available as an email newsletter through Substack. With these updates, we aim to provide an overview of new content across CDT’s English and Chinese sites, as well as the bilingual China Digital Space wiki, and related content elsewhere. The highlight of our translation content this week was a long essay from 2009 by journalist and website founder Huang Zhangjin, describing his Some of the views attributed to Ilha...

Baratunde Thurston On 'How To Citizen' And The Importance Of Stepping Into Power In the latest installment of "Getting Through...," the activist and writer talks about how being a citizen is to "invest in relationships with others and with ourselves." By Zeba Blay Baratunde Thurston is the host of a new podcast called "How To Citizen."  Baratunde Thurston has made his life’s work all about progress. As a writer, activist, thinker and comedian, Thurston synthesizes race, politics, culture and technology in an effort to imagine a new, more equitable world. In 2012, he released “How To Be ...

HPD report details actions that got 55 officers disciplined in 2020 New report shows 55 police officers were disciplined in 2020 for serious conduct violations By HNN Staff | February 2, 2021 at 6:53 PM HST - Updated February 2 at 7:00 PM HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - A total of 55 Honolulu Police officers were disciplined in 2020, according to the Legislative Disciplinary Report from the Honolulu Police Department. Nine of the officers were either fired or were forced out due to misconduct, HPD said in the annual report. “I think it’s a good start. I think there’s a lot that ...