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We speak, we write, we do language.
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Featured Articles
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Experiential Learning on Cold Pavement: Awakening the Seeds of Empathy
So what do we see when we pass a homeless soul on the street? What do we feel? What words go through our mind, heart, and spirit? It’s only a passing instance, right? The sight quickly dissolves . . . or does it? Why would it even linger? Is this strictly a test of individual empathy, or does that single sight of desperation expose a fracturing of our collective humanity? What else is tethered to that sudden, quiet shock of urgency—is it a mirror reflecting the wavering needle of our moral compass, a silent tug on our relationships with each other as fellow citizens? Or, in navigating the modern concrete jungle, have we rationed our compassion so severely that some fellow human beings have simply ceased to matter?
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The Ghost Candidate of 2024: Flesh and Bone in 2026-2028
Imagine a political candidate who out-democratized both major parties by securing the backing of tens of millions of Americans. This was not a third-party phenomenon; it was the sheer force of the American electorate who decided to simply stay home. In a Democratic Republic where ownership of the government is theoretically vested in every individual citizen, a massive portion of the population routinely abdicates their share of that equity. While nations around the world look upon the American system with deep envy, millions of its own citizens treat the ballot box as an afterthought. This mass abstention is a direct challenge to the health of the republic: when the largest block of eligible voters is defined by its silence, the core legitimacy of our self-governing experiment hangs in the balance.
*87,037,185 eligible citizens decided not to vote in 2024.
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