The Renovator
Danielle Allen, Angela Glover Blackwell, Julie White, Beth Fukumoto, Micah Weinberg, Joanna Kenty, Nathan E. Sanders, Bruce Schneier, Zachey KligerThe Renovator is a Substack for everyone who wants to help renovate our democracy.
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Use Big Tech Settlements for Civic Renewal
Meta’s multibillion-dollar settlement last week with state attorneys general was a welcome start. It holds the social media giant accountable for damage to our children and childhood itself. But it’s just a start.
An incredible opportunity...
Preparing for student voting, civil dialogue in the news, and ‘Our Common Purpose’ revisited.
In case you missed it, check out our guest post from Chapman Rackaway: Bring Single Transferable Vote Elections to Campus: Let Students Practice Democracy Before They Have to Defend It. And from this weekend: “Discovering Democracy at the P...
Discovering Democracy at the Please Touch Museum
What dreams do you have for your city’s future?
“Peace and love.” “No guns.” “I would stop violence.” “For everyone to have everything they need.” “To stop child abuse.” “More parks.” “Equal access to education for everyone.” “Open up more...
Reform, Revolution, and Renovation
For as long as there’s been a “left,” the left has been divided. After all, to share a belief in change or progress does not imply agreement on any specific form of change, or on how to get there. Conserving the past is, inherently, a more...
Entrenchers vs Openers
The primary season that’s now coming to a close has left us with what seems on the surface to be a dramatically reshaped political landscape. A new faction, the democratic socialists, is ascendant; an old faction, MAGA, is deflating; and th...
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The founder of The Renovator, Danielle Allen, is a Harvard prof and democracy advocate working on democracy renovation 24-7.
Founder in Residence at PolicyLink. Host of the Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life podcast
Community college advocate, citizen, creative. (Profile photo credit: Matthew Campbell, @softfrost on IG)
Apolitical’s “100 Future Leaders: The World’s Most Influential Young People in Government.” 3-term State Legislator. Once, the youngest woman to lead a major party in a US legislature. Now, political columnist & strategic comms consultant.
Dr. Weinberg is a nonresident scholar at Carnegie California. He is a Senior Strategic Advisor to the Goldman School at the University of California at Berkeley. And he is CEO of the research and policy consulting firm, Healthy Systems Project.
Roman empire nerd, random fact generator, kitchen wizard, proud Philadelphian
Data Scientist @ Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center; Co-Author of Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship
Security technologist, writer, researcher. Fellow and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. www.schneier.com
Policy writer and communications professional covering tech, AI, and democracy.
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