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Podcast: Democracy: The voters verdict

Podcast: Democracy: The voters verdict

We have a 2022 post-election show with a twist. Instead of focusing on which party is up or down, we open the hood and examine the engine of our democracy. Voters delivered a clear verdict: Most election deniers were defeated as many voters, especially independents, split their ballots, and shunned the extremes

This episode’s guests are Layla Zaidane, President and CEO of Millennial Action Project— the nation's largest nonpartisan organization of young lawmakers— and David Meyers, founding Executive Editor of the democracy newsletter, The Fulcrum. In the days before the election, the media was full of warnings, and perhaps some hyperbole, about the perilous state of American democracy.


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Keeping Kids Safe Online?: Understanding the Debate Over AI Age Verification
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Keeping Kids Safe Online?: Understanding the Debate Over AI Age Verification

This nonpartisan policy brief, written by an ACE fellow, is republished by The Fulcrum as part of our partnership with the Alliance for Civic Engagement and our NextGen initiative — elevating student voices, strengthening civic education, and helping readers better understand democracy and public policy.

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Global leaders sitting around a circular table at the G7 Summit on June 18, 2026.

G7 leaders, G7 outreach partners and global tech CEOs attend a working lunch on innovation and AI at the G7 Summit on June 17, 2026 in Evian-les-Bains, France.

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At G7 Meeting, AI Titans Showed Themselves to Be the World’s New “Power Elite”

Seventy years ago, in 1956, the sociologist C. Wright Mills published a startling exposé of the hidden forces controlling the government in the United States. What Mills labeled “the power elite” occupied leading roles in corporations, the military, and political institutions.

Mills’ book was designed to explore the shadowy world in which the power elite operated and to expose the enormous behind-the-scenes influence of a group whose decisions had great consequences for “the underlying populations of the world.” At the time it appeared, commentators credited Mills with “developing a theory of where the decisive power lies in American society, how it got there, and how it is exercised.”

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The Trillionaire and the Homeless Person
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The Trillionaire and the Homeless Person

There have always been and there will always be rich people and poor people. That is inherent in the nature of man in non-collective societies.

But while our Founding Fathers—in particular John Adams—recognized that nature is filled with examples of inequalities in man's material possessions as well as in his mental and physical attributes—and that's just the way it is—he felt strongly that each person has the moral right to change his circumstances, the moral right to equality as well as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And that government's role—as stated in the Declaration of Independence—is to "secure" those rights.

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