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The Faith & Politics Institute cultivates mutual respect, moral reflection, increased understanding, and honest conversation among political leaders to advance productive discourse and constructive collaboration. FPI inspires political leaders to reflect and engage with one another for the good of our nation. Over the last 25 years, we've brought hundreds of political leaders together through our bipartisan work.


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Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Sue New York After Being Denied the Right to Vote
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Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Sue New York After Being Denied the Right to Vote

NEW YORK CITY — Outside the Southern District of New York courthouse in Foley Square, Independent Veterans of America Founder Paul Rieckhoff and Army veteran Kristen Rouse, along with their attorneys, announced a lawsuit Wednesday challenging New York's continued use of closed partisan primaries.

The suit was officially filed Thursday. Independent Veterans of America and the Independent Voter Project joined the suit as organizational plaintiffs. The case is Rieckhoff v. Berger, No. 26-cv-08655.

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AI Agents Could Save Lives—If We Let Them

The warnings about artificial intelligence keep getting louder.

The companies building the world’s most powerful AI systems are reporting troubling behavior from their own creations. And some of the researchers closest to frontier AI development warn that powerful new systems could “cause human extinction.”

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Civics is a practice, not a quiz. See how immigrant and Indigenous communities are teaching schools to build, not blend in, as America turns 250.

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Schools Can’t Teach Democracy Without Valuing Students’ Lived Experiences

Recently, I gathered with a group of dads outside Philadelphia to clear out a neighborhood park through Dads for All, the organization I co-founded. Some of us grew up in that neighborhood, some had never set foot in it, and plenty of us had no idea what we were doing. Our kids, ages three to seventeen, hauled branches and swung tools nearly as long as they were tall — and they were delighted.

Here's what I watched them figure out: A park is where a kid gets to be free. It's where you run, where you pretend to be a superhero, where the ground belongs to you. And you assume it just shows up. That morning, our children learned that it doesn't. Somebody has to see what it could be. Somebody has to partner with the people who own it and the people who use it. And then somebody has to pick up the loppers. That was the most honest civics lesson my son has ever had, and unfortunately, that is where the problem is.

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