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Our country’s youth may not be old enough to vote, but they are watching. And some even grow up to become young leaders. Iowa State Sen. Zach Wahls and 17 year old Eric Willoughby both went viral for their youth activism and talk about the importance of it at any age.
From Social Cohesion Lab:
A recent Yale University study suggests that the people of Emery County, Utah, a large but very sparsely populated region in the southeast corner of the state, have amongst the least belief in human-caused climate change in the United States.
For someone who believes that climate change is a real and serious problem, it can be easy to angrily dismiss the residents here as uneducated, conspiratorial, or anti-science. But, over the course of one hot summer, through intimate time spent with the locals, a much more complicated reality reveals itself.
Explore the documentary's chapters and read more about the project here.
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UNITE is a national initiative to ease divisions, prevent violence, and solve problems. UNITE designed the Dignity Index, an eight-point scale that measures the level of contempt or dignity in a selected passage of speech. Lower scores (1-4) reflect a lack of dignity and the presence of contempt, with the lowest score (1) showing the most contempt. The higher scores (5-8) reflect language grounded in dignity, with the highest score (8) showing the most dignity.
In September 2022, a team from the University of Utah that included the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, the David Eccles School of Business, and the Hinckley Institute of Politics joined the project UNITE effort to pilot the Dignity Index in Utah. With a team of 22 student coders from politically and ideologically diverse backgrounds, the Utah pilot tested using the Dignity Index in coding passages in Utah political campaigns.
"We're in a doom loop of toxic politics," says political reform scholar Lee Drutman. In this new video from Unite America, Drutman's doom loop theory is explained and we unpack how the doom loop threatens the very fabric of our nation.
How did we get here? What are the impacts of the doom loop? And most importantly, how do we get out?
Open Primaries is building a coalition of diverse Americans to enact open primaries in all 50 states.
Why do we need open primaries? Millions of independent voters - the fastest growing segment of the electorate - are excluded from voting in closed partisan primaries. Voters want to be able to choose from among all the candidates. Closed partisan primaries don't allow that.
