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1 month ago | 
tandfonline.com | Danielle Allen |Eirini Flouri |Bonamy R. Oliver
ABSTRACTChildren’s social competence enables the maintenance of social interactions with others and is linked to diverse positive outcomes. Existing studies rarely distinguish shared-family factors that explain differences between families from those that explain social competence differences between siblings. In particular, despite general interest in twins’ social competence, little is known about differences between twins in the same family.
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Robert George |Andy Crouch |Danielle Allen |Yuval Levin
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2 months ago | 
theatlantic.com | Danielle Allen
The life of the mind may be a deeply personal thing, but as embodied in colleges and universities, it is also a very public thing—and the two go hand in hand. Since taking office, the Trump administration has been working to dismantle the global order and the nation’s core institutions, including its cultural ones, to strip them of their power. The future of the nation’s universities is very much at stake. This is not a challenge that can be met with purely defensive tactics.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
journalofdemocracy.org | Danielle Allen |E. Glen Weyl |Sarah Kreps |Doug Kriner
As artificial intelligence continues to advance at breakneck speed and world powers vie against each other in the AI arms race, democracies are searching for ways to control a technology that is transforming our lives while threatening to break our democratic guardrails. Read the following Journal of Democracy essays from leading AI experts on the dangers that lie ahead and how we might stave off a crisis.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
msn.com | Danielle Allen
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
theatlantic.com | Danielle Allen
On Inauguration Day, many felt real euphoria at the prospect of a wholesale renovation of America’s institutions. And, as I’ve argued often, our constitutional democracy does need renovation—the various elites are disconnected from the people, bureaucracy afflicts everyone, and many of us find it impossible to hold our elected officials accountable. Yet I fear that the renovations we’re about to get will take us in the wrong direction.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Danielle Allen
October 14, 2024 at 11:04 a.m. EDTThe health of our democracy concerns many of us right now. Anxiety is surging over stories of conflict and political violence around the nation — from assassination attempts to shootings at campaign offices. Yet there are glimmers of good news, too. Green shoots of democracy are growing all around us, if we care to look. Last week, the National Civic League launched a Healthy Democracy Ecosystem Map.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Danielle Allen |Kathleen Shaw |David Schmidt |Priya McDonald
ABSTRACTThe study reported here investigated what enables emergency department (ED) staff to support domestic violence victim-survivors of strangulation, which poses potentially life-threatening medical and psychosocial risks. Informed by Appreciative Inquiry, interviews were conducted with twelve staff from eight emergency departments in New South Wales, Australia.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
democracyjournal.org | Danielle Allen |Carah Ong Whaley
The ongoing period of democratic backsliding in the United States and around the world, characterized by pernicious polarization, declining trust in democratic institutions, and a troubling openness of citizens to non-democratic alternatives, highlights an urgent need for a renewed focus on civic education.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
democracyjournal.org | Donna Edwards |Joshua Manuel Bonet |Danielle Allen |Carah Ong Whaley
“Congress is broken.” This common refrain inside and outside of Washington embodies a sentiment shared by the political right and left alike—that Congress is failing to meet its obligations to the American people. Recent public opinion surveys have borne out Americans’ lack of faith in our legislative branch: According to Gallup, Americans trust Congress less than all other government institutions and leaders, at a level of just 32 percent.
