Civics: the study of the rights and duties of citizenship

Useful resources:

The Civil Conversations Project (OnBeing)

The Weeds Podcast (Vox)

60-second civics podcast (Center for Civic Engagement)

Civics 101 podcast (NPR)

Useful articles:

• On the Importance of the Press In which President Obama talks about how democracies need a critical press in order to function
• Fix the Demand Side of News Too “We can’t just upgrade journalists. We, the people who use media mostly as consumers and sharers, have to upgrade ourselves, too.”
• Hannah Arendt on Loneliness as the Common Ground for Terror and How Tyrannical Regimes Use Isolation as a Weapon of Oppression
• lawfareblog.com has lots of useful legal analysis on current topics
• Google, democracy, and the truth about internet search 
• When Everything is a Lie, Power is the Only Truth “When fake news becomes omnipresent, all news becomes suspect.”
• Life in Authoritarian States is Mostly Boring and Tolerable “Americans have an overly dramatic view of what the end of democracy looks like.”
• Russia: Life After Trust on the importance of trust to civic life
• Unions and the Middle Class, pair with Unions are Basically Dead and Who Works For The Workers?
• What U.S. Citizens Can Learn From Colombia on the promise and strength of civil society
• This is Not Normal “This” meaning “Trump”
• This American Life on Voter Fraud (or the lack thereof)
• Harper’s on How To Rig An Election
• Wendell Berry on an economy of affection