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Vital Questions for Troubled Times

Feb 6

Vital Questions for Troubled Times

Feb 6

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Reasons for Hope, Yes Hope, in 2025

By Suzette Brooks Masters

Jan 26

Reasons for Hope, Yes Hope, in 2025

Jan 26

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Reimagining the Four Questions

Apr 5, 2023

Reimagining the Four Questions

Apr 5, 2023

It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day: A Time to Reflect on Our Dark Past to Chart a Brighter Future

An Idiosyncratic Guide to Essential Memorials & Museums

Jan 27, 2024

It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day: A Time to Reflect on Our Dark Past to Chart a Brighter Future

Jan 27, 2024

24 bright spots to inspire you in 2024

As a new year dawns, it’s hard not to feel anxiety about what’s coming next — from pivotal elections to technological and demographic…

Jan 4, 2024

24 bright spots to inspire you in 2024

Jan 4, 2024

Innovation Can Reboot American Democracy

Our Future Depends on Democracy Entrepreneurs

Jul 17, 2023

Innovation Can Reboot American Democracy

Jul 17, 2023

Reimagining American Democracy as Governance for the Future

I recently published Imagining Better Futures for American Democracy after extensive research on what governance innovations might make…

Mar 31, 2023

Reimagining American Democracy as Governance for the Future

Mar 31, 2023

Reversing Imagination Atrophy: A New Year’s Resolution for Our Times

I am a doer, not a hoper. I’m a planner, not a dreamer. I look at the dark, scary stuff head on, unflinchingly. I think in terms of…

Dec 31, 2022

Reversing Imagination Atrophy: A New Year’s Resolution for Our Times

Dec 31, 2022

What would a WWII vet think today? Reflections on my dad’s 100th birthday

Dad would have turned 100 today. I’ve missed him terribly these last 14 years, but I’m glad he was spared the wrenching disruptions we’ve…

May 10, 2022

What would a WWII vet think today? Reflections on my dad’s 100th birthday

May 10, 2022

9/11: Our Collective Trauma Still Lingers

Like a lot of Americans, I lost my sense of invulnerability on 9/11, shedding yet another vestige of American exceptionalism. I was…

Sep 11, 2021

9/11: Our Collective Trauma Still Lingers

Sep 11, 2021

Deep Canvassing: a better way to persuade in our divided times

Non-Judgmental Listening and Story Sharing Changes Attitudes Around Contentious Issues and Heals our Divides

Jul 8, 2021

Deep Canvassing: a better way to persuade in our divided times

Jul 8, 2021

The Diner: Putting Human Connection on the Menu

For the last twenty years, my mother has frequented a diner on the Upper West Side of Manhattan near her home. It’s called Cafe 82. Given…

Jun 16, 2021

The Diner: Putting Human Connection on the Menu

Jun 16, 2021

America’s Pluralism Experiment Can Succeed

A diverse sisterhood of strangers showed me how

Apr 26, 2021

America’s Pluralism Experiment Can Succeed

Apr 26, 2021

Alabama on my mind on Bloody Sunday

How civil rights and family history converged for me in Alabama

Mar 7, 2021

Alabama on my mind on Bloody Sunday

Mar 7, 2021

20 Reasons to be Thankful in 2020 (Yes, thankful)

I won’t lie. It’s hard to make a list of things to be grateful for with a pandemic raging, our democracy on the brink, deep divisions in…

Nov 23, 2020

20 Reasons to be Thankful in 2020 (Yes, thankful)

Nov 23, 2020

What I Learned from Texting in Divided America

For the last three months, I’ve been texting with voters in the swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and…

Nov 7, 2020

What I Learned from Texting in Divided America

Nov 7, 2020

HOW LOCAL INFLUENCERS CAN MODEL HEALING POST-ELECTION

A local newspaper begins a community conversation about a path forward

Oct 27, 2020

HOW LOCAL INFLUENCERS CAN MODEL HEALING POST-ELECTION

Oct 27, 2020

My Covid Birthday Dilemma

Celebrate the little things when big things loom large, but add a shot of radical honesty.

Oct 22, 2020

My Covid Birthday Dilemma

Oct 22, 2020

Can we make nationalism and immigration congruent in America again?

Lessons from two pivotal immigration moments of the 20th century

May 27, 2020

Can we make nationalism and immigration congruent in America again?

May 27, 2020

Change is Hard: Corona-level change is really hard.

For supporters of immigration and immigrants, crossing the pandemic portal requires a strategy reset, one that prioritizes gaining new…

Apr 27, 2020

Change is Hard: Corona-level change is really hard.

Apr 27, 2020

Suzette Brooks Masters

Suzette Brooks Masters

Let’s reimagine + strengthen our pluralistic democracy, make it truly inclusive + ensure it leaves nobody behind. I want to imagine better futures ahead!

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