Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2018 Video & Audio

Mayor as Conveners

Listen or watch Kansas City Mayor Sly James and Drexel's Bruce Katz on making real urban change. Hint: It takes collaboration. Then vote for their idea

Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2018 Video & Audio

Public Spaces, Civic Health

Listen or watch NYU professor Eric Klinenberg on shaping public spaces to keep communities healthy and connected. Then vote for his homegrown idea

Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2018 Video & Audio

Faith, The Racial Divide, and Building Community

Listen or watch the Reverends Michael Eric Dyson, Chuck Mingo and Bill Golderer preach faith, community, race—and hope

Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2018 Video & Audio

Mitigating Gentrification, A Public Health Approach

Listen or watch Portland's Cat Goughnour idea for putting community members first in shaping their neighborhoods

Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2018

A Fair Shot for All

In an excerpt from his recent book, a Facebook co-founder proposes an idea for levelling the economic playing field: A guaranteed $500 a month for the poor. He’ll talk more about it at next week’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival

By Chris Hughes
Ideas We Should Steal

Barbershop Confessions

Black men are among the most traumatized people in the country, and also the least likely to seek help. That’s why an Arkansas man is bringing mental health help to where they are: barbershops

By Michaela Haas
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2018

Calling BS

Author Anand Giridharadas discusses his provocative new book, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

By Larry Platt
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2018

Michael Eric Dyson

The bestselling author will talk about repairing race relations at The Citizen’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival on the 30th

By Larry Platt
Ideas We Should Steal

Make Voting Easy

In Oregon and 12 other states, voters are automatically registered to vote. In 16, they can register on election day. In several counties and states, voting is done by mail. All have higher turnouts than in PA

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2018

Political Compromise

In an excerpt from his memoir, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper writes of working with politicians on both sides of the aisle. He’ll talk about bringing reason to politics at our Ideas We Should Steal Festival on the 30th

By John Hickenlooper with Maximillian Potter