Civic Engagement: Make Our Voices Heard

This Monday a gunman shot and killed a police officer and a civilian, while wounding several others, within two streets of Texas A&M University. The tragedy came in the wake of two other shootings that occurred less than three weeks apart - one at a movie theatre in Colorado and another at a

According to a "recent report" by the Center for Economic Policy and Research, the United States is the only industrial nation that does not guarantee paid sick leave for workers suffering from either short-term or long-term illnesses. This shocking finding means that forty million Americans – 40%

The open Internet is central to people's freedom to communicate, share, advocate and innovate in the 21st century. But powerful interests want to censor free speech, block the sharing of information, hinder innovation and control how Internet users get online. All too often, people in power are

Last Saturday afternoon 25-year-old Manuel Diaz was chatting with two friends in his native Anaheim when a police car drove up with its lights on. What happened next is the subject of a heated controversy that has gained national attention over the past week. Allegedly, the police identified Manuel