Civic engagement rarely begins in a vague email or at the registrar’s office. It really begins in late-night dorm talks, over dining hall meals, and with hushed study sessions in the campus library.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. If this were a normal year, volunteers for Al Gross would have begun knocking on ...

Glenna Huber and Andrew Connors recently served as cochairs of Baltimoreans United in Leader­ship Development. BUILD is a multiracial, interfaith organization that works to improve jobs, schools, and ...

In Tonya Williams’ Mississippi family, they all vote. But last year, Williams’ uncle mentioned offhandedly that he hadn’t voted in an election for several years. Shocked, she helped him make a plan.

We’re in desperate need of broad-based community organizing these days. Many of the most tangible injustices in our world, both large and small, appear to be unresolvable through straightforward ...