From a grocery store parking lot in Tucson, AZ to a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. From a teenager named Trayvon Martin to the children of Sandy Hook Elementary. The narrative about gun violence in America has chan…

Beginner

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Mark Glaze, Peter Ambler, Shannon Watts, Stephen Geer

Global memes add snark and commentary to politics. Memes have helped citizens around the world express political support and dissent: from the meme that helped a cat run for office in Mexico, to the goats that parodied O…

Intermediate

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Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Ben Valentine, Elena Agapie, Katy Pearce

The Founding Fathers were do-it-yourselfers, from Jefferson's explicit idealization of the self-sufficient yeoman farmer to Franklin's intrepid experimentation with electricity. Over the centuries, a return to this kind …

Intermediate

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Alice Brooks, Dylan Tweney, Eric Gradman, Mitch Altman

To bolster our startup communities, strong collaboration is required for success. Policymakers at the local, state, and federal level can be a powerful partner for advancing startup ecosystems. One of the major problems …

Intermediate

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Brandon Pollak, Darrell Issa, Gregory Ferenstein, Suzan Delbene

Building a tech product takes a lot of time and focus. Ensuring the market exists to create and sell that product takes just a little more. While what’s happening in Washington is heavily guided by special interests, the…

Intermediate

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Gene Austin, Kevin Callahan, Michael McGeary

When the Texas Legislature took up abortion legislation, planned and spontaneous social media filled the Capitol with thousands of activists and delivered a global participatory audience. Celebrities tweeted as an 11-hou…

Intermediate

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Eliza Vielma, Erica Grieder, Joe Deshotel, Steven Polunsky

In 2012, consumer advocate and Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren built the strongest grassroots digital program in Senate history. The Massachusetts Senate campaign raised more money from small-dollar online donors …

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Amanda Coulombe, Lauren Miller, Mike Firestone, Mindy Myers

To build the Obama campaign (and other campaigns up and down the ballot), a corporation's worth of technical infrastructure had to be built in a fraction of the time. From deep targeting across channels to community orga…

Intermediate

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Amy Gershkoff, Andrew Bleeker, John Lee, Rayid Ghani

A virtual conversation with Glenn Greenwald on the future of journalism, civil liberties and politics, with Micah Sifry of Personal Democracy Media.……

Intermediate

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Glenn Greenwald, Micah Sifry

United States Congressman Michael McCaul calls Austin home and loves music. He is also the most powerful member of the U.S. House of Representatives on matters of Homeland Security (as Chairman of that Committee). At SXS…

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Daryl Friedman, Michael McCaul