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Ports 1961 is the brainchild of Tia Cibani, 33, a designer of Italian-Libyan parentage and Canadian citizenship whose international background and itinerant lifestyle inform the look of her eclectic and coolly modern clothes...
America could really use a civics lesson. And it's about to get one. The National Conference on Citizenship, a federally chartered nonprofit founded in 1946 to strengthen civic ties, will release the first Civic Health Index next week, tracking changes in the awareness and engagement of the citizenry over the past three decades. It presents a bleak picture--steep declines in most of the 40 measures that were analyzed, including how much people trust one another and major institutions, and their connections to their communities. The index offers a couple of bright spots: more citizens, especially young ones, vote...
...John Bridgeland, CEO of Civic Enterprises, and Robert Putnam, Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. Both are on the advisory board of the National Conference on Citizenship...
...issue of "border security." Most Republicans have concluded that a hard-line approach focused on tightening the U.S.-Mexico border is the best political play this season. Neither the broad package of reforms negotiated by the Senate, which would have produced a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for the 12 million illegal immigrants now in the country, nor the more limited program envisioned by House conservative leader Mike Pence has any momentum. Both proposals have been set aside in favor of a series of bills already making their way through the system that will fund fences, border...
...primary allegiance is to Jesus Christ," he explained, "and we are known... for our citizenship in the Kingdom of God rather than any earthly polity, and that is a clear and unambiguous teaching in the New Testament." Mohler is not a great colloquialist, but, as you might expect, he has an extremely well-developed and internally consistent worldview. The Apostle Paul, he pointed out, at one point refers to Christians as "resident aliens...