Citizen Who Hits Arizona

Eric Liu’s One-Man Show Gets a Second Performance—and Continues to Evolve

Eric Liu is an author, educator, and civic entrepreneur. But in his one-man show, Citizen Who, he is also a storyteller, a violin player, and an actor who embodies the lives, disappointments, and dreams of a diverse group of people in order to explore basic notions about what it means to be an American.

The second performance of Citizen Who, which Liu wrote and produced as part of his fellowship at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University, took place in front of a full house at the Stage …

Citizen Liu in Citizen Who

A Civic Entrepreneur Tackles Citizenship In a New Debut

The premiere performance of Citizen Who—a one-man show written and produced as part of author and civic entrepreneur Eric Liu’s fellowship at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State …

Familiar Yet Unfamiliar America

Photographs By Chad Ress Of How We Gather

For the past year, photographer Chad Ress, a fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University, has been crisscrossing the United States to capture in photographs how Americans gather …

Eleven Nations, Most Under God

Colin Woodard Maps the Real America

The Seal of the United States promises one nation formed from many–e pluribus unum. But journalist Colin Woodard says the reality is different: America is 11 distinct nations.

“We never really …

Keeping the United States United

At Washington Conference, Studying What Divides and Unites Americans

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor opened a conference on social cohesion in the United States by offering up the method of bringing people together she used as majority …