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Need a more appropriate acronym? How about NICE: “Neighborhood Involvement and Community Engagement.”

At a time when political demagoguery courses like a pathogen through the veins of social media, we need, more than ever, to engage our communities with nonviolent action.

OPINION: I had to go to Paris. I considered what I might think of myself in 35 years. Would I wonder, “Did I do enough?”

It was pouring rain when the door finally swung open. Tourists, mostly elderly, slowly loaded on, collapsed umbrellas, stepped carefully into the aisle and removed wet, plastic ponchos.

My friend, sitting in his cabin in Fairbanks, held the July issue of Rolling Stone with Barack Obama over his head.

They watched us from behind black hoods. I chewed gum patiently, trying not to appear nervous.