Vox  “Ben Bernanke explains what Donald Trump gets wrong on the economy” (Jim Tankersley, 06/06/17)

Duluth News Tribune “Our View: Parade disinterest part of troubling trend” (New Tribune Editorial Board, 05/16/17)

Youthtoday “Out-of-School Time Organizations Play Pivotal Role” (Stell Simonton, 05/01/17)

Quartz “Filming Takes Place in Springfield for Documentary to Air Nationwide on PBS“ (Michael Skalicky, 04/26/17)

Quartz “There’s a better way to celebrate take your kids to work day: Taking someone else’s kid instead” (Richard Reeves, 04/24/17)

The Harvard Crimson “Daily Katrina: Education is a Three Front War” (John Muresianu, 03/24/17)

Media Policy Center, Vimeo “Robert Putnam speaking about ‘Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis’” (03/04/17)

Robert Putnam speaking about “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” from Media Policy Center on Vimeo. New York Times “Where Americans Come Together” (Mary Pilon, 01/27/17) Wired “How Pollsters Missed the ‘Bowling Alone’ Voters that Handed Trump the Presidency” (Garret Graff, 11/15/16) Freakonomics ” Trust Me” (Stephen Dubner, produced by Greg Rosalsky, 11/10/16) The Economist “Voters and the media: How Americans’ media habits can predict how they will vote” (I.K., 11/07/16) Brookings Institute “Trouble in the land of early childhood education?” (Ron Haskins & Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, 10/26/16) Harvard Business Review “Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry” (Dorie Clark, 10/20/16) Grapple Podcast “Breaking Down the American Dream with Robert Putnam” (Naomi Starobin, 10/06/16) The Boston Globe “Our opportunity nation“ (Alan Khazei & John Bridgeland, 09/09/16) Boise State Public Radio “Author Robert Putnam on the Divergent Opportunities for America’s Children“ (Bob Kustra, 08/12/16) Vox “This election isn’t about right vs. left. It’s about “we” vs. “I.“” (Harold Pollack, 08/08/16) The Brookings Institute”Social Mobility: A promise that could still be kept“ (Richard Reeves & Isabel Sawhill, 07/29/16) Vox “The Vox Conversation: Hillary Clinton” (Ezra Klein, 07/11/16) Fox News Talkshow: Talkenomics “Ep. 5 – Robert Putnam – The American Dream in Crisi: USA Becoming Two Class Society, Rich and Poor” (04/04/16) Conversations with Bill Kristol “Robert D. Putnam on our Civic Life in Decline” (Bill Kristol, 3/13/16) New York Times “America’s Stacked Deck” (Nicholas Kristof, 2/18/16) Harvard Graduate School of Education Podcast “Harvard EdCast: Cynics with Good Reason” (Matt Weber, 2/10/16) U.S. News “The Rich and the Rest” (Christina Pazzanese, 2/09/16) London Review of Books “The Inequality Problem” (Ed Miliband, 2/04/16) CommonWealth “The downsides of Prop. 2 1/2 and Community Preservation Act” (Lawrence Dicara & Michael Nicholson, 12/17/15) Het Financiële Dagblad “Het is niet meer zo dat de beste klimmers het hoogst komen” (Cees van Lotringen, 11/27/15)*-** The John Adams Institute “Amerikaan heft lot niet in eigen hand” (Gus Vaalk, 10/31/15)** Royal Society of Arts “RSA Replay: Closing the Opportunity Gap“ (RSA Replay, 10/14/15) The Federalist “The Trouble with Kids Today” (Charles Murray, 9/17/15) National Association of Evangelicals “The Growing Class Gap Among American Young People” (Leith Anderson & Robert Putnam, 9/15/15) Public Radio International “When you can’t play ball for your school because you’re poor” (Kirk Carapezza, 9/15/15) Politico “Politico 50: Robert Putnam” (9/10/15) MPRNews “Aspen Ideas Festival: Robert Putnam on ‘Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” (8/14/15) LinkedIn “LinkedIn Speaker Series: Robert Putnam” (8/13/15) Radio Boston “In New Book, Bowling Alone’ Author Examines Impact of Economic Inequality on Kids” (5/27/15) Detroit Public TV “Robert Putnam on Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis – 2015 L.A. Times Festival of Books” (5/4/15) The New York Review of Books “Unhappy Days in America” (Nicholas Lemann, 5/21/15) Washington Post “Politicians must get bolder about treating America’s urban problems” (Michael Gerson, 5/4/15) The Economist “Minding the nurture gap” (3/21/15) The New Yorker “Richer and Poorer” (Jill LePore, 3/16/15) New York Times. “’Our Kids,’ by Robert D. Putnam” (Jason DeParle, 3/4/15)

The American Conservative “Is the Religious Right to Blame for Christianity’s Decline?” (George Hawley, 06/05/17) Ottawa Citizen “How public discourse is harmed by social media mobbing” (Dylan mcGuinty, 06/02/17) East Village Magazine “Glory days in rearview mirror for Flint high school sports: resurrection might be in the works” (Harold Ford, 06/01/17) Inside Sources “Erosion of Social Capital a Major Problem, Say Experts” (Politics, 05/17/2017) National Review “Mike Lee Wants to Stop America from Coming Apart” (Robert Verbruggen, 05/17/2017) The Federalist “To Repair Our Fractured Republic, Get To Know Your Neighbors” (Gracy Olmstead, 05/17/2017) Duluth News Tribune “Our View: Parade disinterest part of troubling trend” (New Tribune Editorial Board, 05/16/17) Youthtoday “Out-Of-School Time Organizations Play Pivotal Role” (Stell Simonton, 05/01/17) Inside UCR “Did you Know” (04/31/17) Springfield News-Leader “Our Voice: Early signs say poverty plan on track” (04/29/17) The San Diego Union-Tribune “Virtual reality may pose real problems for our lonely planet” (Chris Reed, 04/27/17) The Economist “John Kasich’s lament” (04/27/17) KSMU Ozark Public Radio “Filming Takes Place in Springfield for Documentary to Air Nationwide on PBS” (Michele Skalicky, 04/26/17) Oxford Academic “Robert D. Putnam: Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” (Tim Reeskens, 04/25/17) The Atlantic “What if Politicians Studied the Social Fabric like Economists Studied GDP” (Annie Lowrey, 04/24/17) Economics21 “America’s Fraying Social Ties” (Charles Hughes, 04/23/17) StarTribune “Fed leaders: Job disparity data becoming more important to central bank’s decisions” (Evan Ramstad, 04/23/17) Suffolk University Boston “Political Scientist Robert D. Putnam: Let Your Lives Speak Louder Than Your Words” (Greg Gatlin, 04/21/17) Desert News Utah “Fraying social fabric hurting nation’s economy, Sen. Mike Lee says” (Dennis Romboy, 04/21/2017) Washington Examiner “What we do together – civil society, not government” (Washington Examiner, 04/21/2017) TribLive “Some Rotary, Kiwanis clubs in Western Pennsylvania struggle to avoid collapse” (Matthew Santoni, 04/09/17) Breakpoint “Religion and Inequality” (Eric Metaxes & Roberto Rivera, 04/05/17) Sentinel & Enterprise “Putnam talks inequality during Fitchburg State seminar” (Amanda Burke, 04/05/17) TribLive “Expert on challenges of coal country to lecture at Pitt” (Ben Schmitt, 04/03/17) Bloomberg View “How Utah Keeps the American Dream Alive” (Megan McArdle, 03/28/17) Huffington Post “Collecting Apples and Polishing Chestnuts: If Only…” (Karen Gross, 03/20/17) Winona Daily News “Q&A: Climing out of our bunkers – a conversation with Michael Gerson” (03/19/17) Phys.org “Sensitive genotypes yield disadvantage in poor families, but advantage in wealthier ones” (03/13/17) Fast Company “How Will the Rise of Crowdfunding Reshape How We Give to Charity?” (Ben Paynter, 03/13/17) The Christian Post “Christians: We Should Be More Neighborly” (Eric Metaxas, 03/11/17) Watertown Public Opinion “How social media stands to heal political divides – if only we’d let it” (Chandra Johnson, 03/09/17) Tufts Daily “NPR correspondent moderates panel on civic life post-election” (Daniel Nelson, 03/08/17) Washington Post “Americans have lost faith in institutions. That’s not because of Trump or ‘fake news’” (Bill Bishop, 03/03/17) Quad-City Times “Quad-Cities respond to children in crisis” (Deirdre Cox Baker, 02/27/17) Quartz Media “Bill Gates has humble expectations for the biggest issue tech can solve in the next 10 years” (Sarah Kessler, 02/27/17) Our Quad Cities “Is the American Dream an idea of the past?” (Tahera Rahman, 02/07/17) Huffington Post “It’s Not American Carnage. It Is An Urban Crisis.“ (Robert Hall, 01/27/17) Huffington Post “It’s Not American Carnage. It Is An Urban Crisis.“ (Robert Hall, 01/27/17) PopDust “Do You Use Social Media as a Television or a Telephone?” (George Robson, 01/30/17) Huffington Post “The New Religion: Destructive Escalation” (Robert Hall, 01/27/17) Prospect”Turning the March into a Movement” (Peter Dreier & Donald Cohen, 01/24/17) Education Week “College Readiness: Are Different Definitions Driving Inequality?” (Marc Tucker, 01/19/17) StarTribune “Minneapolis Fed launches institute to tackle racial and economic disparities“ (Adam Belz, 01/18/17) The Florida Times-Union “America must deal with the scourge of child poverty“ (Adam Belz, 01/18/17) Huffington Post “Separate and Unequal, That’s America for Our Kids, says Robert Putnam” (Dora Calot Wang, 01/09/17) WLRN “Robert Putnam” (Joseph Cooper, Bonnie Berman, Richard Ives & Polly Landes, 01/09/17) Saint James Plaindealer “Grow Our Own summit inspires attendees to work to support all southwest Minnesota kids” (01/09/17) University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Newsbeat “Poor kids in America lose out as income disparities widen” (Cindy Foster, 01/09/17) The Beacon “Port Clinton City Council votes unanimously to support Voice to Vision” (Jasmine Cupp, 01/04/17) Pensacola News Journal “Viewpoint: Be more civically engaged in 2017” (Amy Miller and Diane Mack, 12/31/16) Daily Globe “Closing the gap: Marshall conference explores on-ramps for southwest Minnesota children” (Karl Evers-Hillstrom, 12/15/16) Marshall Independent “Looking to the future – our children” (Deb Gau, 12/15/16) Huffington Post “A Manifesto for American Education” (Joseph Gauld, 12/15/16) Quad-City Times “Gap widens between rich and poor, Harvard expert says” (Brian Wellner, 12/14/16) Dispatch-Argus “Editorial: Why join battle to close opportunity gap for Q-C kids?” (12/14/16) Cato Journal “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis“ (Matt Warner, Winter 2016) The Commercial Appeal “Asking what people want” (Ted Evanoff, 11/19/16) The Philadelphia Citizen “OMG. The Election Results Forced Me to Realize I’m a Cultural Elitist” (Larry Platt, 11/18/16) Inside Philanthropy “Hollowed Out: Big Donors, Inequality, and the Threat to Civil Society” (David Callahan, 11/17/16) NewsMax “Trump’s Election Leading Some to Change Holiday Plans” (Todd Beamon, 11/15/16) The Straits Times “The case for building new HDB flats in the city centre” (Wu Wei Neng & Louisa-May Koo, 11/04/16) Charlotte Observer “Are elected officials committed to fixing Charlotte’s affordable housing shortage?” (Mike Rizer, 11/03/16) The Future of Children “Trouble in the Land of Early Childhood Education?” (Ron Haskins & Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Fall 2016) The 74 “What Would Hillary Do on Education? Community-Focused Reading List Offers Clues” (Conor Williams, 10/26/16) Boonville Daily News “Schools look to strengthen as families weaken” (R.D. Hohenfeldt, 10/22/16) Youth Today  “Afterschool Alliance Report: Add After-school programs to High-Poverty Areas to Close Achievement Gap” (Stell Simonton, 10/07/16) CityLab from the Atlantic “What If No One Is Actually Bowling Alone?” (Richard Florida, 10/04/16) The Columbian  “Panel looks at American Dream, inequality” (Troy Brynelson, 10/09/16) Grapple Podcast “Episode 06: Breaking Down the American Dream with Robert Putnam” (Naomi Starobin, 10/05/16) Huffington Post “Thrive More” (Chris Norwood, 10/03/16) AEIdeas “Acting together without being acted upon: Civil society conservatism” (Andy Smarick, 10/03/16) Pensacola News Journal “Escambia County children deserve more reading time” (Randy Hammer, 10/01/16) Texas A&M Liberal Arts “A full house for Common Ground” (Heather Rodriguez, 09/30/16) Hillsboro United “Service clubs struggle as members age and volunteerism evolves” (Stephanie Haugen, 09/29/16) The Torch “‘Our Kids’” (Patrick Griffin, 09/28/16) The New York Times “Modern Housing With Village Virtues“ (Courtney Martin, 09/20/16) The Atlantic “What America Lost as Women Entered the Workforce“ (Emma Green, 09/19/16) The Federalist “How The Collapse of American Community Has Fed Donald Trump“ (John Daniel Davidson, 09/19/16) The Daily Journal “Social capital in education reform“ (Jonathan Madison, 09/13/16) Distraction with Dr. Ned Hallowell “Robert Putnam on Why You Should Care About Other People’s Kids“ (Dr. Ned Hallowell, 09/08/16) Huffington Post “An American Elegy“ (Frank Islam & Ed Crego, 09/06/16) Philanthropy Roundtable “Beware of Blind Spots“ (Michael Gerson & Peter Wehner, Summer 2016) live mint “The economic value of trust” (Roshan Kishore, 08/24/16) The Daily Ardmoreite “Putting ‘Our Kids,’ child poverty on the political agenda“ (Rick Holmes, 08/08/16) The Irish Times “Inequality is the scourge of every generation“ (Paul Gillespie, 08/06/16) Connecticut by the numbers “Pay to Play Worsens Widening Economic Gap Evident in America’s Schools, Putnam says in Hartford” (07/21/16) Reading Eagle “Basketball league shows power of bringing people together“ (Louis Shucker, 07/20/16) Sandusky Register “Clinton likes book by Port Clinton’s Putnam“ (Tom Jackson, 07/14/16) The Kansas City Star “Service clubs push against fading influence to find new members“ (Ruth Serven, 07/10/16) Catholic Philly “American Dream is slipping through the class divides“ (Father William J. Byron, 06/28/16) The Wichita Eagle “Building a strong ‘we’“ (Mark McCormick, 06/27/16) Monadnock Ledger-Transcript “Growing divide between affluent and poor students“ (Ashley Saari, 06/27/16) Charleston Gazette-Mail “Sanders, Trump differ on how to restore chance to live American Dream” (James A. White, 05/29/16) New York Times “The Fragmented Society“ (David Brooks, 05/20/16) New York Times “Don’t Blame Diversity for Distrust“ (Maria Abascal & Belia Baldassarri, 05/20/16) American Enterprise Institute “American nostalgia, but for the wrong era” (Michael Barone, 05/16/16) Post-Bulletin “The Education Village at WSU: Transforming teachers and our future” (James E. Shul, 05/13/16) Vox “The wealthier you get, the less social you are. Here’s why it matters” (Josh Rosenblat, 05/05/16) WDEL 101.7 FM “Harvard Researcher: Opportunity gap grows as child’s success depends on parents’ socioeconomic status” (Amy Cherry, 05/03/16) The Okhlahoman “Family talk: both families, communities must help bridge the opportunity gap” (Jim Priest, 05/02/16) Springfield Business Journal “Without Action, Poverty hole could sink city” (Eric Olson, 05/02/16) Christian Science Monitor “How a ‘parenting arms race’ is causing kids to grow up segregated” (Jessica Mendoza, 04/27/16) Argus Leader “Now is the time to invest in ‘Our Kids‘” (Randell Beck, 04/27/16) American Enterprise Institute “New York exceptionalism and Donald Trump” (Michael Barone, 04/18/16) Springfield News-Leader “It’s up to Springfield to provide opportunities for all” (Mike White, 04/16/16) Washington Post “This research from Nigeria shows us how a government can build a tax base” (Adrienne LaBas, 04/15/16) Springfield News-Leader “Return on investment in early childhood education speaks for itself” (Dana Carroll, 04/15/16) KSMU Ozarks Public Radio “Closing Opportunity Gap, Harvard Professor Praises Springfield’s Efforts “(Han Zhao, 04/09/16) Springfield News-Leader “Harvard’s Robert Putnam addresses Springfield’s poverty alleviation efforts” (Alissa Zhu, 04/08/16) Huffington Post “An Encore of Service” (John Bridgeland and Shirley Sagawa, 04/07/16) Media Policy Center “Our Kids, Hosted by Robert Putnam“ (04/01/16) Sentinel & Enterprise “His solution to class gap? Community” (Peter Jasinski, 03/26/16) The News & Observer “Christensen: It’s all about the blues in the economy” (Rob Christensen, 03/25/16) PRX Radio from Reader’s Corner with Bob Kustra “Robert Putnam, author of ‘Our Kids‘” (Bob Kustra 03/24/16) yes! Magazine “How Can Public Schools Stop Amplifying Inequality?“ (Bill Bigelow, 03/21/16) The Observer “Lecture explores effects of modern socioeconomic gap” (Courtney Becker, 03/18/16) Lexington Minuteman “Rep. Jay Kaufman’s ‘Open House’ to feature Harvard professor Robert Putnam” (03/14/16) Atlanta NPR, 90.1 WABE “Commentary: Education Can Bridge Atlanta’s ‘Opportunity Gap’”  (Maria Saporta, 03/09/16) Back to the Top Winter 2015 Saporta Report “Robert Putnam and Atlanta leaders seek to bridge ‘opportunity gap'” (Maria Saporta, 03/07/16) Harvard Gazette “The costs of inequality: Education’s the one key that rules them all” (02/15/16) The Norman Transcript “Harvard Professor, author Robert Putnam imparts wisdom at OU” (01/21/16) OU Daily “Harvard professor speaks at OU about impact of economic inequality on children “ (Derric Cushman, 01/20/16) The Beacon “Rick Santorum talks about Port Clinton at Republican “ (John Shaffner, 01/20/16) Fortune “How to Use Your Network to Become a Power Connector“ (Avery Blank, 01/20/16) The Atlantic “The Importance of High-School Mentors” (Alyza Sebenius, 01/13/16) the guardian “Inequality is a problem schools alone can’t fix” (Tristram Hunt, 01/12/16) BBC News “David Cameron pledges ‘assault on poverty’  with social reforms” (01/11/16)