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Today we look at how shifting political norms test the Constitution, where multinationalism is spurned and sought, completeness (despite discomfort) in a historical record, and promises around social equity聽in higher ed.

First, the weekend was bookended by a climate strike and .听

Urgency can bring out fighters. 鈥淲e need to get angry and understand what is at stake,鈥� teen climate activist 聽recently. For Emily Atkin, anger was the motivator for her blog, Heated. 鈥淚 strongly believe that anger, carefully directed, is essential to ... effective action,鈥� .听

But hope is a motivator, too, even among longtime warriors you鈥檇 expect to be tired.听

鈥淲e have the technology we need,鈥� Al Gore , calling for the will to deploy it. 鈥淲e鈥檙e dancing as nimbly as we can,鈥� , writing from an imagined 2050, a time of global trust, 鈥渁nd so far we haven鈥檛 crashed.鈥澛�

Hope is not a strategy, but it can be a constructive orientation.听One essayist worries that nurturing her son鈥檚 love for nature 鈥� not just teaching him to combat its perceived enemies 鈥� might set him up for a hard future if losses mount.听

鈥淸K]ids who play in the woods become adults who [take] care of the planet,鈥� . 鈥淏ut ultimately, it wasn鈥檛 the statistics that made up my mind. It was a feeling 鈥� hope.听Taking our son camping has become my stubborn way of hanging onto hope that a beautiful future is still possible.鈥�