VANCOUVER — Children's singer Raffi says he's planning a song about democracy written especially for young listeners. The "Baby Beluga" creator says the idea came to him about a week ago ...

In the months ahead, we will mark this semiquincentennial with service, storytelling and a renewed commitment to the values that have shaped our democracy ... we teach our kids about it.

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In our society, now fracturing along lines of distrust and polarization, play might be the civic training we need most to repair our democracy. Kids playing on the roadside in Ethiopia in 2016.

Kids understand what adults have forgotten, that play is not frivolous, that it is survival and that it heals.

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