If you have listened to the show for a while, a few months back, you may have heard an interview we had with Stephen Heintz, a co-chair of the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship . The commission is charged with discovering ways to activate participation of U.S. citizens in democratic civil life. So that's what they did. After spending two years and hundreds of hours talking with people all around the country about what’s working and what’s not, a group of 35 scholars, business