Building an Economy for the Common Good

What is the economy for—and whom should it serve? Can it, and should it, serve the common good?

Building Resilience: Insights on Strengthening and Adapting North Carolina’s Child and Family-Serving Systems

Our actions in the coming months and years must be more attuned to the risks families and local communities identify as most urgent and the solutions they most value.

New Mexico’s Free-Child-Care Gamble

The Atlantic

Family Policy and Labor Policy are Inseparable—This Data Shows Why

A new analysis shows that family policy is foundational to the people and professions that keep the U.S. healthy, safe, and connected.

AI and Family Policy: Comment for the Senate HELP Committee

Last week, Joe Waters, Co-Founder and CEO of Capita, sent a letter to Sen. Bill Cassidy and Sen. Bernie Sanders, Chair and Ranking Member of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the United States Senate, urging them to ensure that families are central to AI governance.

The Consequences of America’s Moral Drift

The Washington Post

Commentary: Flourishing Families Will Give SC the Future it Deserves

The Post and Courier

When AI Meets Families: What We Learned From Bringing These Worlds Together

Families don't just experience technological change, they register its impact first.

On Deep Hospitality

Three snapshots from my life have shaped how I understand ‘deep hospitality’—and continue to guide my work at Capita.

Perspective: The real crisis behind falling birthrates is a loss of hope

Deseret News

Families: Our Early Warning System in the Age of AI

This essay is adapted from opening remarks by Caroline Cassidy at the “AI & Family Futures Roundtable,” a virtual convening hosted by Capita, the AI for Good Foundation, and the Georgetown Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues in September 2025.

Four Global Transformations Reshaping Family Life

Technological change, climate change and ecological degradation, demographic shifts, and political shifts

Frank Porter Graham and the Legacy of Social Security

NC Newsline

Why Family Stability Belongs on the Education Agenda

Students deserve a recalibrated agenda incorporating both schools and families

Time for a Truce in the Mommy Wars

Compact Magazine

A Conversation with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Without compassion, we can’t call ourselves human beings.

A Unified Family Policy Agenda for the U.S.

The Unifying Family Policy series reimagines key areas of family policy as interconnected threads in a shared tapestry.

Mental Models of Mental Health

Whether we want to or not, we have to reckon with the idea of AI therapy.

Democrats: From Programs to Policy—a New Vision for Families

The Fulcrum

Flourishing and Hope: A New Lens on the Birth Rate Conversation

Caring for the Neoliberal Soul: A conversation with Bruce Rogers-Vaughn

Is capitalism, especially the neoliberal variety of the last 50 years or so, destroying our relational and psychological health?

Politics, Pluralism, and the Liberal Tradition

by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The Fundamentals We Return To

In the face of uncertainty, we return to what endures: the fundamentals of care, solidarity, and meaning. These aren’t abstract ideals, but the practical foundations of how we live, grieve, and transform.

Disconnected Generation: Addressing Loneliness & Social Disconnection Among North Carolina’s Youth and Families

The Long March of the Machines

AI companions and the final triumph of machine culture

The Other Greedy Jobs

Some jobs require a breadwinner/homemaker division of labor and that cannot be changed.

Climate action plans: cities must do more to protect children from the impacts of climate change