citizens

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Trust in institutions and fellow citizens has declined, and many young people have come of age amid political polarization, technological and economic change, unhinged social media, Covid-era isolation and geopolitical uncertainty.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

“We have been working within this system as private citizens for really a long time, and that’s the truth.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Many projects, like the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial and African American history museum, began as the deferred dreams of ordinary citizens.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

She dedicated her victory to the "thousands of ordinary citizens" made to similarly prove their innocence at "the cost of economic and emotional ruin".

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Few Russian women who became pilots in the Soviet Union’s state-sponsored clubs in the 1980s and early 1990s can afford to fly as private citizens now that the Soviet Union no longer exists.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein