The National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) has announced the recipients of this year's Taylor L. Willingham Legacy Fund awards. They are Rodger J. Pinto, and Se-Hyoung Yi.

This 23-page issue guide offers a framework for deliberating over the priorities that should inform our nation’s role on the world’s stage. It presents three different options for moving forward—each based on a different way of looking at our greatest threats and each involving a different set of prescriptions for what should be done. Most important, each option has significant downsides and drawbacks.

At the December 5, 2018 meeting in Dayton, Ohio, the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) elected four new members and a vice president. The individuals will begin their terms at the May, 2019 NIFI meeting.

The following is excerpted from a report by Kimberly Pearce about her ground-breaking research into whether very young children (kindergarten through second grade) are cabable of learning about and using deliberative dialogue to communicate and problem solve.