IDEA Magazine is a community of thinkers, artists and leaders developing a new world vision through creative communication. Our non-partisan, heterogeneous content is rebuilding meaning in today's fragmented cultural landscape. We are not afraid of hope, and see ourselves as practical optimists using communication to shape the popular imagination. In a mass media atmosphere saturated with frivolity, cynicism and conceit, IDEA Magazine seeks sincere, original thinking that illuminates who we are and where we should go as a global community.

We believe such communication has the power to wake us up from the pessimism and self-absorption that dominate the present moment, inspire us to see the possibilities for change, and energize us to make that change real. The time for diagnosis is over; what we need now are answers and solutions.

We are committed to honest voices and stories rather than gimmicks, sales or punditry, and we are open to all content suggestions, formats and contributors regardless of background. For more information on contributing or our editorial values, read our submission guidelines.

Read the IDEA Manifesto.

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For more information, contact Catherine Black