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- A look at the real world psychology of how we think about risk that can help us better protect ourselves while also limiting our anxieties. #mbi_context -- Coronavirus ‘Hits All the Hot Buttons’ for How We Misjudge Risk -- Feb 14
- Must reading for anyone trying to understand the historical evolution of US family structures and an intriguing idea for making things better. #mbi_context -- The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake -- Feb 14
- As a starting point for thinking about the disinformation problem, concrete suggestions from Brookings. #mbi_context -- Regulating fact from fiction: Disinformation in political advertising -- Feb 07
- An in-depth and terrifying look at how increasingly sophisticated disinformation tactics threaten the upcoming election. We need a constructive response. #mbi_context -- The 2020 Election Will Be a War of Disinformation -- Feb 06
- A must read article for parents trying to think through the many tough choices that today's educational system demands. #mbi_context -- When the Culture War Comes for the Kids -- Feb 04
- For a country that cherishes freedom of speech, a story about a corresponding obligation – the obligation (and the privilege) of listening. #mbi_colleague -- The Right to Listen -- As citizens of a democracy, we need to hear one another. Why can’t we? -- Feb 03
- We need to quit dreaming of defeating and disempowering fellow citizens with whom we disagree. Instead, we need to figure out how to live together. #mbi_fundamentals -- Into-the-Sea Framing -- Feb 03
- The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock is an interesting strategy for drawing attention to low probability but catastrophic risks. #mbi_context -- The Doomsday Clock ticks closer to midnight -- Jan 31
- If we want to make bipartisan collaborative government work, we are going to have to take a hard look at what bipartisanship is and isn't. #mbi_context -- Five myths about bipartisanship -- Jan 30
- A must-read update, with lots of references, on the alarming state of the digital media arena in which upcoming US election will play out. #mbi_context -- Trump’s Digital Advantage Is Freaking Out Democratic Strategists -- Jan 29
- Glimmers of hope. There are members of Congress working quietly, "under the radar" to actually figure out how to fix things. #mbi_context -- A bipartisan committee has ideas to make Congress more bipartisan — and lawmakers are listening -- Jan 27
- An argument for preserving global peace with a system that does a few things well (rather than trying to do too much). #mbi_context -- The Future of the Liberal Order Is Conservative -- Jan 24
- A sensible way of thinking about national security in the age of increasing superpower tensions and a globalized integrated economy. #mbi_context -- Chained Globalization Means America and China Can't Decouple -- Jan 23
- Reflections on the worldwide wave of leaderless mass protests. Opposition is not enough, you need a broadly supported "what's next" plan. #mbi_context -- The Common Element Uniting Worldwide Protests -- Jan 22
- With respect to China, an argument for not repeating the United States' Soviet era mistake of over inflating our adversaries. #mbi_context -- The New China Scare -- Jan 21
- For those who don't have time to really talk with those on the other side, articles like this can help us understand one another. #mbi_colleague -- The Divide in Yakima Is the Divide in America -- Jan 21
- An organization that is trying, with some success, to do the impossible--facilitate constructive dialogue on Twitter. #mbi_colleague -- "Scaling The Commons An intervention to depolarize political conversations on Twitter and Facebook in the USA." -- Jan 20
- A report on a global effort to figure out how to restore the Web to its original promise. Their approach, a "Contract for the Web." #mbi_context -- I Invented the World Wide Web -- Here’s How We Can Fix It -- Jan 20
- We are not alone. There are lots of people and organizations that are trying very hard to help democracy overcome its many difficulties. #mbi_colleague -- Project Purple Coalition -- Jan 17
- Google Maps and Adopt-a-Highway programs, crazy, but I think illuminating, metaphors for better dealing with society-wide conflict. #mbi_frontiers -- The Google Traffic Metaphor -- Jan 17
- A review of the new book that helps explain the widespread resentment of meritocratic elites that is at the core of so much conflict. #mbi_context -- A Review of "The Meritocracy Trap" by Daniel Markov -- Jan 17
- A step in the right direction -- developing ways to improve Congress' problem-solving ability (and provide an alternative to partisan gridlock). #mbi_colleague -- Modernizing Congress: Bringing Democracy into the 21st Century -- Jan 16
- For those frustrated by the Presidential nominating process, ideas for making things better. #mbi_context -- The Presidential Nominating Process Is Absurd -- Jan 15
- For the debate and the campaign, a much better set of questions (if we want a President who can really solve problems (and heal the country). #mbi_context -- The Democratic Debates Are a Fantasy World -- Jan 15
- A story about an important new effort to get closer to the truth by encouraging people to admit and then work to correct their own misconceptions. #mbi_context -- Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong -- Jan 13
