Link Check II

ID# 4 -- 4 -- Meeting the Authoritarian Populism Challenge 4: The "Super Rich" and the "Meritocratic Elite" -- A look at things that those at the top of the hierarchy are doing to make things worse and strategies for persuading them to change.
ID# 5 -- 5 -- Meeting the Authoritarian Populism Challenge 3: Communication, Governance, and Economics -- Strategies for limiting the destructiveness of red/blue conflicts based on better communication, fact-finding, collaboration, governance, and economics.
ID# 5 -- 5 -- Meeting the Authoritarian Populism Challenge 3: Communication, Governance, and Economics -- Strategies for limiting the destructiveness of red/blue conflicts based on better communication, fact-finding, collaboration, governance, and economics.
ID# 6 -- 6 -- Meeting the Authoritarian Populism Challenge 2: "Hate Bait," Framing, and Escalation -- Learn about things small groups can do to push back against "hate bait," distraction-based propaganda, scapegoating, and other conflict problems.
ID# 7 -- 7 -- Meeting the Authoritarian Populism Challenge 1: Authoritarian and Partisan Conflict -- An appeal for us all to put our partisan differences in perspective and work together to strengthen democracy.
ID# 8 -- 8 -- Why Relationships Matter -- This video explores how social media is driving conflict & why real human relationships are so important.
ID# 9 -- 9 -- Limit "Us-vs-Them" Language, Thinking and Action -- This video explains why and how to think of and treat "the other" as a partner, not as an adversary.
ID# 10 -- 10 -- Conflict Frontiers Seminar 7 -- Using MPP to Understand the Authoritarian Populism Problem -- The failure of democracy to address the complaints of populists (both left & right) is increasing support for authoritarianism.
ID# 17 -- 17 -- Counter Hate and Malevolence - Part 2 -- The second of two videos, this focuses on how to respond constructively to people who (profess to) hate you.
ID# 18 -- 18 -- Counter Hate and Malevolence - Part 1 -- Hate is a cause and consequence of escalation that almost always makes conflicts worse. Don't help it along!
ID# 19 -- 19 -- The Divide and Conquer Authoritarian / Plutocratic Threat -- An explanation of the sophisticated divide-and-conquer strategies being used by aspiring plutocrats and authoritarians.
ID# 19 -- 19 -- The Divide and Conquer Authoritarian / Plutocratic Threat -- An explanation of the sophisticated divide-and-conquer strategies being used by aspiring plutocrats and authoritarians.
ID# 19 -- 19 -- The Divide and Conquer Authoritarian / Plutocratic Threat -- An explanation of the sophisticated divide-and-conquer strategies being used by aspiring plutocrats and authoritarians.
ID# 19 -- 19 -- The Divide and Conquer Authoritarian / Plutocratic Threat -- An explanation of the sophisticated divide-and-conquer strategies being used by aspiring plutocrats and authoritarians.
ID# 20 -- 20 -- Red, Blue, Gold Interactions, Destructive Polarization and the Peacebuilding Imperative -- An explanation of the critical distinction between left vs. right conflicts and authoritarians vs. everyone else conflicts.
ID# 20 -- 20 -- Red, Blue, Gold Interactions, Destructive Polarization and the Peacebuilding Imperative -- An explanation of the critical distinction between left vs. right conflicts and authoritarians vs. everyone else conflicts.
ID# 20 -- 20 -- Red, Blue, Gold Interactions, Destructive Polarization and the Peacebuilding Imperative -- An explanation of the critical distinction between left vs. right conflicts and authoritarians vs. everyone else conflicts.
ID# 21 -- 21 -- The Purple/Gold Distributional Divide -- An exploration of the conflict between the plutocrats, the meritocracy, the "left behind," and the "protected classes."
ID# 21 -- 21 -- The Purple/Gold Distributional Divide -- An exploration of the conflict between the plutocrats, the meritocracy, the "left behind," and the "protected classes."
ID# 21 -- 21 -- The Purple/Gold Distributional Divide -- An exploration of the conflict between the plutocrats, the meritocracy, the "left behind," and the "protected classes."
ID# 22 -- 22 -- The Red/Blue Cultural Divide -- After exploring the cultural divide, this post explains why coexistence is key to resisting authoritarianism.
ID# 22 -- 22 -- The Red/Blue Cultural Divide -- After exploring the cultural divide, this post explains why coexistence is key to resisting authoritarianism.
ID# 23 -- 23 -- Mapping the Continuum between Democracy and Authoritarianism -- This post explains the nature and importance of the continuum that stretches from ideal democracy to authoritarian dystopia.
ID# 23 -- 23 -- Mapping the Continuum between Democracy and Authoritarianism -- This post explains the nature and importance of the continuum that stretches from ideal democracy to authoritarian dystopia.
ID# 24 -- 24 -- Mapping the Authoritarian Populism "Conflict Complex," an Overview -- An overview of six upcoming Frontiers Seminar posts that apply conflict mapping techniques to the authoritarian populism problem.
ID# 24 -- 24 -- Mapping the Authoritarian Populism "Conflict Complex," an Overview -- An overview of six upcoming Frontiers Seminar posts that apply conflict mapping techniques to the authoritarian populism problem.
ID# 25 -- 25 -- Promoting De-Escalation -- Part 1: Conciliatory Gestures -- Conciliatory gestures are a way to break down stereotypes and start de-escalating conflicts with surprise overtures of kindness.
ID# 26 -- 26 -- Promote Escalation Awareness -- This video shows what escalation is, why it is so damaging, and how to protect yourself from its most destructive consequences.
ID# 27 -- 27 -- Identify--and Scale Up--Your Areas of Influence -- A first step toward effective action is figuring out what you can do that will have maximum possible impact.
ID# 28 -- 28 -- Using the MPP Action List: The Authoritarian Populism Example (Part II) -- An overview of six upcoming Frontiers Seminar posts that explore the authoritarian populism problem and ways to address it.
ID# 29 -- 29 -- Using the MPP Action List: The Authoritarian Populism Example (Part I) -- An explanation of what we mean by the "authoritarian populism challenge" and how the MPP action list can help address it.
ID# 30 -- 30 -- Identify the Overlay Issues in Dispute -- Factual and procedural disputes, framing, miscommunication, and escalation are “overlay problems” that make intractable conflicts even harder to resolve.
ID# 31 -- 31 -- MPP Authoritarian Populism Action List -- This version of the Action List highlights in actions that we think are especially important in the context of the "Using MPP Action List: The...
ID# 32 -- 32 -- 2nd, 3rd, 4th... Order Problems -- Second-order problems prevent one from addressing primary problems. So these have to be handled first if MPP is to be possible.
ID# 34 -- 34 -- Why MPP Isn't Such a Crazy Idea -- Other successful massive problem-solving efforts provide models for how MPP might actually work.
ID# 35 -- 35 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding (MPP) -- This video gives an introduction to what MPP is, and how it is different from other approaches to peacebuilding, and why we think it is important.
ID# 36 -- 36 -- The Peacebuilding / Constructive Confrontation Synthesis -- This post illustrates why applying conflict dynamics and conflict resolution skills to advocacy roles is so important.
ID# 37 -- 37 -- The Peace and Democracy-Building Continuum -- This video suggests we add the notion of “democracy” to our peacebuilding efforts, so we work for stable, democratic, peace.
ID# 38 -- 38 -- The Risk of Large-Scale Civil Unrest and Violence in the United States -- Comparing now to the 1960s, this video wonders whether our conflicts could get as bad—or worse—than those experienced then.
ID# 40 -- 40 -- Identify the Core Issues -- Conflicts have two kinds of issues: core and overlay. This video reviews elements typical of the core, using US immigration as an example.
ID# 40 -- 40 -- Identify the Core Issues -- Conflicts have two kinds of issues: core and overlay. This video reviews elements typical of the core, using US immigration as an example.
ID# 41 -- 41 -- Map the Basic Conflict Elements -- Here we introduce two different approaches to conflict mapping: text-based and graphical, and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
ID# 42 -- 42 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Action List -- Initial list of the "actions" people can take to address all ten MPP challenges.
ID# 43 -- 43 -- See the Complexity It's not Just "Us versus Them" -- It is impossible to effectively confront a conflict if you don't understand what is going on--in all its complexity.
ID# 43 -- 43 -- See the Complexity It's not Just "Us versus Them" -- It is impossible to effectively confront a conflict if you don't understand what is going on--in all its complexity.
ID# 43 -- 43 -- See the Complexity It's not Just "Us versus Them" -- It is impossible to effectively confront a conflict if you don't understand what is going on--in all its complexity.
ID# 44 -- 44 -- Welcome and Introduction to the Frontiers Seminar -- The underlying rationale behind the Conflict Frontiers Massive Open Online Seminar (MOOS) is explained.
ID# 47 -- 47 -- The Constructive Confrontation Project -- An examination of conflict knowledge and skills to help advocates get their interests and needs met without creating backlash from the other side.
ID# 48 -- 48 -- Conflict Frontiers Massive Open Online Seminar Series (MOOS) Combined Syllabi -- 0
ID# 49 -- 49 -- About The Conflict Frontiers Massive Open Online Seminar Series (MOOS) -- 0
ID# 50 -- 50 -- Summary of Mari Fitzduff's Introduction to Neuroscience for the Peacebuilder - Part 2 -- Part 2 of our review of Mari Fitzduff's monograph on neuroscience and its implications for peacebuilders.
ID# 50 -- 50 -- Summary of Mari Fitzduff's Introduction to Neuroscience for the Peacebuilder - Part 2 -- Part 2 of our review of Mari Fitzduff's monograph on neuroscience and its implications for peacebuilders.
ID# 51 -- 51 -- Summary of Mari Fitzduff's Introduction to Neuroscience for the Peacebuilder - Part 1 -- A deeper investigation of psychological complexity and its impacts on intractability drawn from Mari Fitzduff--part 1 of 2.
ID# 51 -- 51 -- Summary of Mari Fitzduff's Introduction to Neuroscience for the Peacebuilder - Part 1 -- A deeper investigation of psychological complexity and its impacts on intractability drawn from Mari Fitzduff--part 1 of 2.
ID# 51 -- 51 -- Summary of Mari Fitzduff's Introduction to Neuroscience for the Peacebuilder - Part 1 -- A deeper investigation of psychological complexity and its impacts on intractability drawn from Mari Fitzduff--part 1 of 2.
ID# 52 -- 52 -- The Complex Causes of Social Problems -- An introduction to the Burgess's notion of "massively parallel problem-solving," this video looks at inequality in this way.
ID# 52 -- 52 -- The Complex Causes of Social Problems -- An introduction to the Burgess's notion of "massively parallel problem-solving," this video looks at inequality in this way.
ID# 53 -- 53 -- The Decentralized, "Markets Plus" Metaphor -- Markets are another manifestation of complexity that can be applied to complex conflict response.
ID# 53 -- 53 -- The Decentralized, "Markets Plus" Metaphor -- Markets are another manifestation of complexity that can be applied to complex conflict response.
ID# 54 -- 54 -- The Google Traffic Metaphor -- Google Traffic models a complex system, and has useful elements to be copied in complex conflict responses as well.
ID# 54 -- 54 -- The Google Traffic Metaphor -- Google Traffic models a complex system, and has useful elements to be copied in complex conflict responses as well.
ID# 55 -- 55 -- The Scale-Up Problem -- The scale of intractable conflicts requires that we need to learn to do peacebuilding on a much larger scale than most conflict resolution strategies were designed for.
ID# 55 -- 55 -- The Scale-Up Problem -- The scale of intractable conflicts requires that we need to learn to do peacebuilding on a much larger scale than most conflict resolution strategies were designed for.
ID# 56 -- 56 -- Our Most Important Conflict: Coexisters vs. Fighters vs. Divide & Conquerors -- The Frontiers Seminar looks at process and goal frames--some people want to coexist, others fight to win, while others fight to conquer.
ID# 56 -- 56 -- Our Most Important Conflict: Coexisters vs. Fighters vs. Divide & Conquerors -- The Frontiers Seminar looks at process and goal frames--some people want to coexist, others fight to win, while others fight to conquer.
ID# 56 -- 56 -- Our Most Important Conflict: Coexisters vs. Fighters vs. Divide & Conquerors -- The Frontiers Seminar looks at process and goal frames--some people want to coexist, others fight to win, while others fight to conquer.
ID# 57 -- 57 -- The Evolutionary Choice: "Power With" or "Power Over" -- Another extension of Boulding's theory of power. And its relevance today.
ID# 58 -- 58 -- Social and Psychological Complexity -- An examination of how understanding of social and psychological complexity enables more effective advocacy as well as peacebuilding.
ID# 58 -- 58 -- Social and Psychological Complexity -- An examination of how understanding of social and psychological complexity enables more effective advocacy as well as peacebuilding.
ID# 59 -- 59 -- Meeting the Adaptation Challenge -- Continuing with the biological analogy, adaptation, too, is key to adapting to changing conditions without driving conflict escalation.
ID# 60 -- 60 -- Embracing Complexity: The Key to Dealing with Intractability -- This section outlines the Burgess's take on the intersection of complexity, systems thinking, conflict transformation, and peacebuilding.
ID# 60 -- 60 -- Embracing Complexity: The Key to Dealing with Intractability -- This section outlines the Burgess's take on the intersection of complexity, systems thinking, conflict transformation, and peacebuilding.
ID# 61 -- 61 -- Chip Hauss's Security 2.0 and "The New Paradigm" -- A summary of Hauss's new book Security 2.0: Dealing with Global Wicked Problems.
ID# 61 -- 61 -- Chip Hauss's Security 2.0 and "The New Paradigm" -- A summary of Hauss's new book Security 2.0: Dealing with Global Wicked Problems.
ID# 62 -- 62 -- Robert Ricigliano: Making Peace Last -- SAT= Structures, Attitudes, and Transactions; PAL = Planning, Acting, Learning. This is another new systems approach to peacebuilding.
ID# 62 -- 62 -- Robert Ricigliano: Making Peace Last -- SAT= Structures, Attitudes, and Transactions; PAL = Planning, Acting, Learning. This is another new systems approach to peacebuilding.
ID# 63 -- 63 -- Peter Coleman's Five Percent -- Part 2 -- Coleman advises 1) complicate to simplify, 2) build up and tear down and 3) change to stabilize intractable conflict systems.
ID# 63 -- 63 -- Peter Coleman's Five Percent -- Part 2 -- Coleman advises 1) complicate to simplify, 2) build up and tear down and 3) change to stabilize intractable conflict systems.
ID# 68 -- 68 -- Peter Coleman's "Five Percent" -- Part 1 -- One of the most important concepts in Coleman's book The Five Percent--one of the first books to look explicitly at complexity science and conflict.
ID# 68 -- 68 -- Peter Coleman's "Five Percent" -- Part 1 -- One of the most important concepts in Coleman's book The Five Percent--one of the first books to look explicitly at complexity science and conflict.
ID# 69 -- 69 -- William Ury's Third Side -- While Ury's Getting to Yes was very linear in its approach, his later book The Third Side illustrates a much more systemic/complex approach.
ID# 69 -- 69 -- William Ury's Third Side -- While Ury's Getting to Yes was very linear in its approach, his later book The Third Side illustrates a much more systemic/complex approach.
ID# 70 -- 70 -- Louise Diamond & John McDonald's Multi-Track Diplomacy -- These nine tracks together create a synergy that constitutes another early "systems approach to peace."
ID# 70 -- 70 -- Louise Diamond & John McDonald's Multi-Track Diplomacy -- These nine tracks together create a synergy that constitutes another early "systems approach to peace."
ID# 71 -- 71 -- John Paul Lederach's "Big Picture of Conflict Transformation" -- Another of Lederach's seminal systems ideas. This wasn't identified as systems thinking at the time, yet was a stellar example of such.
ID# 71 -- 71 -- John Paul Lederach's "Big Picture of Conflict Transformation" -- Another of Lederach's seminal systems ideas. This wasn't identified as systems thinking at the time, yet was a stellar example of such.
ID# 72 -- 72 -- John Paul Lederach's Peacebuilding Pyramid -- Although it wasn't thought of as "systems thinking" at the time, Lederach's pyramid was an early utilization of systems concepts.
ID# 72 -- 72 -- John Paul Lederach's Peacebuilding Pyramid -- Although it wasn't thought of as "systems thinking" at the time, Lederach's pyramid was an early utilization of systems concepts.
ID# 73 -- 73 -- Maire Dugan's "Nested Theory of Conflict" -- If you intervene at the wrong level, your effectiveness is greatly reduced--understanding conflict levels is essential for good outcomes.
ID# 73 -- 73 -- Maire Dugan's "Nested Theory of Conflict" -- If you intervene at the wrong level, your effectiveness is greatly reduced--understanding conflict levels is essential for good outcomes.
ID# 74 -- 74 -- Developing a Systems/Complexity Paradigm -- Introduction to key literature including Lederach, Dugan, Boulding, Coleman, Ricigliano, McDonald/Diamond and others.
ID# 74 -- 74 -- Developing a Systems/Complexity Paradigm -- Introduction to key literature including Lederach, Dugan, Boulding, Coleman, Ricigliano, McDonald/Diamond and others.
ID# 75 -- 75 -- Business As Usual -- It Doesn't Work! -- An introduction to the "Business-as-Usual Section of the Frontiers Seminar.
ID# 76 -- 76 -- What Makes Conflicts Intractable? -- An overview of the many "core" and "overlay factors" that tend to make conflicts intractable. The more there are, the more likely intractability will occur.
ID# 76 -- 76 -- What Makes Conflicts Intractable? -- An overview of the many "core" and "overlay factors" that tend to make conflicts intractable. The more there are, the more likely intractability will occur.
ID# 78 -- 78 -- Why Can't We Fix Anything Anymore? -- Intractable conflicts are making many critical problems all over the world impossible to deal with.
ID# 79 -- 79 -- Intractable Conflict: A "Climate Change-Class" Problem -- The peacebuilding field is roughly where the climate change field was in the 1970s. That movement's successes and challenges have a lot to teach peacebuilders.
ID# 80 -- 80 -- What Are Intractable Conflicts? -- The notion of "intractability" is widely misunderstood. We try to clear up the confusion in this Frontiers Video.
ID# 80 -- 80 -- What Are Intractable Conflicts? -- The notion of "intractability" is widely misunderstood. We try to clear up the confusion in this Frontiers Video.
ID# 81 -- 81 -- Limits to Growth, Tragedies of the Commons, & the Conflict Problem -- The "Commons" is a term generally used for environmental issues. It is much broader than that--as this video illustrates.
ID# 82 -- 82 -- Business As Usual-1: Same Old Approach, Just More or Better -- We tend to assume our methods are good--just not implemented well in a particular case. But that's often not true, this video explains.
ID# 83 -- 83 -- Business As Usual-2: Boys Will Be Boys -- Conflict is inevitable. But war and the destructiveness of conflict is not. We explore self-destructive attitudes here.
ID# 84 -- 84 -- Business As Usual Pt. 3: "The Blame Game" -- Focusing on "contribution" instead of blame usually gets much better results!
ID# 85 -- 85 -- The Return of "I'll Fight You for It" Rules -- Based off a Jules Feiffer cartoon, this video examines the growing use of force and coercion to oppress others.
ID# 86 -- 86 -- Recent Peace and Conflict Paradigms -- An examination of basic premises in the conflict resolution and peacebuilding fields and how they have changed over time.
ID# 87 -- 87 -- Business As Usual-4: Power and the Power Strategy Mix -- Power sources and power strategies are different--knowing what power sources you have and your optimal "power strategy mix" is key.
ID# 87 -- 87 -- Business As Usual-4: Power and the Power Strategy Mix -- Power sources and power strategies are different--knowing what power sources you have and your optimal "power strategy mix" is key.
ID# 88 -- 88 -- Business As Usual 5 - The Interplay of Reason and Emotion -- Rationality and emotions both contribute to conflict decision-making--it's unavoidable. This video examines the complex relationship between the two.
ID# 89 -- 89 -- Business As Usual-6: More Bad Assumptions -- Our bad assumptions hamper or even destroy our abilities to constructively handle conflicts.
ID# 90 -- 90 -- Complex vs. Complicated Systems -- An explanation of the key distinction between complex (organic) systems, and complicated (mechanical) systems. This distinction is critical.
ID# 90 -- 90 -- Complex vs. Complicated Systems -- An explanation of the key distinction between complex (organic) systems, and complicated (mechanical) systems. This distinction is critical.
ID# 91 -- 91 -- System Levels -- This is drawn from an article written by Kenneth Boulding in 1956. The ideas, largely forgotten, are of utmost importance to modern systemic peacebuilding.
ID# 91 -- 91 -- System Levels -- This is drawn from an article written by Kenneth Boulding in 1956. The ideas, largely forgotten, are of utmost importance to modern systemic peacebuilding.
ID# 91 -- 91 -- System Levels -- This is drawn from an article written by Kenneth Boulding in 1956. The ideas, largely forgotten, are of utmost importance to modern systemic peacebuilding.
ID# 92 -- 92 -- The Really Big Picture Ecodynamics & Planetary Evolution -- Building on Kenneth Boulding's ideas, Guy Burgess explains how biological concepts of ecodynamics and evolution apply to conflict systems too.
ID# 92 -- 92 -- The Really Big Picture Ecodynamics & Planetary Evolution -- Building on Kenneth Boulding's ideas, Guy Burgess explains how biological concepts of ecodynamics and evolution apply to conflict systems too.
ID# 93 -- 93 -- Engineering and Medical Troubleshooting Models -- The difference between complex and complicated systems requires different types of responses for each.
ID# 93 -- 93 -- Engineering and Medical Troubleshooting Models -- The difference between complex and complicated systems requires different types of responses for each.
ID# 94 -- 94 -- The Backlash Effect & Coefficient -- An essential calculation regarding when coercion might be tried--and when not.
ID# 98 -- 98 -- Try Collaboration First! -- A why and how discussion of collaboration, explaining that it often is possible when we think it is not.
ID# 121 -- 121 -- Sources -- 0
ID# 161 -- 161 -- Channels of Communication -- In escalated conflicts, parties often cease communicating altogether, or they ignore each other, assuming the other is biased or simply wrong. Opening channels of communication is an important first step in conflict management or resolution.
ID# 162 -- 162 -- Misunderstandings -- Normal conversations almost always involve miscommunication, but conflict seems to worsen the problem. Even if the misunderstandings do not cause conflict, they can escalate it rapidly once it starts.
ID# 162 -- 162 -- Misunderstandings -- Normal conversations almost always involve miscommunication, but conflict seems to worsen the problem. Even if the misunderstandings do not cause conflict, they can escalate it rapidly once it starts.
ID# 163 -- 163 -- Interpersonal Communication -- Robert Quillen wrote, "Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of emotion." These resources explain why interpersonal communication breaks down and how to make it more effective.
ID# 164 -- 164 -- Cognitive Dissonance -- People tend to ignore or "explain away" new information that conflicts with the way they currently think. Such "cognitive dissonance" can have both constructive and destructive effects on conflict.
ID# 165 -- 165 -- Victimhood -- Victimhood has a dual nature—people can be both ashamed and proud of their victim status at the same time.
ID# 166 -- 166 -- Delegitimization -- Delegitimization refers to the negative stereotypes used to describe an adversary. Delegitimization is one of the major forces that feeds violence and prevents a peaceful resolution.
ID# 167 -- 167 -- Siege Mentality -- Many societies believe that other societies have negative intentions towards them. But with the "siege mentality," the situation is far more extreme. They believe that the entire world is hostile toward them.
ID# 167 -- 167 -- Siege Mentality -- Many societies believe that other societies have negative intentions towards them. But with the "siege mentality," the situation is far more extreme. They believe that the entire world is hostile toward them.
ID# 168 -- 168 -- Ethos of Conflict -- A community's ethos is its shared beliefs, goals and identity. Communities in an intractable conflict expand that ethos to explain their approach to the conflict. A community's ethos strongly affects how destructive the conflict becomes.
ID# 168 -- 168 -- Ethos of Conflict -- A community's ethos is its shared beliefs, goals and identity. Communities in an intractable conflict expand that ethos to explain their approach to the conflict. A community's ethos strongly affects how destructive the conflict becomes.
ID# 169 -- 169 -- Psychological Dynamics of Intractable Conflicts -- In intractable conflicts, it is possible for entire societies to get tangled up in negative psychological dynamics. If these dynamics are not recognized and addressed it will become difficult or impossible to resolve the conflict.
ID# 170 -- 170 -- Limits of Rationality in Decision Making -- Negotiation theory often assumes that people in conflict behave rationally, making their decisions on the basis of a cost-benefit analysis. While rational assessment is sometimes one part of the disputants' decision making rubric, other factors usually play a significant role as well, often overriding what would be seen to be the "rational" response.
ID# 171 -- 171 -- Cultural and Worldview Frames -- People from different cultures often have such radically different worldviews that what seems like common sense to one side, is anything but sensible to the other.
ID# 172 -- 172 -- Enemy Images -- Enemy images deepen our socio-economic and political problems, while they make effective problem solving impossible.
ID# 172 -- 172 -- Enemy Images -- Enemy images deepen our socio-economic and political problems, while they make effective problem solving impossible.
ID# 173 -- 173 -- Stereotypes / Characterization Frames -- Stereotypes are simplified, and often highly inaccurate, images of the motivations and behaviors of others. When in error, they can lead to and escalate conflicts.
ID# 174 -- 174 -- Identity Frames -- Identity frames include ideas about who one is, what characteristics they share with their group(s) and how they do and should related to others. These frames are frequently sources of conflict.
ID# 174 -- 174 -- Identity Frames -- Identity frames include ideas about who one is, what characteristics they share with their group(s) and how they do and should related to others. These frames are frequently sources of conflict.
ID# 175 -- 175 -- Into-the-Sea Framing -- When a conflict becomes intractable, many people hope that their enemy will simply disappear. They pursue overwhelming victory without ever really considering the fact that they will still have to live with their enemies after the conflict.
ID# 175 -- 175 -- Into-the-Sea Framing -- When a conflict becomes intractable, many people hope that their enemy will simply disappear. They pursue overwhelming victory without ever really considering the fact that they will still have to live with their enemies after the conflict.
ID# 176 -- 176 -- Competitive and Cooperative Approaches to Conflict -- This set of materials explores these two different approaches to conflict and the results of pursuing one or the other.
ID# 176 -- 176 -- Competitive and Cooperative Approaches to Conflict -- This set of materials explores these two different approaches to conflict and the results of pursuing one or the other.
ID# 176 -- 176 -- Competitive and Cooperative Approaches to Conflict -- This set of materials explores these two different approaches to conflict and the results of pursuing one or the other.
ID# 177 -- 177 -- Process Frames -- To a hammer, all the world is a nail. People tend to apply their own skills to working out a conflict, i.e. someone in the military pursues military solutions, diplomats pursue diplomatic solutions, and mediators pursue mediation. While this is usually a sensible division of labor, it can also distort choices if people from one procedural frame dominate the process and other options are not considered.
ID# 178 -- 178 -- Humiliation -- While commonly used, humiliation is extremely destructive--to its victims, and also, often, to the person or group doing the humiliating as well.
ID# 178 -- 178 -- Humiliation -- While commonly used, humiliation is extremely destructive--to its victims, and also, often, to the person or group doing the humiliating as well.
ID# 179 -- 179 -- Oppression and Conflict: Introduction -- This intro to a 6-essay series focuses on the causes and impacts of oppression and how it can be overcome.
ID# 180 -- 180 -- Power -- If power were one-dimensional, we could agree who has more and who has less. However, we are often surprised when a seemingly less powerful party holds a more powerful party at bay. This essay discusses both potential and actual power, the forms power can take, and its role in causing and solving intractable conflicts.
ID# 181 -- 181 -- Rich / Poor Conflicts -- The gap between high and low income countries is widening, risking even more conflict caused by this disparity in the future.
ID# 182 -- 182 -- Social Status -- Social status is intrinsically linked with ideas of power, humiliation, dignity and hierarchy. In many societies, there is a perpetual struggle between those at the top and those at the bottom, with equality a very elusive goal.
ID# 183 -- 183 -- Identity Issues -- Identity has long been identified as a driver of intractability. This essay explains why, and what can be done to address these conflicts.
ID# 183 -- 183 -- Identity Issues -- Identity has long been identified as a driver of intractability. This essay explains why, and what can be done to address these conflicts.
ID# 183 -- 183 -- Identity Issues -- Identity has long been identified as a driver of intractability. This essay explains why, and what can be done to address these conflicts.
ID# 184 -- 184 -- Moral or Value Conflicts -- Intractable moral conflicts tend to arise when one group views the beliefs and actions of another group as being so fundamentally evil that they exceed the bounds of tolerance. The abortion debate in the United States is an example of a moral conflict.
ID# 185 -- 185 -- Frames, Framing and Reframing -- Frames are the way we see things and define what we see. Similar to the way a new frame can entirely change the way we view a photograph, reframing can change the way disputing parties understand and pursue their conflict.
ID# 186 -- 186 -- High-Stakes Distributional Issues -- These are distributional conflicts that really matter: over jobs, land, a parent's love. Since the stakes are high, the willingness to compromise or lose may be low, making resolution more difficult
ID# 187 -- 187 -- Dealing with Extremists -- In large-scale conflicts there are often individuals who take militant, non-compromising, and often violent approaches to the problem. They are committed to driving the escalation spiral until total victory is attained. Although they are often seen as heroes, extremists can prevent the de-escalation of a conflict.
ID# 188 -- 188 -- Within-Party Differences -- It is common to assume that the views of a few outspoken members of a group reflect the views of the entire group, i.e. all Christians think the same. However members of the same group often have drastically different opinions.
ID# 189 -- 189 -- Levels of Action (Lederach's Pyramid) -- This essay explains John Paul Lederach's "triangle" which describes three levels of society at which would-be conflict resolvers might work: the grassroots, the leaders, and the middle level. While peacework must be done at all three levels, the middle level is especially important, Lederach says, at it links the top with the bottom as well as linking across party lines.
ID# 190 -- 190 -- Leaders and Leadership -- James MacGregor Burns, observed, "Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth." These resources examine the dynamics between a group and their leader.
ID# 191 -- 191 -- Third Siders -- Third siders act in a community threatened with destructive conflict as an immune system acts in a body threatened by disease. Average citizens such as teachers, journalists, artists and police officers can play key roles in preventing, de-escalating and resolving conflict. Bill Ury has labeled these people "third siders."
ID# 192 -- 192 -- Parties to Intractable Conflict -- This essay gives a brief introduction into the roles people involved in an intractable conflict can play.
ID# 193 -- 193 -- Principles of Justice -- An examination of the many different meanings of justice: distributive, procedural, retributive, and restorative among others.
ID# 193 -- 193 -- Principles of Justice -- An examination of the many different meanings of justice: distributive, procedural, retributive, and restorative among others.
ID# 194 -- 194 -- Complex Adaptive Systems -- Societal-level conflicts are "complex adaptive systems" similar, in many ways, to ecosystems and the human body.
ID# 194 -- 194 -- Complex Adaptive Systems -- Societal-level conflicts are "complex adaptive systems" similar, in many ways, to ecosystems and the human body.
ID# 194 -- 194 -- Complex Adaptive Systems -- Successfully working with complex system requires us to challenge many of our assumptions and understand the limits of rational planning.
ID# 195 -- 195 -- Stable Peace -- This essay introduces the idea of a stable peace, or "a situation in which the probability of war is so small that it does not really enter into the calculations of any of the people involved.
ID# 196 -- 196 -- Reconciliation -- Original Essay from 2003 -- Reconciliation used to be a common conflict resolution goal. While it still may be for the peace-builders, it isn't sought by disputants nearly as much.
ID# 197 -- 197 -- Conflict Transformation -- Many people believe that conflict happens for a reason and that it brings much-needed change. Therefore, to eliminate conflict would also be to eliminate conflict's dynamic power. In transformation, a conflict is changed into something constructive, rather being eliminated altogether.
ID# 198 -- 198 -- Settlement, Resolution, Management, and Transformation: An Explanation of Terms -- This essay refers to four different goals for a conflict intervention. It defines the four terms and explains how their meanings have evolved over time.
ID# 199 -- 199 -- Interests, Positions, Needs, and Values -- Interests are people's desires--the things they want to achieve in a conflict or dispute. In their best-selling book, Getting to Yes, Roger Fisher and William Ury assert that almost all adversaries have negotiable interests, it is only when the conflict becomes about rights, values, or power that it become intractable.
ID# 200 -- 200 -- Conflicts and Disputes -- This article explains the difference and why it matters--you can't address conflicts the same way you resolve disputes.
ID# 201 -- 201 -- The Core Causes of Intractable Conflicts -- Intractable conflicts such as between Israel and Palestine are rarely just about surface issues such as land or religion. At the core of most intractable conflicts is a tangle of issues threatening the most vital interests of the parties. This essay describes some of the common causes underlying many intractable conflicts.
ID# 201 -- 201 -- The Core Causes of Intractable Conflicts -- Intractable conflicts such as between Israel and Palestine are rarely just about surface issues such as land or religion. At the core of most intractable conflicts is a tangle of issues threatening the most vital interests of the parties. This essay describes some of the common causes underlying many intractable conflicts.
ID# 202 -- 202 -- What Are Intractable Conflicts? -- Intractability refers to conflicts that seem to be stuck in an increasingly destructive spiral. These conflicts consume time, money and energy and at their worst, result in millions of deaths.
ID# 203 -- 203 -- Cultural Lag -- A look at Cultural Lag and the many conflicts that arise as different communities struggle to adapt their culture to changing social conditions.
ID# 204 -- 204 -- John Paul Lederach's "Meeting Place" -- Think you know what peace, truth, justice, mercy, and reconciliation mean? Which is more important? Can you have all? This exercise forces a deeper look.
ID# 205 -- 205 -- Conflict Styles -- A summary of the five most common conflict styles and a discussion of when to use each.
ID# 206 -- 206 -- Reconciliation - Update and Current Implications -- A combination of four updates to Chip Hauss's 2003 blog post by Hauss and Heidi Burgess--bringing us up to fall 2020.
ID# 207 -- 207 -- Complexity-Oriented, Massively Parallel Reconciliation -- This video applies the notions of complexity and "massively-parallel peacebuilding" to the concept of reconciliation.
ID# 207 -- 207 -- Complexity-Oriented, Massively Parallel Reconciliation -- This video applies the notions of complexity and "massively-parallel peacebuilding" to the concept of reconciliation.
ID# 208 -- 208 -- Reconciliation as a Noun and a Verb (Outcome and Process) -- This video explains how reconciliation is both an outcome and the processes used to reach that outcome.
ID# 209 -- 209 -- Ingredients of Reconciliation -- A discussion of what is needed to create reconciliation.
ID# 210 -- 210 -- Retrospective Reconciliation: Looking Back to Right Past Wrongs – Part II -- A continuation of our discussion about ways in which past wrongs can be made right and/or forgiven.
ID# 211 -- 211 -- Retrospective Reconciliation: Looking Back to Right Past Wrongs – Part I -- This video explores the processes of reconciliation that look backward towards wrongs done in the past, seeking truth and justice and sometimes mercy.
ID# 212 -- 212 -- Prospective Reconciliation: What Should We Work For—And How? -- It is important to understand what your mean by "reconciliation,” before you design processes or make structural changes to obtain it.
ID# 213 -- 213 -- Reconciliation Part 1 - What is Reconciliation? -- Reconciliation is seen as the ultimate goal of peacebuilding, in which parties re-establish relationships and attempt to move beyond the past.
ID# 214 -- 214 -- Reconciliation Part 2 - -- Pursuing truth, accountability, apology, and structural and policy changes all contribute to reconciliation.
ID# 215 -- 215 -- Seminar 17:Unrightable Wrongs and Reconciling the Past -- Unrightable wrongs have to be addressed in order to achieve reconciliation.
ID# 239 -- 239 -- Lorelei Kelly Talks with Heidi Burgess about the Modernization and Depolarization of Congress -- And the U.S. More Broadly -- Lorelei Kelly has been working to help Congress do its job better for over 20 years, most recently as part of the "Fix Congress Cohort." Learn what they are doing to fix democracy at the top and the local level.
ID# 239 -- 239 -- Lorelei Kelly Talks with Heidi Burgess about the Modernization and Depolarization of Congress -- And the U.S. More Broadly -- Lorelei Kelly has been working to help Congress do its job better for over 20 years, most recently as part of the "Fix Congress Cohort." Learn what they are doing to fix democracy at the top and the local level.
ID# 239 -- 239 -- Lorelei Kelly Talks with Heidi Burgess about the Modernization and Depolarization of Congress -- And the U.S. More Broadly -- Lorelei Kelly has been working to help Congress do its job better for over 20 years, most recently as part of the "Fix Congress Cohort." Learn what they are doing to fix democracy at the top and the local level.
ID# 239 -- 239 -- Lorelei Kelly Talks with Heidi Burgess about the Modernization and Depolarization of Congress -- And the U.S. More Broadly -- Lorelei Kelly has been working to help Congress do its job better for over 20 years, most recently as part of the "Fix Congress Cohort." Learn what they are doing to fix democracy at the top and the local level.
ID# 240 -- 240 -- Heidi Burgess and James Coan on the Problem of De-Polarization and Scale -- James Coan, Co-Founder of More Like US is trying to figure out how to work "at scale" to diminish "the perception gap" between what people think "the other" is like and what they are really like.
ID# 240 -- 240 -- Heidi Burgess and James Coan on the Problem of De-Polarization and Scale -- James Coan, Co-Founder of More Like US is trying to figure out how to work "at scale" to diminish "the perception gap" between what people think "the other" is like and what they are really like.
ID# 240 -- 240 -- Heidi Burgess and James Coan on the Problem of De-Polarization and Scale -- James Coan, Co-Founder of More Like US is trying to figure out how to work "at scale" to diminish "the perception gap" between what people think "the other" is like and what they are really like.
ID# 241 -- 241 -- Peaceful Compromise or Compromised Peace: How and Illiberal World Requires Us to Rethink Peacebuilding -- A discussion about the ways in which peacebuilding still makes sense, and how (and if) it can be done effectively in today's highly conflicted world.
ID# 242 -- 242 -- Talking Intractability, Polarization and Ways Out with Peter Coleman -- Peter Coleman talks about his years' long study of intractability, focusing on empirical research and physical science concepts such as attractors to find better ways of dealing with these very difficult conflicts.
ID# 242 -- 242 -- Talking Intractability, Polarization and Ways Out with Peter Coleman -- Peter Coleman talks about his years' long study of intractability, focusing on empirical research and physical science concepts such as attractors to find better ways of dealing with these very difficult conflicts.
ID# 242 -- 242 -- Talking Intractability, Polarization and Ways Out with Peter Coleman -- Peter Coleman talks about his years' long study of intractability, focusing on empirical research and physical science concepts such as attractors to find better ways of dealing with these very difficult conflicts.
ID# 243 -- 243 -- Heidi Burgess Talks with Bill Froehlich, Director of Ohio State's Divided Community Project -- Video and transcript from Heidi Burgess's talk with Bill Froehlich, Director of the Divided Community Project in which we talk about DCPs work on mending social and political divisions.
ID# 244 -- 244 -- Grande Lum talks about Race Relations and Democracy and How to Strengthen Both -- Grande Lum talks about the race, democracy, the Community Relations Service, the Rebuild Congress Initiative, and now his work at Stanford Law School as Director of the Gould Center for Conflict Resolution.
ID# 244 -- 244 -- Grande Lum talks about Race Relations and Democracy and How to Strengthen Both -- Grande Lum talks about the race, democracy, the Community Relations Service, the Rebuild Congress Initiative, and now his work at Stanford Law School as Director of the Gould Center for Conflict Resolution.
ID# 245 -- 245 -- 50 Possible Questions to Open Israeli-Palestinian Dialogues -- A list of questions that will help people who really want to connect with and to learn more about "the other side" in the Israel-Hamas conflict (or other conflicts) to do so.
ID# 247 -- 247 -- Daniel Stid Reflects on Ways to Strengthen and Improve U.S. Democracy -- Democracy expert Daniel Stid talks about the challenges of American democracy, particularly on the quality of leaders, what statesmanship means, and how we can get more statesmen to run for office.
ID# 248 -- 248 -- Katie Hyten on Scaling Up Dialogue to Help Communities Work Together Effectively -- Katie Hyten explains how EP partners with organizations to help them use dialogic communication to strengthen the relationships in organizations and communities, so they can to do their jobs better.
ID# 249 -- 249 -- Jay Rothman on Scaling Up Interventions to Work at the Community Level -- Working at scale involves the combination of top-down, bottom-up, and middle out approaches, while working with individuals (the self), the groups separately, and then the community (the groups together).
ID# 249 -- 249 -- Jay Rothman on Scaling Up Interventions to Work at the Community Level -- Working at scale involves the combination of top-down, bottom-up, and middle out approaches, while working with individuals (the self), the groups separately, and then the community (the groups together).
ID# 251 -- 251 -- Factual Disputes -- Many conflicts involve disagreements over facts. This essay discusses the nature of factual disputes and how to deal with them.
ID# 252 -- 252 -- Building Peace After Terrorism: From Reconciled Relationship to Structural Change -- Sumner argues that counterterrorism and peacebuilding are not "separate islands," but rather go "hand-in-hand" as both involve addressing the root causes of terrorism through a conflict transformation framework.
ID# 265 -- 265 -- Fact Frames -- Facts do not speak for themselves. The same information from different sources, or received by different people, can lead to very different conclusions. One's "fact frames" determine what is believed and how that determines one's choices about what to do.
ID# 267 -- 267 -- Restorative Justice -- Restorative justice is justice that is not designed to punish the wrong-doer, but rather to restore the victim and the relationship to the way they were before the offense. Thus, restorative justice requires an apology from the offender, restitution for the victim, and forgiveness of the offender by the victim.
ID# 270 -- 270 -- Culture-Based Negotiation Styles -- In Asian, Canadian, and U.S. cultures, touching outside of intimate situations is discouraged. But, Mediterranean, Arab, and Latin American cultures allow more touching. Cultural differences like this can cause problems in cross-cultural negotiations. Such differences are explored in this essay.
ID# 271 -- 271 -- Forms of Oppression -- Oppression can take many forms. Understanding which are being used is essential for remedying the situation.
ID# 271 -- 271 -- Forms of Oppression -- Oppression can take many forms. Understanding which are being used is essential for remedying the situation.
ID# 271 -- 271 -- Forms of Oppression -- Oppression can take many forms. Understanding which are being used is essential for remedying the situation.
ID# 271 -- 271 -- Forms of Oppression -- Oppression can take many forms. Understanding which are being used is essential for remedying the situation.
ID# 278 -- 278 -- Technical Facts -- Many scientific and technical conflicts involve technical facts that are difficult, if not impossible, for the public or even political decision makers to understand. This essay discusses this problem and give examples of how decision makers can find useful facts.
ID# 288 -- 288 -- Sanctions: Diplomatic Tool, or Warfare by Other Means? -- Sanctions are punishments that are used to try to influence other groups or nation-states' behaviors. Examples are embargoes and prohibitions from attending international events. This essay describes the pluses and minuses of using sanctions to influence another's behavior.
ID# 289 -- 289 -- Retributive Justice -- Retributive justice promises punishment or "retribution" for wrongdoing.
ID# 291 -- 291 -- Mediation -- Mediation is a conflict resolution process in which a third party assists the disputants to communicate better, analyze their conflicts and their options and to develop a mutually satisfactory solution.
ID# 291 -- 291 -- Mediation -- Mediation is a conflict resolution process in which a third party assists the disputants to communicate better, analyze their conflicts and their options and to develop a mutually satisfactory solution.
ID# 293 -- 293 -- Maintaining Oppression -- In this essay, the author considers factors that keep oppression in place including power, the social production of meaning, self-fulfilling prophecies and distorted relationships.
ID# 293 -- 293 -- Maintaining Oppression -- In this essay, the author considers factors that keep oppression in place including power, the social production of meaning, self-fulfilling prophecies and distorted relationships.
ID# 297 -- 297 -- Fear -- Fear is both a cause and a consequence of violent and some nonviolent conflicts. It certainly makes conflict resolution more difficult.
ID# 300 -- 300 -- Historical Facts -- The saying, "history is written by the victor," refers to the fact that historical facts are often biased or inaccurate. Yet long-running conflicts are often based on these controversial "facts." This essay explores the impact of history on current conflicts.
ID# 300 -- 300 -- Historical Facts -- The saying, "history is written by the victor," refers to the fact that historical facts are often biased or inaccurate. Yet long-running conflicts are often based on these controversial "facts." This essay explores the impact of history on current conflicts.
ID# 306 -- 306 -- Nature of Intractability -- It can be difficult to decide whether a conflict is, in fact, intractable. This essay explains why the term, "intractable," is so controversial.
ID# 307 -- 307 -- Dehumanization -- An essay describing the psychology and dangers of dehumanization, which is now widely afflicting the U.S as well as other places.
ID# 311 -- 311 -- Procedural Justice -- Procedural justice describes approaches that define justice not by a fair outcome but by a fair process.
ID# 313 -- 313 -- The Culture of Mediation: Settlement vs. Resolution -- This essay explores the difference between conflict resolution as a process that can pursue either social peace, or social justice. The author explores what these are, which takes precedence in what situation, and how mediators can behave so that the outcomes that they value (justice and/or peace) are actually attained.
ID# 315 -- 315 -- Overcoming Oppression: Awakening the Sense of Injustice -- Awareness of injustice is a precondition for overcoming it. This essay discusses why people often aren't aware of their own and others' oppression.
ID# 315 -- 315 -- Overcoming Oppression: Awakening the Sense of Injustice -- Awareness of injustice is a precondition for overcoming it. This essay discusses why people often aren't aware of their own and others' oppression.
ID# 315 -- 315 -- Overcoming Oppression: Awakening the Sense of Injustice -- Awareness of injustice is a precondition for overcoming it. This essay discusses why people often aren't aware of their own and others' oppression.
ID# 319 -- 319 -- Distrust -- Distrust can result in a self-fulfilling prophecy, where every move another person makes is interpreted as evidence to distrust him/her. When the other person reciprocates this sentiment, there is mutual distrust that further fuels the escalation of conflict.
ID# 328 -- 328 -- Anger -- Anger can be constructive, but is more often destructive. This essay examines the interplay between anger and conflict and discusses when and how anger should be managed.
ID# 332 -- 332 -- Distributive Justice -- When people believe that their situation is not equal to that of other people like them, they feel a sense of injustice. Distributive justice is the attempt to create a fair and equal division of society's wealth and status.
ID# 332 -- 332 -- Distributive Justice -- When people believe that their situation is not equal to that of other people like them, they feel a sense of injustice. Distributive justice is the attempt to create a fair and equal division of society's wealth and status.
ID# 332 -- 332 -- Distributive Justice -- When people believe that their situation is not equal to that of other people like them, they feel a sense of injustice. Distributive justice is the attempt to create a fair and equal division of society's wealth and status.
ID# 334 -- 334 -- Problem-Solving Mediation -- 0
ID# 334 -- 334 -- Problem-Solving Mediation -- 0
ID# 336 -- 336 -- Overcoming Oppression Through Persuasion -- This essay examines how low power groups can appeal to the oppressive group's moral values, self interests, and self realization to convince them to change their relationship with the other group(s).
ID# 336 -- 336 -- Overcoming Oppression Through Persuasion -- This essay examines how low power groups can appeal to the oppressive group's moral values, self interests, and self realization to convince them to change their relationship with the other group(s).
ID# 336 -- 336 -- Overcoming Oppression Through Persuasion -- This essay examines how low power groups can appeal to the oppressive group's moral values, self interests, and self realization to convince them to change their relationship with the other group(s).
ID# 349 -- 349 -- Characteristics Of Intractable Conflicts -- Intractable conflicts are ones that go on and on, are frequently very destructive, and seem to resist any attempts at resolution. Though international conflicts, such as Israel-Palestine quickly come to mind, domestic issues such as the abortion controversy, and even some marital relations are quite intractable as well.
ID# 351 -- 351 -- Negotiation -- Negotiation is bargaining -- it is the process of discussion and give-and-take between two or more disputants, who seek to find a solution to a common problem. This overview essay discusses basic strategies and tactics of negotiation.
ID# 355 -- 355 -- Transformative Mediation -- Theorists, Robert Bush and Joseph Folger proposed that mediation can effect deep changes in people and their relationships. What they call transformative mediation can change how people behave not only toward their adversary in a particular conflict, but also in their day-to-day lives thereafter.
ID# 356 -- 356 -- Mediation and Multiculturalism: Domestic and International Challenges -- In this essay, the author discusses his experiences with multicultural mediation and suggests ways that mediators can avoid misunderstandings.
ID# 357 -- 357 -- Overcoming Oppression With Power -- How to increase one's sources of power and improve one's power strategies to force the oppressor to negotiate change to the status quo.
ID# 357 -- 357 -- Overcoming Oppression With Power -- How to increase one's sources of power and improve one's power strategies to force the oppressor to negotiate change to the status quo.
ID# 357 -- 357 -- Overcoming Oppression With Power -- How to increase one's sources of power and improve one's power strategies to force the oppressor to negotiate change to the status quo.
ID# 370 -- 370 -- Development and Conflict Theory -- Societies are always changing. Some improve, while others fail. Development theory aims at explaining both processes. This essay explores how development theory can be used to deepen our understanding of intractable conflict.
ID# 383 -- 383 -- Destructive Escalation -- Escalation is an increase in the intensity of a conflict. The number of parties and issues tends to increase, tactics become heavier, malevolence increases, and overall destructiveness generally increases as well.
ID# 385 -- 385 -- Trust in Mediation -- Alan Gold harped on the importance of trust in mediation when he wrote, "The key word is 'trust.' Without it, you're dead. Without it, stay home!" This essay explains why trust is so important in mediation and introduces trust-building strategies.
ID# 385 -- 385 -- Trust in Mediation -- Alan Gold harped on the importance of trust in mediation when he wrote, "The key word is 'trust.' Without it, you're dead. Without it, stay home!" This essay explains why trust is so important in mediation and introduces trust-building strategies.
ID# 386 -- 386 -- Fact-Finding -- If conflict is fueled by suspicion, assumptions and misunderstandings, then one of the simplest ways to defuse it is to find out the facts of the situation. Every conflict resolution process needs a solid base of facts to stand on, however it is often difficult to obtain accurate facts.
ID# 395 -- 395 -- Persuasion -- Persuasion is the ability to change people's attitudes largely through the skillful use of language. Martin Luther King's letter from a Birmingham Jail is a classic example of persuasion.
ID# 396 -- 396 -- Rule of Law -- Particularly since the end of the Cold War, the rule of law has increasingly been recognized as an important aspect of international conflict resolution and post-conflict peace building. Similarly, the absence of the rule of law is often implicated as a source of violence, human rights violations, and intractability.
ID# 398 -- 398 -- Insider-Partial Mediation -- Insider-partial mediation is mediation that is done by a person involved in the conflict instead of a neutral outsider. Though uncommon in North America, some argue that insider-partial mediators are better in non-Western contexts.
ID# 400 -- 400 -- Violence -- Overview -- This article examines the nature of political violence and what can be done to stop it.
ID# 407 -- 407 -- Distinguishing Facts from Values -- Facts and values are fundamentally different, but often confused. This essay examines the confusion clarify the two terms.
ID# 416 -- 416 -- Power Inequities -- Plutarch wrote, "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." This essay deals with the power inequities that have existed in almost all human societies.
ID# 418 -- 418 -- Elections -- Elections are a cornerstone of democracy and, hence, figure prominently in democratization efforts around the world. This essay explores different electoral systems, elections in post-conflict situations, and the role of the international community in election monitoring.
ID# 419 -- 419 -- International Mediation and Intractable Conflict -- Parties in international conflicts usually think of violence or coercion as their best option. Even if they do try diplomacy, the parties are unlikely to attempt international mediation. This essay suggests that this option should be tried more often.
ID# 420 -- 420 -- Establishment of Personal Relationships -- While strong personal relationships alone cannot bring about conflict resolution, they can help to transform the conflict and make it easier to resolve. Relationships between the opposing sides help to build trust, improve communication, and increase tolerance.
ID# 426 -- 426 -- Polarization -- Polarization of a conflict occurs as a conflict rises in intensity (that is, escalates). Often as escalation occurs, more and more people get involved, and take strong positions either on one side or the other. "Polarization" refers to the process in which people move toward extreme positions ("poles"), leaving fewer and fewer people "in the middle."
ID# 429 -- 429 -- Uncertainty -- When a conflict involves complex elements and unknowns, it is often a significant reason why the conflict becomes intractable in the first place. This essay offers suggestions for dealing with diversity.
ID# 440 -- 440 -- Election Monitoring -- Elections are a key component of democratization. Timing and credibility are critical however. This essay examines both and explores the use of election monitors as an approach to ensuring the integrity of the elections.
ID# 454 -- 454 -- Negotiation Stage -- In the negotiation stage, parties search for mutually- beneficial ways of resolving their conflict. This stage must be timed and executed very carefully in order to avoid a return to the escalation stage.
ID# 458 -- 458 -- Negotiation Strategies -- Most literature on negotiation focuses on two strategies, cooperative bargaining versus competitive bargaining. This essay defines and compares these two bargaining styles.
ID# 468 -- 468 -- Limiting Escalation/De-escalation -- Escalation often happens very quickly and easily, while de-escalation is typically very slow and difficult. But it is essential, and possible.
ID# 471 -- 471 -- Obtaining Trustworthy Information -- When emotions are running high and everyone has an agenda, it can be very difficult to obtain credible information. This essay discusses the problem and how it can be addressed.
ID# 479 -- 479 -- Integrative or Interest-Based Bargaining -- In integrative bargaining, the parties attempt to "enlarge the pie" or allocate resources in a way that everyone gets what they want.
ID# 486 -- 486 -- Consensus Building -- Consensus building is used to settle conflicts that involve multiple parties and complicated issues. The approach seeks to transform adversarial confrontations into a cooperative search for information and solutions that meet all parties' interests and needs.
ID# 486 -- 486 -- Consensus Building -- Consensus building is used to settle conflicts that involve multiple parties and complicated issues. The approach seeks to transform adversarial confrontations into a cooperative search for information and solutions that meet all parties' interests and needs.
ID# 501 -- 501 -- Networking -- This essay describes how networking can be used to build relationships and empower individuals and groups to confront difficult conflicts more effectively.
ID# 506 -- 506 -- Unmet Human Needs -- Human essentials go beyond just food, water, and shelter. They include all those things humans are innately driven to attain, such as love, dignity and safety. Some theorists argue that most intractable conflicts are caused by the drive to satisfy unmet needs.
ID# 506 -- 506 -- Unmet Human Needs -- Human essentials go beyond just food, water, and shelter. They include all those things humans are innately driven to attain, such as love, dignity and safety. Some theorists argue that most intractable conflicts are caused by the drive to satisfy unmet needs.
ID# 520 -- 520 -- Legitimacy -- It is important to take legitimacy into consideration in the formation of any conflict resolution process. Otherwise, any agreement reached, no matter how visionary, is unlikely to hold. Leaders, too, must have legitimacy; otherwise their power is tenuous.
ID# 534 -- 534 -- Preventive Diplomacy and International Violence Prevention -- Violence prevention has evolved from being focused almost exclusively on short-term interventions. It now refers to long-term initiatives that target the root causes of conflict.
ID# 541 -- 541 -- Security -- Security, or sense of safety, is one of several "fundamental human needs" that must be met if conflict resolution is to be successful according to human-needs theorists.
ID# 541 -- 541 -- Security -- Security, or sense of safety, is one of several "fundamental human needs" that must be met if conflict resolution is to be successful according to human-needs theorists.
ID# 541 -- 541 -- Security -- Security, or sense of safety, is one of several "fundamental human needs" that must be met if conflict resolution is to be successful according to human-needs theorists.
ID# 543 -- 543 -- Creating and Claiming Value -- In any negotiation, the parties decide whether to be competitive or cooperative. However, some theorists argue that this is a false dichotomy--that all negotiations involve both.
ID# 551 -- 551 -- Early Warning -- Based on similar efforts to predict natural disasters and crop yields, many have attempted to construct models to predict where conflict will erupt. This essay explores the difficulties in creating such a system.
ID# 552 -- 552 -- Propaganda -- Propaganda involves the obscuring, manipulating, or misconstruing of information for political gain. It may involve efforts to garner support amongst followers or to dampen the spirits of one's opponents.
ID# 559 -- 559 -- Problem-Solving Workshops -- 0
ID# 564 -- 564 -- Single-Text Negotiation -- This form of negotiation occurs when a mediator or one party drafts an agreement (or other document), and then the other party or parties edits that agreement, one-by-one, until everyone can agree on the entire thing.
ID# 566 -- 566 -- Damaged or Destroyed Relationships -- People on opposite sides of a long-running conflict tend to distrust or even hate each other. This takes an emotional toll on both parties and prevents them from working together in the future.
ID# 569 -- 569 -- Relational-Cultural Theory: Fostering Healthy Coexistence Through a Relational Lens -- Relational-Cultural Theory brings relationships to the forefront of human psychology, focusing particularly on the concepts of connection and disconnection, and the causes of such. This essay applies this theoretical approach to the theory and practice of conflict transformation and peacebuilding.
ID# 581 -- 581 -- Prejudice -- Harry Bridges wrote, "No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refused to be involved in such suicidal practices." This essay discusses how prejudice develops, what its effects are, and what can be done to change it.
ID# 587 -- 587 -- The Nature and Origins of Oppression -- The beginning of oppression can be traced back to the invention of agriculture. This essay outlines the history of oppression.
ID# 587 -- 587 -- The Nature and Origins of Oppression -- The beginning of oppression can be traced back to the invention of agriculture. This essay outlines the history of oppression.
ID# 587 -- 587 -- The Nature and Origins of Oppression -- The beginning of oppression can be traced back to the invention of agriculture. This essay outlines the history of oppression.
ID# 589 -- 589 -- Communicating Facts -- Simply having access to trustworthy, credible information is not enough. It is also necessary to present the information in a way that decision makers and the general public can understand. This essay illustrates how to do that.
ID# 634 -- 634 -- Disabilities Mediation -- 0
ID# 652 -- 652 -- Interpersonal Conflict and Violence Prevention -- 0
ID# 661 -- 661 -- School-based Mediation -- 0
ID# 662 -- 662 -- Collaborative Problem Solving and Consensus Building -- 0
ID# 662 -- 662 -- Collaborative Problem Solving and Consensus Building -- 0
ID# 664 -- 664 -- Mediation -- 0
ID# 672 -- 672 -- Negotiation -- 0
ID# 689 -- 689 -- Seminar 4: Core Conflict Elements -- 0
ID# 694 -- 694 -- Seminar 9: The Abuse and Use of Real and "Fake" Facts. -- 0
ID# 698 -- 698 -- Seminar 13: Exchange Power and Negotiation -- 0
ID# 699 -- 699 -- Seminar 14: Collaboration and the Power of Working Together -- 0
ID# 750 -- 750 -- Constructive Conflict Initiative -- The Constructive Conflict Initiative is promoting a much broader effort to address the scale and complexity of the intractable conflict problem.
ID# 750 -- 750 -- Constructive Conflict Initiative -- The Constructive Conflict Initiative is promoting a much broader effort to address the scale and complexity of the intractable conflict problem.
ID# 765 -- 765 -- Intractable Conflict Challenge -- An overview of the three key ideas underlying Beyond Intractability--what intractability is, why it matters, and what's to be done about it.
ID# 766 -- 766 -- Destructive Conflict is the Most Serious Threat to Our Common Future -- An explanation of why intractable conflicts is so important--and why we must ALL address it now.
ID# 766 -- 766 -- Destructive Conflict is the Most Serious Threat to Our Common Future -- An explanation of why intractable conflicts is so important--and why we must ALL address it now.
ID# 767 -- 767 -- Conflict Problems Are Extraordinarily Multifaceted and Complex -- An examination of the implications of complexity on intractability, and how this affects our approaches to intractable conflicts.
ID# 767 -- 767 -- Conflict Problems Are Extraordinarily Multifaceted and Complex -- An examination of the implications of complexity on intractability, and how this affects our approaches to intractable conflicts.
ID# 768 -- 768 -- We All Have a Role to Play In Promoting More Constructive Conflict -- Complex intractable conflicts cannot be solved by a few leaders. This essay explains how we all have a role to play in the effort.
ID# 769 -- 769 -- Follow on Social Media or by E-mail -- 0
ID# 770 -- 770 -- Using Beyond Intractability As a Textbook -- 0
ID# 771 -- 771 -- Things YOU Can Do To Help Blog -- A new blog highlighting concrete and realistic steps we ALL can take to promote more constructive conflict processes and outcomes.
ID# 771 -- 771 -- Things YOU Can Do To Help Blog -- A new blog highlighting concrete and realistic steps we ALL can take to promote more constructive conflict processes and outcomes.
ID# 772 -- 772 -- Conflict Frontiers Seminar Series & Blog -- A free and open online seminar that takes a complexity-oriented approach to frontier-of-the-field issues related to intractable conflict.
ID# 772 -- 772 -- Conflict Frontiers Seminar Series & Blog -- A free and open online seminar that takes a complexity-oriented approach to frontier-of-the-field issues related to intractable conflict.
ID# 773 -- 773 -- Conflict Fundamentals Seminar/Blog -- Explanations of how the conflict & peacebuilding fields' fundamental building blocks can help with both intractable & tractable conflicts.
ID# 773 -- 773 -- Conflict Fundamentals Seminar/Blog -- Explanations of how the conflict & peacebuilding fields' fundamental building blocks can help with both intractable & tractable conflicts.
ID# 774 -- 774 -- Beyond Intractability / CRInfo Knowledge Base -- Resources covering the destructive conflict dynamics, strategies for limiting those dynamics, and wise and equitable dispute resolution.
ID# 775 -- 775 -- Beyond Intractability in Context Blog -- Links to quality news, opinion pieces, and reports that explain the intractable conflict problem and highlight successful responses.
ID# 775 -- 775 -- Beyond Intractability in Context Blog -- Links to quality news, opinion pieces, and reports that explain the intractable conflict problem and highlight successful responses.
ID# 776 -- 776 -- Colleague Activities Blog -- Links to information about the intractable conflict-related work that others in the peace and conflict field are doing. Tell us about your work.
ID# 776 -- 776 -- Colleague Activities Blog -- Links to information about the intractable conflict-related work that others in the peace and conflict field are doing. Tell us about your work.
ID# 778 -- 778 -- Constructive Conflict Massive Open Online Seminar (MOOS) -- A new Massive Open Online Seminar focused on the Constructive Conflict Initiative
ID# 780 -- 780 -- Teaching Materials -- A description of the wide range of articles, videos, exercises and other teaching materials available from Beyond Intractability.
ID# 859 -- 859 -- The Solutions Journalism Network -- For a world in which the media seems to talk about nothing but problems and hopelessness, journalists focusing on finding solutions!
ID# 865 -- 865 -- Bridge Alliance -- An organization of organizations that are actively working to bridge the partisan divide that is undermining democratic institutions.
ID# 865 -- 865 -- Bridge Alliance -- An organization of organizations that are actively working to bridge the partisan divide that is undermining democratic institutions.
ID# 869 -- 869 -- Why We Can’t “Just All Get Along”: Dysfunction in the Polity and Conflict Resolution and What We Might Do About It -- A quick summary of and a link to an excellent article on our dysfunctional politics.
ID# 882 -- 882 -- Search For Common Ground -- Mari -- Orgs dedicated to facilitating improved and effective communication between groups, nations, and other stakeholders involved in conflict prevention and peacebuilding
ID# 904 -- 904 -- The Center for Dispute Resolution Mediation Training Manual by Kenneth Cloke -- The complete "generic" mediation training manual used by Ken Cloke's Center for Dispute Resolution--donated by Ken for widespread use!
ID# 930 -- 930 -- The Autoworkers Strike Is Bigger Than G.M. -- A look at resurgent labor unions, one of history's most effective mechanisms for combating gross economic unfairness.
ID# 952 -- 952 -- “The Shifting Definition of Mixed-Race in America” -- A provocative essay to help you start thinking about the increasing complexity of racial identity in the United States.
ID# 958 -- 958 -- In the United States, Polarization Runs Particularly Deep -- In order to escape from today's deep political divide, we need articles like this one that help us understand the origins of our troubles.
ID# 993 -- 993 -- Republicans and Democrats Really Do Misunderstand Each Other -- 0
ID# 997 -- 997 -- Are You a Moral Grandstander? -- 0
ID# 1003 -- 1003 -- Nationalism Is a Form of Love, Not Hate -- 0
ID# 1011 -- 1011 -- Modernizing Congress is a national security imperative -- A hopeful story describing how we could take advantage of what, I hope, is an upcoming opportunity---to reform Congress so it really works.
ID# 1040 -- 1040 -- Corruption Is Contagious -- 0
ID# 1061 -- 1061 -- The Afghanistan Papers: at War with the Truth -- Like the Pentagon Papers, the Afghanistan Papers reveal another deep betrayal of the public's trust. This time, let's really learn from our mistakes.
ID# 1077 -- 1077 -- Impeachment Trial Looming, Chief Justice Reflects on Judicial Independence -- 0
ID# 1104 -- 1104 -- Regulating fact from fiction: Disinformation in political advertising -- As a starting point for thinking about the disinformation problem, concrete suggestions from Brookings.
ID# 1147 -- 1147 -- How to Fix the Internet With a Single Regulation -- Algorithms have led to filter bubbles and fueled polarization. It’s time to bring back the tech for a shared reality. -- 0
ID# 1156 -- 1156 -- Higher contagion and weaker ties mean anger spreads faster than joy in social media -- 0
ID# 1174 -- 1174 -- Don’t Fact-Check Scientific Judgment Calls -- 0
ID# 1192 -- 1192 -- 'The playbook is the American alt-right': Bolsonaristas follow familiar extremist tactics -- 0
ID# 1195 -- 1195 -- The 2020 Election Will Be a War of Disinformation -- An in-depth and terrifying look at how increasingly sophisticated disinformation tactics threaten the upcoming election. We need a constructive response.
ID# 1211 -- 1211 -- Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking -- Further evidence that Google is accommodating itself to a world in which there are no agreed-upon facts.
ID# 1215 -- 1215 -- Mike Bloomberg Is Hacking Your Attention -- Bloomberg raises big ethical questions for those who oppose Trump's information warfare tactics: To what degree should we fight "fire with fire?"
ID# 1216 -- 1216 -- Playing on Kansas City Radio: Russian Propaganda -- 0
ID# 1219 -- 1219 -- The Audacity of Hate -- An especially clear and well-documented explanation of the obstacles that will have to be overcome
ID# 1242 -- 1242 -- Kleptocracy Initiative - Hudson Institute -- The Kleptocracy Initiative is an effort to focus thinking on the extreme cases of corruption that are undermining so many societies.
ID# 1251 -- 1251 -- The New Authoritarianism -- 0
ID# 1259 -- 1259 -- Bloomberg's online tactics test the boundary of disinformation -- 0
ID# 1265 -- 1265 -- Protests and Police Reform: Q&A with RAND Experts -- 0
ID# 1306 -- 1306 -- Welcome to Marriage During the Coronavirus -- Thoughtful In critically important reflections on how to prevent Coronavirus stresses from threatening our most important relationships.
ID# 1356 -- 1356 -- Self-Isolation Slows Coronavirus But Speeds Up Extremism and Hate Speech -- Another downside of all of this isolation – it leaves us increasingly vulnerable to the many downsides of our social media based information system.
ID# 1389 -- 1389 -- Authoritarian Populists Have Six Classic Moves. Trump’s Response to COVID-19 Uses Five of Them. -- 0
ID# 1401 -- 1401 -- The Trailer: The pandemic and the protesters -- We need a whole new generation of protest strategies capable of defending disempowered groups while we all struggle with the Coronavirus.
ID# 1430 -- 1430 -- Contact Tracing Could Free America From Quarantine -- 0
ID# 1437 -- 1437 -- Managing Coronavirus Fears -- 0
ID# 1457 -- 1457 -- The Global Coronavirus Crisis Is Poised to Get Much, Much Worse -- We got ourselves into such terrible trouble by ignoring danger signs. We shouldn't repeat the mistake as the crisis unfolds.
ID# 1458 -- 1458 -- Being an Actual Authoritarian Is Too Much Work for Trump -- 0
ID# 1472 -- 1472 -- Politics, Dialogue, and the Evolution of Democracy -- Introduction -- An introduction to Ken Cloke's path-breaking book on politics, dialogue and democracy.
ID# 1474 -- 1474 -- Truth and Falsity -- Cloke shows how to surpass 'tis-'taint arguments about facts to get down to effective, collaborative problem solving.
ID# 1475 -- 1475 -- Meditative, Interest-Based Approaches to Political Conflicts -- Focusing on relationships and process as much as or more than content can help make political discussions more effective.
ID# 1475 -- 1475 -- Meditative, Interest-Based Approaches to Political Conflicts -- Focusing on relationships and process as much as or more than content can help make political discussions more effective.
ID# 1514 -- 1514 -- Trump Reaches Back Into His Old Bag of Populist Tricks -- Sadly, efforts to meet the challenges posed by the COVID-19 are going to have to overcome deliberate efforts to undermine collaboration.
ID# 1519 -- 1519 -- America Isn't Ready for the Biowarfare Future -- While the US has been fixated on its internal crises, military technologies and the fundamental balance of power has been changing dramatically.
ID# 1542 -- 1542 -- Trump Hasn’t Given Up on Divide and Conquer -- It worked for him before, but will the rising racial liberalism of white Democrats counter the rising racial conservatism of white Republicans? Is that even the right way to frame the question?
ID# 1542 -- 1542 -- Trump Hasn’t Given Up on Divide and Conquer -- It worked for him before, but will the rising racial liberalism of white Democrats counter the rising racial conservatism of white Republicans? Is that even the right way to frame the question?
ID# 1594 -- 1594 -- Fragile States Index 2020 -- The latest Fragile States Index offers an impressive look at global governance trends. (The US made the "most worsened over the long-term" list.")
ID# 1604 -- 1604 -- Fear, Denial, and Connectedness -- An essay showing how connectedness can counter fear and how we can embrace the new opportunities Covid 19 is giving us.
ID# 1620 -- 1620 -- Beyond Conflict -- A Boston-based NGO helping civic, non-profit, and community leaders address conflict in the U.S. and 75 other countries.
ID# 1623 -- 1623 -- Glenda Eoyang: Crush the Arrogance of Certainty -- COVID-19 and our response to it is a complex adaptive system. To respond effectively, we need to adapt to uncertainty.
ID# 1623 -- 1623 -- Glenda Eoyang: Crush the Arrogance of Certainty -- COVID-19 and our response to it is a complex adaptive system. To respond effectively, we need to adapt to uncertainty.
ID# 1624 -- 1624 -- Matt Legge: COVID-19 and Responses to Uncertainty -- An article explaining how uncertainty molds our response to the pandemic and other social challenges--and what should be done about it.
ID# 1624 -- 1624 -- Matt Legge: COVID-19 and Responses to Uncertainty -- An article explaining how uncertainty molds our response to the pandemic and other social challenges--and what should be done about it.
ID# 1625 -- 1625 -- Dr. Ivana Milojević: Minimizing Conflicts Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Information, resources, relationships, structures, and values cause conflict admist COVID-19. But these conflicts are also opportunities.
ID# 1639 -- 1639 -- Chip Hauss: Going to Scale -- How peacebuilders can work with others to "scale up" their efforts to grapple with the many wicked problems facing humanity currently.
ID# 1640 -- 1640 -- Is That Really True? How Disinformation Dangerously Impacts our Thinking -- This free PDF book highlights ways we can reshape our filters and ways of thinking, so we remove ourselves from the stream of disinformation.
ID# 1646 -- 1646 -- The Franco-German Relationship: From Animosity to Affinity -- An examination of how France and Germany transformed their relationship from long-term enemies to strong allies.
ID# 1649 -- 1649 -- Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess: COVID-19 and Civil Unrest -- An introduction to a set of posts on the intersection of intractable conflict, the pandemic, and civil unrest.
ID# 1650 -- 1650 -- Can peacebuilders, development, and humanitarian workers collaborate for better outcomes? This article explores the obstacles and opportunities. -- Can peacebuilders, development, and humanitarian workers collaborate for better outcomes? This article explores the obstacles and opportunities.
ID# 1674 -- 1674 -- Surrendering to Uncertainty -- 0
ID# 1681 -- 1681 -- Russia is interfering in our elections again. And Trump supporters are emulating Russian tactics. -- 0
ID# 1682 -- 1682 -- Moral Absolutism Broke America -- 0
ID# 1698 -- 1698 -- Police Face Backlash Over Virus Rules. Enter ‘Violence Interrupters.’ -- Amid police/community tensions, an example of how we might promote compliance with stronger measures to control the resurgent COVID threat.
ID# 1703 -- 1703 -- Shannon Kupersmith: We are at a complicated intersection with lots of roads. What if we use this opportunity to move forward in a better direction? -- A reflection on what we might like the U.S. to look like 30 years hence, and how we might use the current disarray to actually get there (or get closer) to there.
ID# 1705 -- 1705 -- Bruce Dayton: We're at a Crossroads between Tribalism and a New Supra-Ordinate Identity -- A reflection on the choices facing us, plus the intersection of the fields of constructive conflict and crisis management.
ID# 1706 -- 1706 -- Cynthia Cohen: Artists Can Help Us Frame Our Coronavirus Narrative -- Cynthia Cohen reflects on why art can help people make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic.
ID# 1707 -- 1707 -- Chip Hauss: Shifting from "Me First" to "We First" and Other "Takes" on the Coronavirus -- Three blogs on how peacebuilders might approach their work in the era of COVID-19.
ID# 1730 -- 1730 -- Living with Uncertainty in the COVID-19 Era -- A succinct explanation of things we should all be thinking about as we struggle to deal with the uncertainties of the COVID-19 era.
ID# 1730 -- 1730 -- Living with Uncertainty in the COVID-19 Era -- A succinct explanation of things we should all be thinking about as we struggle to deal with the uncertainties of the COVID-19 era.
ID# 1752 -- 1752 -- The Mass Media's Role in Conflict -- The mass media is, many ways, the arena in which society-wide conflicts are fought. Overcoming media problems is, therefore, critical to promoting more constructive conflict.
ID# 1752 -- 1752 -- The Mass Media's Role in Conflict -- The mass media is, many ways, the arena in which society-wide conflicts are fought. Overcoming media problems is, therefore, critical to promoting more constructive conflict.
ID# 1763 -- 1763 -- Identify--and Scale Up--Your Areas of Influence -- An update to the video of the same name, this post explores how we can best influence responses to racism in the summer of 2020.
ID# 1763 -- 1763 -- Identify--and Scale Up--Your Areas of Influence -- An update to the video of the same name, this post explores how we can best influence responses to racism in the summer of 2020.
ID# 1764 -- 1764 -- Theories of Change -- A simple introduction to a complex concept, this explains what theories of change are, and why they are needed to confront both COVID-19 and racism.
ID# 1768 -- 1768 -- Leaning in to Conflict and Leaning into Uncertainty -- A website documenting and expanding upon three online conversations on conflict, complexity, and uncertainty.
ID# 1773 -- 1773 -- Sanda Kaufman: Back to Basics: Making Sense of Current Events - Can Framing Help? -- Better framing can contribute to depolarization, mutual understanding, and productive dialogue. Why don't we work on that?
ID# 1774 -- 1774 -- Morton Deutsch on Understanding and Overcoming Oppression -- Current events and concerns suggest the utility of Morton Deutsch's six essays on oppression. He has much to teach us!
ID# 1774 -- 1774 -- Morton Deutsch on Understanding and Overcoming Oppression -- Current events and concerns suggest the utility of Morton Deutsch's six essays on oppression. He has much to teach us!
ID# 1774 -- 1774 -- Morton Deutsch on Understanding and Overcoming Oppression -- Current events and concerns suggest the utility of Morton Deutsch's six essays on oppression. He has much to teach us!
ID# 1780 -- 1780 -- Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project -- Extensive interviews with top civil rights mediators show how even the most difficult conflicts can be successfully transformed or resolved.
ID# 1794 -- 1794 -- George Lakey on Using Nonviolence to Prevent a Coup -- Multiple articles about preventing President Trump from mounting an authoritarian take over of America democracy.
ID# 1806 -- 1806 -- Chicago Gun Violence Spikes and Increasingly Finds the Youngest Victims -- 0
ID# 1858 -- 1858 -- The anger behind the George Floyd protests, explained in 4 charts -- 0
ID# 1870 -- 1870 -- History Will Judge the Complicit -- Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
ID# 1871 -- 1871 -- Trump Tries to Scare People Far From the Protests -- An Important and insightful look at the dangers of George Floyd-related fear mongering and an appeal to look at the full complexity of the situation.
ID# 1872 -- 1872 -- Why police can violate your constitutional rights and suffer no consequences in court -- 0
ID# 1881 -- 1881 -- Washington Wrote a Playbook For Preventing Police Violence. What Happened to it? -- 0
ID# 1883 -- 1883 -- De-escalation Keeps Protesters And Police Safer. Departments Respond With Force Anyway. -- 0
ID# 1888 -- 1888 -- The Guardrails Are Off the U.S. Military -- 0
ID# 1889 -- 1889 -- De-Wedging Police Violence in the United States -- 0
ID# 1889 -- 1889 -- De-Wedging Police Violence in the United States -- 0
ID# 1891 -- 1891 -- George Floyd, Police Brutality, and Crossing The Wedge (Part 1) -- 0
ID# 1896 -- 1896 -- If violence spreads like a disease, it can be interrupted. How a new team in Milwaukee is trying to stop one shooting leading to another. -- 0
ID# 1896 -- 1896 -- If violence spreads like a disease, it can be interrupted. How a new team in Milwaukee is trying to stop one shooting leading to another. -- 0
ID# 1897 -- 1897 -- Meet the Young Activists Fighting Chicago’s Gun Violence, With Lobbying and Group Hugs -- 0
ID# 1930 -- 1930 -- Don’t “Defund the Police.” Reimagine the police. -- 0
ID# 1932 -- 1932 -- When It Works to ‘Defund the Police’ -- 0
ID# 1946 -- 1946 -- The Sustainable Peace Project of AC4: The Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity at Columbia University -- Introducing the many resources on complexity, conflict, and peace from the Sustainable Peace Project of AC4, Columbia University
ID# 1954 -- 1954 -- ComplexCity: a Manual for Collaborative Complexity Engineering -- A proposal to coordinate the effort of grassroots citizens to address complex problems using an online complex system.
ID# 1962 -- 1962 -- Congress just doesn't know enough to do its job well. Here's why -- Congress has no access to information and no time to learn it--no wonder policy is bad!
ID# 1979 -- 1979 -- Big Tent Nation -- Big Tent Nation's purpose is to help people across political divides collaborate to solve joint problems.
ID# 1980 -- 1980 -- A Child's Guide to War and Veteran Children -- These documentaries seek to bridge the military-civilian divide to address ways military families experience war.
ID# 1997 -- 1997 -- Trump Has Made Alternative Facts a Way of Life -- 0
ID# 1998 -- 1998 -- ‘Defund the Police’ Does Not Mean Defund the Police. Unless It Does. -- 0
ID# 2013 -- 2013 -- How Police Brutality Gets Made -- An first rate analysis of the causes of police brutality with lots of valuable insights for those trying to help effectively address the problem.
ID# 2027 -- 2027 -- Stop Hate for Profit -- A hopeful effort to get Facebook to take serious and effective steps to address the role that it has played in tearing our society apart.
ID# 2044 -- 2044 -- ‘It’s Got to Stop’: Atlanta’s Mayor Decries a Surge of Violence as a Girl Is Killed -- 0
ID# 2075 -- 2075 -- A Serbian journalist has a warning about American authoritarianism -- 0
ID# 2096 -- 2096 -- Violence rises in Minneapolis, as debate over role of police rages -- 0
ID# 2109 -- 2109 -- Trump Is Feeding America’s Coronavirus Nightmare -- A chilling look at the horrendous consequences of our fake fact, hatemongering-based politics. We must find a way to end this before January.
ID# 2115 -- 2115 -- Flagged Disinformation News, Distilled -- 0
ID# 2129 -- 2129 -- Qualified Immunity Protection for Police Emerges as Flash Point Amid Protests -- 0
ID# 2135 -- 2135 -- How Do the Police Actually Spend Their Time? -- 0
ID# 2183 -- 2183 -- Carrie Menkel-Meadow: Words Matter! -- A wide-ranging essay showing how words can divide us--or bring us together. Better words can lead to better understanding and better actions.
ID# 2184 -- 2184 -- Dehumanization in Politics -- U.S. peacebuilders used to focus on dehumanization as a problem seen elsewhere. Now we are seeing it at home as well.
ID# 2185 -- 2185 -- The "Two Taproot (or Fuses) Theory" of Social Unrest -- Civil rights mediators from the Community Relations Service discuss why racial violence happens--and what needs to be done to prevent it.
ID# 2185 -- 2185 -- The "Two Taproot (or Fuses) Theory" of Social Unrest -- Civil rights mediators from the Community Relations Service discuss why racial violence happens--and what needs to be done to prevent it.
ID# 2186 -- 2186 -- Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess: Framing the Events of Spring and Summer 2020 -- A further exploration of the effects of framing on the COVID-19 pandemic and protests about racism.
ID# 2188 -- 2188 -- (When) Should We Escalate? -- Is continued escalation of the conflicts over police brutality and systemic racism beneficial—or not?
ID# 2189 -- 2189 -- What does "Justice" Mean? -- A discussion of the four different types of justice that should be considered in the discussions of "racial justice" this summer.
ID# 2190 -- 2190 -- Power Strategy Mix -- Power takes three different forms: coercion, exchange, and integration.
ID# 2191 -- 2191 -- What Happens When We Have an Election That Both Sides Absolutely Positively Can't Afford to Lose? -- For democracy to work, contending parties must have confidence that, even in defeat, they will have a livable future. The US doesn't now have that.
ID# 2192 -- 2192 -- The Base-Mobilization Trap -- With over 40% of eligible citizens not bothering to vote, it's easier to win elections by firing up the base than winning over persuadable voters.
ID# 2192 -- 2192 -- The Base-Mobilization Trap -- With over 40% of eligible citizens not bothering to vote, it's easier to win elections by firing up the base than winning over persuadable voters.
ID# 2193 -- 2193 -- U.S. Hyper Polarization—Over the Edge? -- The escalation driving the US' hyperpolarized conflict is precariously close to crossing the violence threshold. The time to stop this is now.
ID# 2193 -- 2193 -- U.S. Hyper Polarization—Over the Edge? -- The escalation driving the US' hyperpolarized conflict is precariously close to crossing the violence threshold. The time to stop this is now.
ID# 2193 -- 2193 -- U.S. Hyper Polarization—Over the Edge? -- The escalation driving the US' hyperpolarized conflict is precariously close to crossing the violence threshold. The time to stop this is now.
ID# 2194 -- 2194 -- Exponential Growth in Pandemics, the Economy, and Escalation -- The most sudden and dramatic social changes result from positive feedback loops that continually accelerate the rate of change.
ID# 2194 -- 2194 -- Exponential Growth in Pandemics, the Economy, and Escalation -- The most sudden and dramatic social changes result from positive feedback loops that continually accelerate the rate of change.
ID# 2195 -- 2195 -- Where Does The Nightmare of Continuing Hyper-Polarization End? -- As we all focus our attention on helping assure that our side wins the upcoming election, we should also be asking how we can repair the social fabric.
ID# 2195 -- 2195 -- Where Does The Nightmare of Continuing Hyper-Polarization End? -- As we all focus our attention on helping assure that our side wins the upcoming election, we should also be asking how we can repair the social fabric.
ID# 2196 -- 2196 -- Hyper-Polarization, the Pandemic, and the Need for a "Lifeboat Ethic" -- The many existential threats we face are requiring us to put aside our differences and learn how to work together.
ID# 2198 -- 2198 -- Fighting Today's Oppression, Not Yesterday's Oppression -- It is important that efforts to correct the record of past injustices not distract from or interfere with efforts to address ongoing injustice.
ID# 2198 -- 2198 -- Fighting Today's Oppression, Not Yesterday's Oppression -- It is important that efforts to correct the record of past injustices not distract from or interfere with efforts to address ongoing injustice.
ID# 2199 -- 2199 -- The Blood-Boiling Trap -- A look at how cognitive biases lead us to focus too much on things that are going wrong and not enough on things that are going (or could go) right.
ID# 2200 -- 2200 -- The Crane Brinton Effect -- The Crane Brinton effect explains why revolutionary uprisings against tyrants tend to produce just another tyrant (rather than a more just society).
ID# 2200 -- 2200 -- The Crane Brinton Effect -- The Crane Brinton effect explains why revolutionary uprisings against tyrants tend to produce just another tyrant (rather than a more just society).
ID# 2200 -- 2200 -- The Crane Brinton Effect -- The Crane Brinton effect explains why revolutionary uprisings against tyrants tend to produce just another tyrant (rather than a more just society).
ID# 2200 -- 2200 -- The Crane Brinton Effect -- The key to successful revolutionary (or evolutionary) change is a broadly agreed-upon vision for a better society in which most everyone would like to live.
ID# 2202 -- 2202 -- Constructive Demonstration Strategies -- A Boulder County (Colorado) County Commissioner reflects on what helps demonstrators be successful and what harms their effectiveness.
ID# 2203 -- 2203 -- Confronting NIMBYs by Polling Community Interests -- A reflection of a Boulder City Councilman about broadening citizens' notions of "their backyards."
ID# 2204 -- 2204 -- Constructive Confrontation -- An introduction to the newly-updated Constructive Confrontation Project
ID# 2205 -- 2205 -- Suzanne Ghais: Bridging the Police Community Divide -- Long-time conflict resolution practioner and scholar Suzanne Ghais reflects on the dangerous escalation between police and their communities.
ID# 2205 -- 2205 -- Suzanne Ghais: Bridging the Police Community Divide -- Long-time conflict resolution practioner and scholar Suzanne Ghais reflects on the dangerous escalation between police and their communities.
ID# 2206 -- 2206 -- Jay Rothman: Systematic Collaborative Visioning for Conflict Resolution Action and Evaluation in the Post-Covid19 World -- A summary of the conclusions of an action evaluation workshop examing the conflict field's response to COVID.
ID# 2207 -- 2207 -- Disproportionality Trap and Counter Trap -- A discussion of the delicate balancing act required to build support for addressing social problems AND the disproportionate impact of those problems.
ID# 2208 -- 2208 -- Does Nonviolence Work? -- A comparison of the efficacy of violence versus nonviolence in bringing about wanted socio-economic change.
ID# 2209 -- 2209 -- Advancing Black Equality in America -- Longtime conflict scholar Louis Kreisberg reflects on how BLM might make meaningful gains in social justice for Blacks in America.
ID# 2210 -- 2210 -- Ways to Advance Equal Justice in America -- This article suggests steps BLM activists might take at the local, state, and national level in addition to protests to obtain justice.
ID# 2210 -- 2210 -- Ways to Advance Equal Justice in America -- This article suggests steps BLM activists might take at the local, state, and national level in addition to protests to obtain justice.
ID# 2211 -- 2211 -- Put Down the Brick…A Commentary on Community Economics -- An explanation of how all of us can contribute to post-election healing by pursuing "public kinship," connecting with others in our communities.
ID# 2212 -- 2212 -- So What -- A list of six things we all can do to move forward in these fightening and chaotic times.
ID# 2214 -- 2214 -- U.S. Reconciliation in 2020 and Beyond -- Thoughts about what political reconciliation in the U.S. might look like in 2020 and beyond.
ID# 2215 -- 2215 -- These 4 Steps Will Help When You’re Stuck--How do some people make major changes happen? -- Introducing "desire paths," and the importance of designing change to follow them whenever possible.
ID# 2216 -- 2216 -- Chip Hauss - On Coups and Reconciliation -- Chip Hauss's reflection on the juxtaposition of the Jan. 6 events in Washington D.C. and his work on reconciliation.
ID# 2217 -- 2217 -- Ebrahim Rasool on What America Might Learn From South Africa's 300+ Years of Struggle -- A report on a talk by the former U.S. Ambassador from South Africa, on what the South African struggle for racial justice can teach Americans.
ID# 2217 -- 2217 -- Ebrahim Rasool on What America Might Learn From South Africa's 300+ Years of Struggle -- A report on a talk by the former U.S. Ambassador from South Africa, on what the South African struggle for racial justice can teach Americans.
ID# 2217 -- 2217 -- Ebrahim Rasool on What America Might Learn From South Africa's 300+ Years of Struggle -- A report on a talk by the former U.S. Ambassador from South Africa, on what the South African struggle for racial justice can teach Americans.
ID# 2217 -- 2217 -- Ebrahim Rasool on What America Might Learn From South Africa's 300+ Years of Struggle -- Exceptionally wise advice from South Africa on how to overcome polarization with vision, humanism, inclusion, and a balancing of truth, peace, and justice.
ID# 2218 -- 2218 -- Shamil Idriss: America’s Hard Path Forward -- America is in a dangerous time, but there are things we can do to take a path away from further dissension and violence, toward healing and cooperation.
ID# 2219 -- 2219 -- Avoiding a Category 5 Socio-political Hurricane -- We need to figure out how we can live together if we want to avoid a threatening disaster. Prospective reconciliation helps us do that.
ID# 2220 -- 2220 -- A More Positive "Take" on "The Jeep Ad" -- Why and how the Superbowl Jeep ad was much better than it was seen to be.
ID# 2221 -- 2221 -- Positive Thinking -- Why thinking positively about ourselves, our families, communities, nation and world will get us farther than focusing on the bad aspects of "the other."
ID# 2252 -- 2252 -- What Is Qualified Immunity, and What Does It Have to Do With Police Reform? -- 0
ID# 2270 -- 2270 -- The Facts Just Aren’t Getting Through -- 0
ID# 2276 -- 2276 -- What we train our police to do — and what they actually do -- 0
ID# 2291 -- 2291 -- Fear of Public Transit Got Ahead of the Evidence -- 0
ID# 2306 -- 2306 -- China’s Artificial Intelligence Surveillance State Goes Global -- As we struggle with past injustices, we must also fight the injustices of the future. Chinese-style authoritarianism could easily come here.
ID# 2320 -- 2320 -- Addressing the other COVID crisis: Corruption -- 0
ID# 2331 -- 2331 -- Black Lives Matter -- #BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. BLM. combats and counters acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy,
ID# 2349 -- 2349 -- Is there a legal right to free choice of ethno-racial identity? -- An academic look at another reason why combating racism is so difficult--legal and political difficulties in defining membership boundaries.
ID# 2363 -- 2363 -- Why Intellectuals Support Dictators -- For those who thought that the uneducated masses were responsible for authoritarianism, look at the role of intellectual elites.
ID# 2365 -- 2365 -- The 14th Amendment Was Meant to Be a Protection Against State Violence -- 0
ID# 2386 -- 2386 -- We all live in bubbles. It’s time to burst them. -- 0
ID# 2404 -- 2404 -- U.S. Election Violence Is Not Inevitable: How To Prevent It Before, During, And After November 3rd -- A call for Americans to work together to prevent violence and address the accelerated conflict dynamics in the U.S surrounding the U.S. elections
ID# 2404 -- 2404 -- U.S. Election Violence Is Not Inevitable: How To Prevent It Before, During, And After November 3rd -- A call for Americans to work together to prevent violence and address the accelerated conflict dynamics in the U.S surrounding the U.S. elections
ID# 2416 -- 2416 -- Bootprint -- Militarism and the Environment -- A new journal from the Transnational Foundation examining the intersections between violence and environmental crises.
ID# 2421 -- 2421 -- Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Myths and Misrepresentations -- A factsheet produced by the Coalition for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples debunking "fake facts" circulating about the Declaration.
ID# 2436 -- 2436 -- Regional Overview: United States 29 November-5 December 2020 -- ACLED collects the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world.
ID# 2437 -- 2437 -- US Crisis Monitor to Provide Real-Time Data on Political Violence and Demonstrations in America -- A report on protests and political violence surrounding the Nov. 2020 U.S. political elections in 2020.
ID# 2437 -- 2437 -- US Crisis Monitor to Provide Real-Time Data on Political Violence and Demonstrations in America -- A report on protests and political violence surrounding the Nov. 2020 U.S. political elections in 2020.
ID# 2450 -- 2450 -- Countering Global Kleptocracy: A New US Strategy for Fighting Authoritarian Corruption -- A comprehensive examination of the pervasive threat to democracy, prosperity and security posed by globalized corruption.
ID# 2454 -- 2454 -- From Rugged Individualism to Self-organized Connected Communities -- An essay illustrating the trend of participatory, collaborative leadership replacing individual leadership in organizations.
ID# 2457 -- 2457 -- Dr. Joseph Bock and Team of Mediators Helping to Diffuse Political Violence Across U.S. -- Kennesaw State peacebuilders describe their work defusing election violence in Kenya and now in the U.S.
ID# 2457 -- 2457 -- Dr. Joseph Bock and Team of Mediators Helping to Diffuse Political Violence Across U.S. -- Kennesaw State peacebuilders describe their work defusing election violence in Kenya and now in the U.S.
ID# 2461 -- 2461 -- Is That Literally True? -- Exaggeration and sloppy word usage can lead to misunderstanding and unnecessary conflict.
ID# 2470 -- 2470 -- Artificial Intelligence and Negotiation: The New Frontier -- Upcoming Webinar with Colin Rule, online ADR expert discussing the latest developments in AI and how they are relevant to negotiation and dispute resolution.
ID# 2543 -- 2543 -- After Trump, America Needs Accountability for His Corruption -- 0
ID# 2547 -- 2547 -- Western Decline Began in the '90s -- 0
ID# 2560 -- 2560 -- Hating the "Hateful" -- 0
ID# 2574 -- 2574 -- QAnon Was a Theory on a Message Board. Now It’s Headed to Congress. -- 0
ID# 2609 -- 2609 -- The Unlikely New Generation of Unabomber Acolyte -- The myth that a little bit of violence will solve our problems seems to be reemerging, even though violence hardens, rather than softens, opposition. #mbi_context
ID# 2616 -- 2616 -- Fact-checking Trump’s lies is essential. It’s also increasingly fruitless. -- For a world in which self-serving fantasy often replaces reality, a look at why we need fact-checking, why it isn't working, and a call for new ideas.
ID# 2625 -- 2625 -- Trump Is Trying to Turn Violence in Cities Like Kenosha Into His Winning Issue -- 0
ID# 2628 -- 2628 -- Trump’s Scare Tactics Haven’t Worked Against Biden So Far. Could That Change? -- 0
ID# 2632 -- 2632 -- I’m a Body Language Expert. Here’s What I Saw During the Conventions -- 0
ID# 2650 -- 2650 -- How hate and misinformation go viral -- 0
ID# 2683 -- 2683 -- Trump and allies ratchet up disinformation efforts in late stage of campaign -- 0
ID# 2685 -- 2685 -- Our Long, Forgotten History of Election-Related Violence -- 0
ID# 2691 -- 2691 -- The Death of Hannah Fizer -- An important reminder that not all unjustifiable police violence is motivated by racism. Class is also an important risk factor.
ID# 2705 -- 2705 -- How weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city’s power grid -- 0
ID# 2762 -- 2762 -- The Towering Lies of President Trump -- The ultimate definition of facts implicit in the fake facts movement: if it helps me it's true, if it hurts me it's false.
ID# 2764 -- 2764 -- The Coming Crisis of Legitimacy -- 0
ID# 2769 -- 2769 -- US democracy is broken: How to fix voting rights, elections, the Senate, and the Electoral College -- 0
ID# 2775 -- 2775 -- Facebook Is Failing in Global Disinformation Fight, Says Former Worker -- 0
ID# 2815 -- 2815 -- 9/14/20 – Network-Enabled Anarchy: How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use Social Media to Instigate Widespread Violence Against Political Opponents and Law Enforcement -- 0
ID# 2819 -- 2819 -- In the Future, Propaganda Will Be Computer-Generated -- Even more reason to find a truly effective way to shut down many new technologies that make it so easy for the powerful to manipulate public opinion.
ID# 2863 -- 2863 -- The Hate at the Heart of Conspiracy Theory -- A look at how hate opens the door to wild conspiracy theories and enemy images that are as unrealistic as they are grotesque.
ID# 2911 -- 2911 -- Can an Algorithm Help Solve Political Paralysis? -- 0
ID# 2918 -- 2918 -- Trump doesn’t need Russian trolls to spread disinformation. The mainstream media does it for him. -- 0
ID# 2940 -- 2940 -- The Language of Privilege -- An argument that the complex and ever-changing rules of politically correct discourse may actually be reinforcing rather than breaking down "privilege."
ID# 2951 -- 2951 -- Protesters want to defund police. Homicides and violence are spiking. In Oakland, ideology and practicality collide. -- A look at what happens when simplistic, "defund the police" slogans run into the complex world of modern policing.
ID# 2956 -- 2956 -- How to Cover Electoral Conflict -- 0
ID# 2979 -- 2979 -- New research explores authoritarian mind-set of Trump’s core supporters -- 0
ID# 3013 -- 3013 -- Science has been in a “replication crisis” for a decade. Have we learned anything? -- 0
ID# 3019 -- 3019 -- Russian Propaganda Hits Its Mark -- 0
ID# 3070 -- 3070 -- Factional warfare erupts in New York Times over the 1619 Project -- 0
ID# 3076 -- 3076 -- Where Liberal Power Lies -- For those worried about right-wing authoritarianism, look at why the right is worried about left-wing authoritarianism.
ID# 3078 -- 3078 -- ‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI -- 0
ID# 3107 -- 3107 -- Election Day Violence Is a Threat. Here’s How to Prepare for It. -- 0
ID# 3122 -- 3122 -- The Narcissism of The New York Times’ Foreign Coverage -- A reminder of the serious misunderstandings that can arise when you look at other places through the framework of your own situation.
ID# 3124 -- 3124 -- The united hates of America -- 0
ID# 3152 -- 3152 -- Medical advances mask epidemic of violence by cutting murder rate -- 0
ID# 3160 -- 3160 -- What South Africa Can Teach the United States About Repairing a Divided Society -- Another "if it exists it must be possible" story. South Africa can teach us much about how to live with deep divisions and a history of unrightable wrongs.
ID# 3179 -- 3179 -- Once again, Democrats have misunderstood minorities -- 0
ID# 3185 -- 3185 -- The Most Important Divide in American Politics Isn’t Race -- An important and persuasive argument that the progressive left, in its urban and cosmopolitan bubble, misunderstands the big fault line in US society.
ID# 3188 -- 3188 -- America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent -- Insights into the degree to which Pres. Trump threatened the US with authoritarian rule and the danger someone without his shortcomings could pose.
ID# 3245 -- 3245 -- Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves -- 0
ID# 3351 -- 3351 -- Trump’s GOP is Increasingly Racist and Authoritarian—and Here to Stay -- 0
ID# 3386 -- 3386 -- Bravado, Self-Defense, Fear: Why These Young Men Carry Guns -- 0
ID# 3404 -- 3404 -- How not to reform our electoral system -- 0
ID# 3423 -- 3423 -- Do All Black Lives Matter? Or Just Some? -- On the soaring toll of civilian violence against African-Americans
ID# 3517 -- 3517 -- Why Biden Needs to Confront Corruption -- 0
ID# 3530 -- 3530 -- Have Trump’s Lies Wrecked Free Speech? -- We need a way to combat fake facts and disinformation that does not destroy the free and good faith of exchange of ideas that democracy requires.
ID# 3559 -- 3559 -- Facts in Flames -- 0
ID# 3658 -- 3658 -- We need to prepare for ongoing insurrectionary violence and address its root causes -- 0
ID# 3658 -- 3658 -- We need to prepare for ongoing insurrectionary violence and address its root causes -- 0
ID# 3687 -- 3687 -- The Moronic Firing of Will Wilkinson Illustrates Why Fear and Bad Faith Mob Demands Reign Supreme -- 0
ID# 3688 -- 3688 -- Slouching Toward Post-Journalism -- Efforts to reverse US hyper-polarization are likely to be hindered by an ongoing shift of major media outlets to a post-journalism, advocacy-based funding model.
ID# 3699 -- 3699 -- The School for Scale -- An intriguing essay exploring one of the biggest problems we face--the mismatch between our cognitive abilities and the scale of modern society.
ID# 3754 -- 3754 -- Is public sentiment shifting toward support of authoritarianism? Not really. -- 0
ID# 3788 -- 3788 -- Fearing violence and political uncertainty, Americans are buying millions more firearms -- Another reason why we all need to do all that we can to help diffuse our hyperpolarized politics.
ID# 3788 -- 3788 -- Fearing violence and political uncertainty, Americans are buying millions more firearms -- Another reason why we all need to do all that we can to help diffuse our hyperpolarized politics.
ID# 3836 -- 3836 -- Overcoming barriers to Principled Negotiation -- 0
ID# 3856 -- 3856 -- How to Live With Authoritarians -- 0
ID# 3916 -- 3916 -- 5 Pandemic Mistakes We Keep Repeating -- A practical look at how we can fix the many mistakes that we continue to make as we try to navigate social tensions associated with the pandemic.
ID# 3925 -- 3925 -- When did we give up on persuasion? -- An eloquent defense of the neglected art of persuasion -- the most sustainable way of achieving positive social change.
ID# 3937 -- 3937 -- When the “Violence” Isn't Violent -- A compelling case against the now common overuse of the term, "violence." The fight against violence requires being clear about what it does and doesn't mean.
ID# 3938 -- 3938 -- Democracy on the Defense -- Turning Back the Authoritarian Tide -- 0
ID# 3940 -- 3940 -- A World Without War -- A review of a new book that asks critical questions about the threats faced by the US and the role that the military should have meeting those threats.
ID# 3948 -- 3948 -- Pragmatic Compassion/Empathy -- An explanation of why it is in our best interest to empathize with our enemies (even when we don't expect them to reciprocate).
ID# 3949 -- 3949 -- Saving Democracy and Biden’s Challenge to the Conflict and Peacebuilding Fields – Part I -- An exploration of what we need to do to bend the arc of history back toward peace and democracy and away from autocracy, problem-solving paralysis, and civil strife.
ID# 3950 -- 3950 -- Saving Democracy and Biden’s Challenge to the Conflict and Peacebuilding Fields – Part 2 -- Democracy is a system for wisely, equitably, and nonviolently managing conflicts between people with deep cultural differences who are also in continuing competition for scarce resources.
ID# 3951 -- 3951 -- Hyper-Polarization and the Free-Rider Syndrome -- 0
ID# 4077 -- 4077 -- Part 3: Challenging "Bad-Faith" Actors Who Seek to Amplify and Exploit Our Conflicts -- An overview of how different types of "bad-faith" actors exploit our vulnerabilities and undermine "good-faith" efforts to make democracy work.
ID# 4083 -- 4083 -- The King Soopers Shooting: This Time It Was Personal -- A review, with lots of links, into the many facets of the mass shooting and gun violence problem and strategies for addressing it.
ID# 4088 -- 4088 -- Small Scale Reconciliation – Part 5: Take Advantage of Opportunities for Mutually-Beneficial Joint Actions -- This is the last of five videos on small-scale, bottom up reconciliation. Here we discuss negotiating in the context of intractability.
ID# 4124 -- 4124 -- Inside a stealth ‘persuasion machine’ promising Republican victories in 2022 -- 0
ID# 4173 -- 4173 -- America’s Broken Civil-Military Relationship Imperils National Security -- 0
ID# 4181 -- 4181 -- The Fear That Is Shaping American Politics -- 0
ID# 4228 -- 4228 -- Drug Cartel Now Assassinates Its Enemies With Bomb-Toting Drones -- Remember when drones and smart weapons were what made the US military exception. Now we live in a world in which these weapons are widely available!
ID# 4232 -- 4232 -- “Bad-Faith” Actors -- Our Sources of Vulnerability -- An examination of psychological, social, and communication-related factors that make us vulnerable to those who wish to amplify and exploit our conflicts.
ID# 4233 -- 4233 -- Types of “Bad-Faith” Actors -- Our democracy is being attacked by "I'll fight you for it" advocates, ruthless competitors, divide-and-conquer politicians, foreign provocateurs, and malevolent nihilists.
ID# 4234 -- 4234 -- “Bad-Faith” Actor Tactics -- Bad-faith actors are using a wide range of sinister and deceptive tactics to undermine efforts to make collaborative democracy work.
ID# 4234 -- 4234 -- “Bad-Faith” Actor Tactics -- Bad-faith actors are using a wide range of sinister and deceptive tactics to undermine efforts to make collaborative democracy work.
ID# 4268 -- 4268 -- The Killing of Adam Toledo and the Colliding Cycles of Violence in Chicago -- 0
ID# 4294 -- 4294 -- When Will Activists (and the Media) Get Honest About Police Shootings? -- The problem of unjustified police violence is far more complex than media coverage suggests--a look at the issues we really ought to be thinking about.
ID# 4423 -- 4423 -- Mob Violence Against Palestinians in Israel Is Fueled by Groups on WhatsApp -- From the Israeli side of the current crisis, look at the inflammatory effects of social media.
ID# 4441 -- 4441 -- Screaming Into The Void -- A terrific Hidden Brain podcast exploring the neuropsychology of anger and why we are drawn to things that make us mad.
ID# 4443 -- 4443 -- "Fact-Checking" Takes Another Beating -- 0
ID# 4458 -- 4458 -- Five Tactics for Undermining Democracy -- 0
ID# 4468 -- 4468 -- Beliefs Aren't Facts -- An exploration of the all-important distinction between objective facts and personal beliefs and values.
ID# 4498 -- 4498 -- How to Avoid High Conflict -- Yascha Monk talks with Amanda Ripley about “high conflict” in which the focus becomes on "the other," instead of the substantive issue in dispute. Amanda, here, discusses “the way out.”
ID# 4498 -- 4498 -- How to Avoid High Conflict -- Yascha Monk talks with Amanda Ripley about “high conflict” in which the focus becomes on "the other," instead of the substantive issue in dispute. Amanda, here, discusses “the way out.”
ID# 4499 -- 4499 -- Don't Shoot! One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America -- Using giant community meetings with gang members, drug dealers, cops and neighbors, David Kennedy has had remarkable success in reducing violent crime.
ID# 4500 -- 4500 -- This Man Says His Anti-violence Plan Would Save 12,000 Lives. Why aren’t more cities using it? -- Similar to Kennedy's anti-violence work, this article profiles the work of Thomas Abt who created GIVE: Gun Involved Violence Elimination.
ID# 4501 -- 4501 -- Reducing and Preventing Violent Conflict and Violence in the US: What Makes a Good Interaction Between Divided Groups and How to Ensure We “Do No Harm”? -- Four expert conflict resolvers talk about the difficulties of talking across political divides and what to do about that.
ID# 4503 -- 4503 -- Rules and Rhythms of Reconciliation -- This paper explores what happens when there is a disconnect between legal interpretations of "justice," and cultural definitions.
ID# 4515 -- 4515 -- When Language Leads to Violence: How Can Peacebuilders Counter Dangerous Speech -- A webinar held by Beyond Conflict describing what kinds of speech is likely to incite violence, and how such speech can be countered.
ID# 4515 -- 4515 -- When Language Leads to Violence: How Can Peacebuilders Counter Dangerous Speech -- A webinar held by Beyond Conflict describing what kinds of speech is likely to incite violence, and how such speech can be countered.
ID# 4527 -- 4527 -- America Is Not Ready for a War With China -- A sobering argument that our interest group lobbying-based approach to military planning is undermining our ability to deter Chinese aggression.
ID# 4576 -- 4576 -- The Republican Trumpist Authoritarian Threat Isn’t Overhyped -- 0
ID# 4632 -- 4632 -- What's in a Name? -- Attacking the language anti-woke critics use forestalls the real conversation
ID# 4643 -- 4643 -- A Military Drone With A Mind Of Its Own Was Used In Combat, U.N. Says -- 0
ID# 4656 -- 4656 -- Jayne Docherty talks about the Red/Blue Divide She Lives in Everyday -- A preview of a compelling story about a liberal professor finding commonality with her conservative neighbors, and what that could mean for the rest of us in the U.S.
ID# 4658 -- 4658 -- He Promised Peace. Then He Tore His Country Apart. -- 0
ID# 4684 -- 4684 -- Gaza and Armenia Showed Which New War Technologies Might Work -- A report on two instances which demonstrate how rapidly changing military technologies are altering the nature of warfare in surprising and dangerous ways.
ID# 4691 -- 4691 -- Top General Defends Studying Critical Race Theory In The Military -- 0
ID# 4794 -- 4794 -- American Dysfunction Is the Biggest Barrier to Fighting Covid -- 0
ID# 4858 -- 4858 -- THIS ARTICLE WON’T CHANGE YOUR MIND -- The facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs
ID# 4896 -- 4896 -- Martin Luther King called for radical redistribution of material resources -- 0
ID# 4922 -- 4922 -- Oppressive Language List -- 0
ID# 4950 -- 4950 -- A Taxonomy of Fear -- A call for much more courageous and determined efforts to defend the right to voice and debate inevitably controversial thoughts on how to build a better society.
ID# 4995 -- 4995 -- Destruction and Hope in Portland -- From Portland, food for thought on the nature of protest, civic unrest, and the line that separates destructive from constructive forms of social advocacy.
ID# 5009 -- 5009 -- Jayne Docherty: When the Militia Are Your Neighbors and Your Community is a Microcosm of the Country -- Jayne Docherty tells the story of the interactions between her liberal city and conservative county. Unrecognized commonalities of interest abound.
ID# 5018 -- 5018 -- The rise and importance of Secret Congress -- Evidence that there is a functional U.S. Congress that's getting things done by "flying under the radar" and staying away from the hot button issues.
ID# 5027 -- 5027 -- Collectivism and Violence are One -- 0
ID# 5051 -- 5051 -- Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight -- For those willing to consider uncomfortable ideas, an argument that, sometimes, vigorous defense and military solutions may needed.
ID# 5056 -- 5056 -- The Danger of Fact-ist Politics -- Amid all of our worries about misinformation, an argument that we also want to worry about those who are absolutely convinced that they are right.
ID# 5090 -- 5090 -- David Petraeus on American Mistakes in Afghanistan -- David Petraeus It is, perhaps, most responsible for efforts to integrate nationbuilding and peacebuilding into military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. His views at this point.
ID# 5090 -- 5090 -- David Petraeus on American Mistakes in Afghanistan -- David Petraeus It is, perhaps, most responsible for efforts to integrate nationbuilding and peacebuilding into military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. His views at this point.
ID# 5107 -- 5107 -- How ‘Woke’ Became an Insult -- An in-depth exploration of how the language swirling around efforts to promote "social justice" evolves over time.
ID# 5159 -- 5159 -- The Assault on Empiricism -- Amid persistent calls to trust the science and resist fake facts, look at social movements on the left and the right that are failing to do just that.
ID# 5191 -- 5191 -- Misinformation on Facebook got six times more clicks than factual news during the 2020 election, study says -- 0
ID# 5196 -- 5196 -- Adversarial Collaboration Project -- An especially promising project that helps those involved in scientific debates work through their differences in a spirit of collaborative learning.
ID# 5215 -- 5215 -- Civic Genius -- Aiming to overcome political polarization and rebuild American civic culture through everyday opportunities to learn and engage with each other and policymakers.
ID# 5250 -- 5250 -- The Third Revolution in Warfare -- We really need to take the 21st-century revolution in military technology more seriously. It is, for example, quite possible that artificially intelligent weapons.
ID# 5288 -- 5288 -- Facebook Is an Authoritarian State -- 0
ID# 5294 -- 5294 -- How Experts Overlooked Left-Wing Authoritarianism -- A look at how political biases have distorted psychological research in ways that have underestimated the level of left-wing support for authoritarians.
ID# 5294 -- 5294 -- How Experts Overlooked Left-Wing Authoritarianism -- A look at how political biases have distorted psychological research in ways that have underestimated the level of left-wing support for authoritarians.
ID# 5403 -- 5403 -- t's Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda. -- 0
ID# 5404 -- 5404 -- Adam Schiff points to a second insurrection — by members of Congress themselves -- 0
ID# 5463 -- 5463 -- Pastries and Persuasion: How a Global Tax Deal Got Done -- A story about a successful negotiation effort that is taking a major step toward limiting the tax shelters that the global kleptocracy finds so valuable.
ID# 5463 -- 5463 -- Pastries and Persuasion: How a Global Tax Deal Got Done -- A story about a successful negotiation effort that is taking a major step toward limiting the tax shelters that the global kleptocracy finds so valuable.
ID# 5491 -- 5491 -- Madeleine Albright: America's Opportunity to Lead the Fight Against Authoritarianism -- 0
ID# 5540 -- 5540 -- I’m With Condoleezza Rice About White Guilt -- A thoughtful essay exploring the relationship between "white guilt" over the unrightable wrongs of the past and the task of building a more equitable society.
ID# 5564 -- 5564 -- Combating Hate Speech: Identifying, monitoring and combating hate speech on social media. -- Lexicons which identify and explain inflammatory language and offer alternative words and phrases can combat the spread of such speech.
ID# 5564 -- 5564 -- Combating Hate Speech: Identifying, monitoring and combating hate speech on social media. -- Lexicons which identify and explain inflammatory language and offer alternative words and phrases can combat the spread of such speech.
ID# 5569 -- 5569 -- Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism -- Dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding, and humanity.
ID# 5606 -- 5606 -- Kathleen Stock won’t be the last -- A new age of authoritarianism has only just begun -- 0
ID# 5606 -- 5606 -- Kathleen Stock won’t be the last -- A new age of authoritarianism has only just begun -- 0
ID# 5681 -- 5681 -- Trust is a key ingredient in ‘functional institutions’ — and Congress is fresh out of it -- 0
ID# 5705 -- 5705 -- Progressives ruined San Francisco, but at least ‘advocacy’ is thriving -- 0
ID# 5721 -- 5721 -- We Can't Keep Taking Liberal Democracy for Granted -- Activists on both the left and the right must stop flirting with authoritarianism.
ID# 5741 -- 5741 -- Reversing Polarization and Escalation - Part 1 -- A discussion of eight things that disputants can do to avoid or reverse destructive escalation and polarization.
ID# 5742 -- 5742 -- Reversing Polarization and Escalation - Part 2 -- A second in a series, many more things that disputants and third parties can do to avoid or reverse destructive escalation and polarization.
ID# 5742 -- 5742 -- Reversing Polarization and Escalation - Part 2 -- A second in a series, many more things that disputants and third parties can do to avoid or reverse destructive escalation and polarization.
ID# 5743 -- 5743 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding: Video Presentation to the Institute for Global Negotation -- A video talk that Guy and Heidi Burgess gave to IGN in September, 2021 on Massively Parallel Peacebuilding (MPP)
ID# 5743 -- 5743 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding: Video Presentation to the Institute for Global Negotation -- A video talk that Guy and Heidi Burgess gave to IGN in September, 2021 on Massively Parallel Peacebuilding (MPP)
ID# 5809 -- 5809 -- Delaying Conflict Is Better Than Venting for Relationships -- 0
ID# 5861 -- 5861 -- With New Anti-Corruption Strategy, Biden Takes Aim at Kleptocrats -- 0
ID# 5872 -- 5872 -- 3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection -- 0
ID# 5874 -- 5874 -- Ukraine Is a Democracy Fighting Corruption. That Scares Russia. -- 0
ID# 5942 -- 5942 -- In an acrimonious time, some welcome fresh attention to Socrates and the art of civilized arguing -- An eye-opening look at the genuine advantages associated with the Socratic approach to debate and collaborative truth seeking.
ID# 5998 -- 5998 -- A Tale of Two Authoritarians -- 0
ID# 6003 -- 6003 -- Rob a bank with a gun in NYC and get just one year in jail! -- 0
ID# 6023 -- 6023 -- AllSides' Media Bias Chart -- Another effort to help news consumers find sources from different perspectives so they can get a fuller picture and think for themselves.
ID# 6026 -- 6026 -- Controversial Speeches on Campus Are Not Violence -- 0
ID# 6075 -- 6075 -- University of Washington: Professor created ‘toxic environment’ by deviating from university-approved language about Native American land -- 0
ID# 6104 -- 6104 -- White House says Biden wasn't 'casting doubt' on midterms' legitimacy -- Disturbing evidence that the left is getting closer to joining the right in denying the legitimacy of electoral processes that don't yield the desired results.
ID# 6120 -- 6120 -- Why the U.S. Military Isn’t Ready for Civil War -- A sobering report about what military strategists are thinking about prospects for a US Civil War (and why we should quit demonizing one another).
ID# 6131 -- 6131 -- Review of Peter Coleman's The Way Out -- A review of Peter Coleman's recent book, The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization.
ID# 6138 -- 6138 -- Inequality, Identity, and Partisanship: How redistribution can stem the tide of mass polarization -- 0
ID# 6181 -- 6181 -- Peter Adler: COVID Consequences: Slouching Toward Civil War -- A report on a poll regarding likelihood of civil war in America, and what that means for conflict resolution work.
ID# 6181 -- 6181 -- Peter Adler: COVID Consequences: Slouching Toward Civil War -- A report on a poll regarding likelihood of civil war in America, and what that means for conflict resolution work.
ID# 6181 -- 6181 -- Peter Adler: COVID Consequences: Slouching Toward Civil War -- A report on a poll regarding likelihood of civil war in America, and what that means for conflict resolution work.
ID# 6181 -- 6181 -- Peter Adler: COVID Consequences: Slouching Toward Civil War -- A report on a poll regarding likelihood of civil war in America, and what that means for conflict resolution work.
ID# 6181 -- 6181 -- Peter Adler: COVID Consequences: Slouching Toward Civil War -- While we can't help everyone or deal with every problem, we can do much to help. Do what you can, where you can. It will make a difference to the people you touch.
ID# 6244 -- 6244 -- Europe Thinks Putin Is Planning Something Even Worse Than War -- An argument for thinking about the Ukrainian crisis as part of a 21st-century hybrid warfare campaign and not a simple case of military aggression.
ID# 6274 -- 6274 -- ‘Taking the Voters Out of the Equation’: How the Parties Are Killing Competition -- Another reason why people are cynical about politics and the US Congress--their votes increasingly don't matter.
ID# 6278 -- 6278 -- The Power of Art in Gray Zone Conflicts -- Michelle LeBaron reflects on the value of artistic approaches to complex, intractable gray-zone conflicts.
ID# 6279 -- 6279 -- Universities Need to Do Better -- A reflection on how universities could do better understanding and addressing intractable conflicts and what CR professionals can do to make more of a difference.
ID# 6280 -- 6280 -- Addressing The "Grey Zone*" Warfare Threat to Negotiation -- Reflections on the Seshat project's inquiry into the many different ways in which bad-faith actors are trying to sabotage efforts to find mutually beneficial solutions to common problems.
ID# 6281 -- 6281 -- Reflections on Neuroscience, Conflict, and Peacebuilding -- Neuroscience advances into the psychological complexity of conflict behavior need to be accompanied by a comparable revolution in the way we think about the social complexity of conflict processes.
ID# 6282 -- 6282 -- Priorities for Reducing Political Polarization in the United States -- A discussion of the three, often overlooked ideas that are critical to "saving democracy" in the US (and most everywhere else).
ID# 6318 -- 6318 -- The Seeds of Political Violence Are Being Sown in Church -- 0
ID# 6349 -- 6349 -- Ukraine is the world’s first major “troll power” war -- In addition to overt aggression, the Ukrainian War is showing us the military implications of high-tech efforts to inflame and exploit the West's internal political divides.
ID# 6359 -- 6359 -- The Military-Industrial-Academic-Political-Scientific Complex -- 0
ID# 6417 -- 6417 -- Defeat Trump, Now More Than Ever -- Reflections on the critical need to prevent a second Putinesque Trump Presidency and the mistakes that Democrats are making that are moving the country in that direction.
ID# 6423 -- 6423 -- The Many Types of Reconciliation -- Prospective, retrospective, unilateral, bilateral, multilateral, historic, and contemporaneous reconciliation—how are they different? Which to use when?
ID# 6424 -- 6424 -- The Ukrainian War: What Happens When You Have a War That Both Sides Absolutely, Positively Can't Afford to Lose? -- A look at runaway escalation and what happens when people feel that they are enmeshed in a climactic battle that they simply cannot lose.
ID# 6424 -- 6424 -- The Ukrainian War: What Happens When You Have a War That Both Sides Absolutely, Positively Can't Afford to Lose? -- A look at runaway escalation and what happens when people feel that they are enmeshed in a climactic battle that they simply cannot lose.
ID# 6424 -- 6424 -- The Ukrainian War: What Happens When You Have a War That Both Sides Absolutely, Positively Can't Afford to Lose? -- A look at runaway escalation and what happens when people feel that they are enmeshed in a climactic battle that they simply cannot lose.
ID# 6452 -- 6452 -- Expelled from a Progressive Think Tank—for the Crime of Denouncing Antifa Violence -- 0
ID# 6455 -- 6455 -- The U.S. Has a Violence Problem, and It’s Up to Democrats to Solve It -- 0
ID# 6459 -- 6459 -- When DEI Measures Crush Free Speech -- 0
ID# 6459 -- 6459 -- When DEI Measures Crush Free Speech -- 0
ID# 6471 -- 6471 -- The Dictator’s New Playbook -- Now that Ukraine has our attention, it's time to start looking at the tactics that dictators and aspiring dictators have been using to gain control.
ID# 6484 -- 6484 -- Pronouns, Pluralism, and the Problem of Free Speech in Public Schools -- 0
ID# 6484 -- 6484 -- Pronouns, Pluralism, and the Problem of Free Speech in Public Schools -- 0
ID# 6486 -- 6486 -- Why Propaganda Works (The “Illusory Truth Effect”) -- 0
ID# 6491 -- 6491 -- Our information silos make it easy to find Putin’s take on the news -- 0
ID# 6508 -- 6508 -- Despair over disparities: systemic racism or systemic dysfunction? -- 0
ID# 6533 -- 6533 -- Fighting Disinformation Can Feel Like a Lost Cause. It Isn’t. -- 0
ID# 6546 -- 6546 -- Applying conflict resolution insights to the hyper-polarized, society-wide conflicts threatening liberal democracies -- A call for those with conflict-related expertise to do more to help society more constructively handle the scale and complexity of today's big conflicts while also more effectively countering the efforts of bad-faith actors who are actively working to inflame and exploit our conflicts.
ID# 6546 -- 6546 -- Applying conflict resolution insights to the hyper-polarized, society-wide conflicts threatening liberal democracies -- A call for those with conflict-related expertise to do more to help society more constructively handle the scale and complexity of today's big conflicts while also more effectively countering the efforts of bad-faith actors who are actively working to inflame and exploit our conflicts.
ID# 6547 -- 6547 -- Applying conflict resolution insights to hyper-polarization: “When will (we) ever learn?” -- Long-time conflict resolution scholar and practitioner, Carrie Menkel-Meadow reflects on the many causes of hyper-polarization and suggests new metaphors and approaches for replacing it with constructive, collaborative problem solving.
ID# 6547 -- 6547 -- Applying conflict resolution insights to hyper-polarization: “When will (we) ever learn?” -- Long-time conflict resolution scholar and practitioner, Carrie Menkel-Meadow reflects on the many causes of hyper-polarization and suggests new metaphors and approaches for replacing it with constructive, collaborative problem solving.
ID# 6547 -- 6547 -- Applying conflict resolution insights to hyper-polarization: “When will (we) ever learn?” -- Long-time conflict resolution scholar and practitioner, Carrie Menkel-Meadow reflects on the many causes of hyper-polarization and suggests new metaphors and approaches for replacing it with constructive, collaborative problem solving.
ID# 6548 -- 6548 -- Adding to the call to action—A few more thoughts -- An exploration of the importance of framing and the need to take control of the destructive narratives that are so pervasive in polarized democracies. We need to replace them with a shared vision for our future -- one that is attractive to everyone including those with whom we disagree.
ID# 6548 -- 6548 -- Adding to the call to action—A few more thoughts -- An exploration of the importance of framing and the need to take control of the destructive narratives that are so pervasive in polarized democracies. We need to replace them with a shared vision for our future -- one that is attractive to everyone including those with whom we disagree.
ID# 6549 -- 6549 -- Helping organizations and individuals develop conflict wisdom -- An appeal for the conflict field to go beyond interpersonal work to organizational work, particularly in businesses and business schools and an explanation of how peacebuilding "hubs" have been used in Belgium and The Netherlands to "scale up" peacebuilding to the societal level.
ID# 6549 -- 6549 -- Helping organizations and individuals develop conflict wisdom -- An appeal for the conflict field to go beyond interpersonal work to organizational work, particularly in businesses and business schools and an explanation of how peacebuilding "hubs" have been used in Belgium and The Netherlands to "scale up" peacebuilding to the societal level.
ID# 6550 -- 6550 -- Extended Commentary: Applying Conflict Resolution Insights to Hyper-Polarization: “When Will (We) Ever Learn?” -- Lifelong conflict resolution scholar and practitioner reflects on hyper-polarization and what the CR field can do about it.
ID# 6553 -- 6553 -- The Hyper-Polarization Crisis: a Conflict Resolution Challenge -- In partnership with the Conflict Resolution Quarterly's new Feature Article series, Beyond Intractability is convening a new online discussion focused on the hyper-polarization crisis.
ID# 6573 -- 6573 -- Can Complex Thinking Bring Peace To A World Of Conflict? with Guy Burgess -- A podcast conversation exploring the nature of large-scale, complex social systems and how the structure of these systems demands a fundamentally different approach to resolving conflicts and building peace.
ID# 6574 -- 6574 -- Talk with Shamil Idress, CEO of Search for Common Ground -- Heidi Burgess interviews Shamill Idress about his career, Search for Common Ground's work, current challenges facing Search, the peacebuilding field, and the world as a whole--and how we can meet them.
ID# 6574 -- 6574 -- Talk with Shamil Idress, CEO of Search for Common Ground -- Heidi Burgess interviews Shamill Idress about his career, Search for Common Ground's work, current challenges facing Search, the peacebuilding field, and the world as a whole--and how we can meet them.
ID# 6574 -- 6574 -- Talk with Shamil Idress, CEO of Search for Common Ground -- Heidi Burgess interviews Shamill Idress about his career, Search for Common Ground's work, current challenges facing Search, the peacebuilding field, and the world as a whole--and how we can meet them.
ID# 6574 -- 6574 -- Talk with Shamil Idress, CEO of Search for Common Ground -- Heidi Burgess interviews Shamill Idress about his career, Search for Common Ground's work, current challenges facing Search, the peacebuilding field, and the world as a whole--and how we can meet them.
ID# 6574 -- 6574 -- Talk with Shamil Idress, CEO of Search for Common Ground -- Heidi Burgess interviews Shamill Idress about his career, Search for Common Ground's work, current challenges facing Search, the peacebuilding field, and the world as a whole--and how we can meet them.
ID# 6574 -- 6574 -- Talk with Shamil Idress, CEO of Search for Common Ground -- Heidi Burgess interviews Shamill Idress about his career, Search for Common Ground's work, current challenges facing Search, the peacebuilding field, and the world as a whole--and how we can meet them.
ID# 6574 -- 6574 -- Talk with Shamil Idress, CEO of Search for Common Ground -- Peacebuilding has grown substantially in the last 40 years, but we still need to grow more and become much more effective, if we are to have an impact on today's many highly-destructive, dangerous conflicts.
ID# 6577 -- 6577 -- Authoritarian Rule Challenging Democracy as Dominant Global Model -- 0
ID# 6577 -- 6577 -- Authoritarian Rule Challenging Democracy as Dominant Global Model -- 0
ID# 6610 -- 6610 -- Kleptocracy and National Security -- 0
ID# 6635 -- 6635 -- Free speech doesn’t mean hecklers get to shut down campus debate -- 0
ID# 6635 -- 6635 -- Free speech doesn’t mean hecklers get to shut down campus debate -- 0
ID# 6692 -- 6692 -- We Must Break the Logic of War Now--Before We Get World War III -- An editorial reprinted from The Hill reflecting on the dangers of the war in Ukraine, and ways out that would chart a path towards long-term global stability.
ID# 6692 -- 6692 -- We Must Break the Logic of War Now--Before We Get World War III -- An editorial reprinted from The Hill reflecting on the dangers of the war in Ukraine, and ways out that would chart a path towards long-term global stability.
ID# 6697 -- 6697 -- How the West Got Russia’s Military So, So Wrong -- 0
ID# 6713 -- 6713 -- Propaganda as Signaling -- 0
ID# 6724 -- 6724 -- Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee -- 0
ID# 6724 -- 6724 -- Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee -- 0
ID# 6735 -- 6735 -- The 2020 US Election – What Happens When We Have an Election That Both Sides Absolutely Positively Can't Afford to Lose? -- Articles written during the 2020 election highlighting the ways in which hyperpolarization was threatening US democracy. As the 2022 election approaches, virtually all of these dynamics are still operating.
ID# 6736 -- 6736 -- The Biden Transition – Saving Democracy and Biden’s Challenge to the Conflict and Peacebuilding Fields -- President Biden's inauguration was a hopeful occasion which challenged us all to find ways of defusing our hyper-polarized politics. Now, as our politics becomes even more divisive, the challenge remains.
ID# 6782 -- 6782 -- Why the Federal Reserve has made a historic mistake on inflation -- 0
ID# 6817 -- 6817 -- The Attitude of Empire -- Moral superiority and insecurity are a deadly combination.
ID# 6837 -- 6837 -- Social Media and Political Dysfunction: A Collaborative Review -- 0
ID# 6857 -- 6857 -- School Boards Are No Match for America’s Political Dysfunction -- 0
ID# 6875 -- 6875 -- The Purpose of Persuasion -- 0
ID# 6888 -- 6888 -- At Harvard, Facts Are For Losers -- 0
ID# 6904 -- 6904 -- How Russia employs fake fact-checking in its disinformation arsenal -- 0
ID# 6928 -- 6928 -- Authoritarianism is surging. Can liberal democracy fight back? -- 0
ID# 6928 -- 6928 -- Authoritarianism is surging. Can liberal democracy fight back? -- 0
ID# 7035 -- 7035 -- Your Kids Are Not Doomed -- A persuasive argument against one of the terrible manifestations of fear, hopelessness, and cynicism – the decision not to have kids.
ID# 7037 -- 7037 -- Woodward and Bernstein thought Nixon defined corruption. Then came Trump. -- 0
ID# 7047 -- 7047 -- Banning Hate Speech Won’t End Extremist Violence -- 0
ID# 7047 -- 7047 -- Banning Hate Speech Won’t End Extremist Violence -- 0
ID# 7047 -- 7047 -- Banning Hate Speech Won’t End Extremist Violence -- 0
ID# 7050 -- 7050 -- The Long Arm of Authoritarianism -- 0
ID# 7050 -- 7050 -- The Long Arm of Authoritarianism -- 0
ID# 7053 -- 7053 -- How Much Damage Have Marjorie Taylor Greene and the ‘Bullies’ Done to the G.O.P.? -- A look at what social scientists think are the differences between political extremes on the left and the right.
ID# 7056 -- 7056 -- San Francisco Schools Are Retiring ‘Chief.’ That’s Not as Frivolous as It Seems. -- A look at the extraordinary complexity of language and the many ways in which efforts to control its use can have surprising, unintended, and often detrimental consequences.
ID# 7061 -- 7061 -- ‘How Civil Wars Start,’ a Warning About the State of the Union -- One key to avoiding war is to take the threat seriously and not fall into the "it could never happen here" trap.
ID# 7073 -- 7073 -- Invitation to Violence: Anti-Israel Group’s Map Puts ‘Target’ on Boston Jews -- 0
ID# 7077 -- 7077 -- There Has to Be a Better Way to Run the Government -- A readable case study of the complexities of contemporary policymaking and an explanation of why we can't seem to fix much of anything.
ID# 7079 -- 7079 -- How the Internet Became a Doom Loop -- Much of hyperpolarization is attributable to vulnerabilities inherent in the structure of modern, Internet-based information systems which somehow need to be overcome.
ID# 7079 -- 7079 -- How the Internet Became a Doom Loop -- Much of hyperpolarization is attributable to vulnerabilities inherent in the structure of modern, Internet-based information systems which somehow need to be overcome.
ID# 7081 -- 7081 -- American Rasputin -- A profile of the complex nature of one of the many different types of bad-faith actors who are making it so much harder for democracy to succeed.
ID# 7088 -- 7088 -- ‘We exist but it is not a life’: Afghan women face bleak prospects under Taliban -- A look at the terrible consequences that result when efforts to make power-with democratic societies fail and authoritarians take over.
ID# 7088 -- 7088 -- ‘We exist but it is not a life’: Afghan women face bleak prospects under Taliban -- A look at the terrible consequences that result when efforts to make power-with democratic societies fail and authoritarians take over.
ID# 7091 -- 7091 -- How the gay rights movement found such stunning success -- As we contemplate strategies for promoting constructive social change, it's worth looking to past successes for guidance.
ID# 7094 -- 7094 -- How Bipartisan Gun-Control Talks Actually Succeeded -- Another "if it exist it must be possible" story --- this one focuses on the especially incendiary topic of gun control.
ID# 7099 -- 7099 -- We’re Staring at Our Phones, Full of Rage for ‘the Other Side’ -- A summary of the latest social science research on the intersection between social media use and hyper-polarization.
ID# 7103 -- 7103 -- How Diverse Should Viewpoint Diversity Be? -- A look at the tough challenges associated with building a free society that fairly and wisely accommodates a diverse array of cultures, values, and perceptions of objective truth.
ID# 7106 -- 7106 -- Turnout Myths Are the Democrats' Drug of Choice -- Abandoning political persuasion in favor of "mobilize the base" strategies forces political leaders to rely on fear and hate mongering strategies that further drive the escalation spiral.
ID# 7106 -- 7106 -- Turnout Myths Are the Democrats' Drug of Choice -- Abandoning political persuasion in favor of "mobilize the base" strategies forces political leaders to rely on fear and hate mongering strategies that further drive the escalation spiral.
ID# 7110 -- 7110 -- Reflections on the January 6 Hearings and the Need for a Broader Investigation of Hyper-Polarization -- The continuing chasm that divides Trump supporters and opponents following the January 6 hearings, highlights the need for a much more comprehensive effort to address the hyper-polarization problem.
ID# 7111 -- 7111 -- The Key to Revitalizing Liberal Democracy: Think of It As a Conflict Handling System -- 0
ID# 7111 -- 7111 -- The Key to Revitalizing Liberal Democracy: Think of It As a Conflict Handling System -- 0
ID# 7112 -- 7112 -- Seven Esential Elements of Successful Democracies -- 0
ID# 7112 -- 7112 -- Seven Esential Elements of Successful Democracies -- 0
ID# 7113 -- 7113 -- Obstacles to Implementing the Elements of Successful Democracy -- 0
ID# 7114 -- 7114 -- The "Things that Need Doing" Matrix -- 0
ID# 7116 -- 7116 -- The Perception Gap from "More in Common" -- A study exploring how Americans tend to have a distorted understanding of people on the other side of the aisle, what causes it, and why it matters.
ID# 7117 -- 7117 -- Which Gun Laws Work? Article in RAND Policy Currents -- A six-year study evaluating scientific evidence about the effects of various gun laws on homicides, suicides, and mass shootings.
ID# 7117 -- 7117 -- Which Gun Laws Work? Article in RAND Policy Currents -- A six-year study evaluating scientific evidence about the effects of various gun laws on homicides, suicides, and mass shootings.
ID# 7119 -- 7119 -- Transfroming the Conversation on Carbon Pricing USA -- A policy dialogue between carbon pricing advocates and environmental justice activists about how to advance climate policy in ways that better include the concerns of vulnerable communities.
ID# 7119 -- 7119 -- Transfroming the Conversation on Carbon Pricing USA -- A policy dialogue between carbon pricing advocates and environmental justice activists about how to advance climate policy in ways that better include the concerns of vulnerable communities.
ID# 7121 -- 7121 -- Monuments, mascots, and Naming: A guide to Conversations and Community and Memory -- A guide to help everday citizens constructively explore and discuss controversies surrounding monuments, mascots, and names that some find uplifting, and others find offensive or destructive.
ID# 7122 -- 7122 -- Adapting a Network's Theory of Change from Network Weaver -- A discussion of how networks can use a phased theory of change to grow together and to perpetuate more and new collaborations and eventually system change and large-scale impacts.
ID# 7123 -- 7123 -- To Build a Bridge: The Bridge Alliance Podcasts -- A podcast series focused on illuminating the complex societal issues we face and highlighting the solution-oriented work of the many organizations and community leaders in the Bridge Allinace Network.
ID# 7123 -- 7123 -- To Build a Bridge: The Bridge Alliance Podcasts -- A podcast series focused on illuminating the complex societal issues we face and highlighting the solution-oriented work of the many organizations and community leaders in the Bridge Allinace Network.
ID# 7124 -- 7124 -- Citizen Connect -- A non-partisan platform to help Americans find ways to heal our political divides and strengthen our democracy by making it easy to find civic organizations and events of interest to all visitors.
ID# 7124 -- 7124 -- Citizen Connect -- A non-partisan platform to help Americans find ways to heal our political divides and strengthen our democracy by making it easy to find civic organizations and events of interest to all visitors.
ID# 7124 -- 7124 -- Citizen Connect -- A non-partisan platform to help Americans find ways to heal our political divides and strengthen our democracy by making it easy to find civic organizations and events of interest to all visitors.
ID# 7125 -- 7125 -- Rich Rubenstein's Blog -- A blog from Richard Rubenstein, a professor of Conflict Resolution at the Carter School. Most recently Rich has focused on the quest for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine.
ID# 7126 -- 7126 -- Civics Alliance -- A national coalition of organizations and citizens dedicated to preserving and improving America’s civics education.
ID# 7126 -- 7126 -- Civics Alliance -- A national coalition of organizations and citizens dedicated to preserving and improving America’s civics education.
ID# 7127 -- 7127 -- ICTs for Monitoring and Evaluation of Peacebuilding Programmes -- This paper explores the incorporation of information and communications technologies (ICTs) into the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems of peacebuilding programmes.
ID# 7127 -- 7127 -- ICTs for Monitoring and Evaluation of Peacebuilding Programmes -- This paper explores the incorporation of information and communications technologies (ICTs) into the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems of peacebuilding programmes.
ID# 7128 -- 7128 -- A Guide for Professional Journalism in Conflict Zones -- Exploring the challenges of reporting news from conflict zones, this guide provides a "time out" for journalists to reflect on their role as investigators and deiverers of information to society.
ID# 7128 -- 7128 -- A Guide for Professional Journalism in Conflict Zones -- Exploring the challenges of reporting news from conflict zones, this guide provides a "time out" for journalists to reflect on their role as investigators and deiverers of information to society.
ID# 7128 -- 7128 -- A Guide for Professional Journalism in Conflict Zones -- Exploring the challenges of reporting news from conflict zones, this guide provides a "time out" for journalists to reflect on their role as investigators and deiverers of information to society.
ID# 7129 -- 7129 -- Measuring the Un-Measurable -- This practical how-to guide provides tools, methodologies, and social science approaches that can be utilised for measuring intangible change in conflict affected and fragile environments.
ID# 7130 -- 7130 -- Practical Approaches to Theories of Change in Conflict, Security, and Justice Programmes -- A DFID document presenting practical skills for developing high quality theories of change, and understading the role they play in conflict, security and justice program design and assessment.
ID# 7130 -- 7130 -- Practical Approaches to Theories of Change in Conflict, Security, and Justice Programmes -- A DFID document presenting practical skills for developing high quality theories of change, and understading the role they play in conflict, security and justice program design and assessment.
ID# 7133 -- 7133 -- Allison Pike-Merrell Interviews Nawaz Mohammed, Sri Lanka Country Director, Search for Common Ground -- Masters student at the Carter School Allison Pike-Merrell talks with Nawaz Mohammed, about his work on reconciliation and peacebuilding in Sri Lanka.
ID# 7133 -- 7133 -- Allison Pike-Merrell Interviews Nawaz Mohammed, Sri Lanka Country Director, Search for Common Ground -- SFCG country director Nawaz Mohamed talks about his background, how he got into peacebuilding work, and how (and why) he is working for reconciliation in his native Sri Lanka.
ID# 7141 -- 7141 -- In Defense of Political Escalation -- 0
ID# 7162 -- 7162 -- From Chris Honeyman: Statement of J. Michael Luttig to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6, 2021 Attack on the United States Capitol -- Chris Honeyman observes that prominent conservative Michael Luttig's statement to the January 6 committee reads very much like the CRQ feature article.
ID# 7162 -- 7162 -- From Chris Honeyman: Statement of J. Michael Luttig to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6, 2021 Attack on the United States Capitol -- Chris Honeyman observes that prominent conservative Michael Luttig's statement to the January 6 committee reads very much like the CRQ feature article.
ID# 7162 -- 7162 -- From Chris Honeyman: Statement of J. Michael Luttig to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6, 2021 Attack on the United States Capitol -- Chris Honeyman observes that prominent conservative Michael Luttig's statement to the January 6 committee reads very much like the CRQ feature article.
ID# 7162 -- 7162 -- From Chris Honeyman: Statement of J. Michael Luttig to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6, 2021 Attack on the United States Capitol -- Luttig asserts that America is at war with itself and if its leaders do not quickly develop the moral courage to make peace, America is doomed.
ID# 7163 -- 7163 -- Solon Simmons: Applying Root Narrative Theory to the Republican Party and American Politics -- This article applies an approach to understanding narratives and their impact on events called "Root Narrative Theory" to examine the Republican party over the last 100 years.
ID# 7163 -- 7163 -- Solon Simmons: Applying Root Narrative Theory to the Republican Party and American Politics -- Only Republicans can save the party from the abyss they have fallen into; the way out involves changing their dominant root narratives that drive their behavior.
ID# 7165 -- 7165 -- The Subtle Ways Even Peaceful Partisans Enable Political Violence -- 0
ID# 7192 -- 7192 -- Supreme Court steps into a void left by congressional dysfunction -- 0
ID# 7192 -- 7192 -- Supreme Court steps into a void left by congressional dysfunction -- 0
ID# 7227 -- 7227 -- Louis Kriesberg: Asymmetric Polarization -- Lou Kriesberg, co-author with Bruce Dayton of Constructive Conflicts, offers his view that "polarization" implies equivalance of responsibility, which is not accurate.
ID# 7227 -- 7227 -- Louis Kriesberg: Asymmetric Polarization -- Lou Kriesberg, co-author with Bruce Dayton of Constructive Conflicts, offers his view that "polarization" implies equivalance of responsibility, which is not accurate.
ID# 7227 -- 7227 -- Louis Kriesberg: Asymmetric Polarization -- He also offers a variety of other comments adding examples, references, and further ideas to strengthen the original document.
ID# 7227 -- 7227 -- Louis Kriesberg: Asymmetric Polarization -- He also offers a variety of other comments adding examples, references, and further ideas to strengthen the original document.
ID# 7228 -- 7228 -- Larry Susskind: Consensus Building in the Age of Trump -- Listening to or caring about "the other side" has become much less common in "the age of Trump," but that just makes the roles of neutrals all the more important.
ID# 7228 -- 7228 -- Larry Susskind: Consensus Building in the Age of Trump -- Listening to or caring about "the other side" has become much less common in "the age of Trump," but that just makes the roles of neutrals all the more important.
ID# 7228 -- 7228 -- Larry Susskind: Consensus Building in the Age of Trump -- Listening to or caring about "the other side" has become much less common in "the age of Trump," but that just makes the roles of neutrals all the more important.
ID# 7228 -- 7228 -- Larry Susskind: Consensus Building in the Age of Trump -- Listening to or caring about "the other side" has become much less common in "the age of Trump," but that just makes the roles of neutrals all the more important.
ID# 7228 -- 7228 -- Larry Susskind: Consensus Building in the Age of Trump -- Listening to or caring about "the other side" has become much less common in "the age of Trump," but that just makes the roles of neutrals all the more important.
ID# 7228 -- 7228 -- Larry Susskind: Consensus Building in the Age of Trump -- We must be absolutely diligent about maintaining our neutrality – no matter how strongly we feel personally – if we want to make a case for the value we add.
ID# 7229 -- 7229 -- Chip Hauss: Beyond Polarization -- People and organizations in fields allied with peacebuilding are already engaging in massively parallel problems solving, Peacebuilders can learn from their examples.
ID# 7229 -- 7229 -- Chip Hauss: Beyond Polarization -- People and organizations in fields allied with peacebuilding are already engaging in massively parallel problems solving, Peacebuilders can learn from their examples.
ID# 7229 -- 7229 -- Chip Hauss: Beyond Polarization -- People and organizations in fields allied with peacebuilding are already engaging in massively parallel problems solving, Peacebuilders can learn from their examples.
ID# 7229 -- 7229 -- Chip Hauss: Beyond Polarization -- People and organizations in fields allied with peacebuilding are already engaging in massively parallel problems solving, Peacebuilders can learn from their examples.
ID# 7229 -- 7229 -- Chip Hauss: Beyond Polarization -- People and organizations in fields allied with peacebuilding are already engaging in massively parallel problems solving, Peacebuilders can learn from their examples.
ID# 7229 -- 7229 -- Chip Hauss: Beyond Polarization -- People and organizations in fields allied with peacebuilding are already engaging in massively parallel problems solving, Peacebuilders can learn from their examples.
ID# 7229 -- 7229 -- Chip Hauss: Beyond Polarization -- We’ll counter toxic polarization if and only if we offer people a better and credible alternative that they can put into practice in the lived experience of their daily lives.
ID# 7230 -- 7230 -- The 12 Laws of Democracy and Pluralism -- For those who feel that the goal of a democracy that lives up to its ideals is slipping away, an online course that asks hard questions about where we are going wrong and how we could do better.
ID# 7299 -- 7299 -- The Great Global Rearmament: Ukraine and the Dangerous Rise in Military Spending -- 0
ID# 7307 -- 7307 -- The Warped Vision of “Anti-Racism” -- 0
ID# 7311 -- 7311 -- I stopped reading the news. Is the problem me — or the product? -- For news junkies and journalists, provocative questions about the benefits (and the costs) of the information we consume and produce.
ID# 7311 -- 7311 -- I stopped reading the news. Is the problem me — or the product? -- For news junkies and journalists, provocative questions about the benefits (and the costs) of the information we consume and produce.
ID# 7356 -- 7356 -- The Racial Binary Is Inadequate -- An exploration of the limits of binary thinking on race and the advantages of a much more complex and nuanced exploration of our diversity -- an approach that can help diffuse a lot of tension.
ID# 7357 -- 7357 -- I spent years hating activists. Then I tried listening to them -- An account of somebody who did something that we all need to do more -– really listen to and try to understand the people with whom we disagree.
ID# 7360 -- 7360 -- How You Feel About Gender Roles Can Tell Us How You’ll Vote -- A much more sophisticated, well documented, and accurate look at the nature of the gender divide and the role that it plays in the larger societal conflict.
ID# 7378 -- 7378 -- A Usable Past for a Post-American Nation -- Arguing about the narrative that houses the facts. -- A promising strategy for building a common vision for the future by focusing how we frame an honest account of societies past successes and failures.
ID# 7378 -- 7378 -- A Usable Past for a Post-American Nation -- Arguing about the narrative that houses the facts. -- A promising strategy for building a common vision for the future by focusing how we frame an honest account of societies past successes and failures.
ID# 7382 -- 7382 -- Larry Susskind in the Negotiation Journal: Initiating Collaboration in the Midst of a Standoff -- Breakthrough Collaboration is a strategy developed by the Consensus Building Institute to create "ripeness" for negotiation when none exists.
ID# 7382 -- 7382 -- Larry Susskind in the Negotiation Journal: Initiating Collaboration in the Midst of a Standoff -- Breakthrough Collaboration is a strategy developed by the Consensus Building Institute to create "ripeness" for negotiation when none exists.
ID# 7382 -- 7382 -- Larry Susskind in the Negotiation Journal: Initiating Collaboration in the Midst of a Standoff -- Breakthrough Collaboration is a strategy developed by the Consensus Building Institute to create "ripeness" for negotiation when none exists.
ID# 7382 -- 7382 -- Larry Susskind in the Negotiation Journal: Initiating Collaboration in the Midst of a Standoff -- Breakthrough Collaboration is a strategy developed by the Consensus Building Institute to create "ripeness" for negotiation when none exists.
ID# 7382 -- 7382 -- Larry Susskind in the Negotiation Journal: Initiating Collaboration in the Midst of a Standoff -- Breakthrough Collaboration is a strategy developed by the Consensus Building Institute to create "ripeness" for negotiation when none exists.
ID# 7382 -- 7382 -- Larry Susskind in the Negotiation Journal: Initiating Collaboration in the Midst of a Standoff -- Breakthrough Collaboration is a strategy developed by the Consensus Building Institute to create "ripeness" for negotiation when none exists.
ID# 7382 -- 7382 -- Larry Susskind in the Negotiation Journal: Initiating Collaboration in the Midst of a Standoff -- Breakthrough Collaboration is a strategy developed by the Consensus Building Institute to create "ripeness" for negotiation when none exists.
ID# 7382 -- 7382 -- Larry Susskind in the Negotiation Journal: Initiating Collaboration in the Midst of a Standoff -- Breakthrough Collaboration is different from traditional dispute resolution and dialogue in that it can be initiated on just one side and does not need to bring the parties together.
ID# 7383 -- 7383 -- Larry Susskind and Shafik Islam on Complexity -- This paper combines key ideas from complexity theory with key ideas from negotiation theory, and suggests that by putting those two approaches together, better decisions can be made.
ID# 7383 -- 7383 -- Larry Susskind and Shafik Islam on Complexity -- This paper combines key ideas from complexity theory with key ideas from negotiation theory, and suggests that by putting those two approaches together, better decisions can be made.
ID# 7383 -- 7383 -- Larry Susskind and Shafik Islam on Complexity -- This paper combines key ideas from complexity theory with key ideas from negotiation theory, and suggests that by putting those two approaches together, better decisions can be made.
ID# 7383 -- 7383 -- Larry Susskind and Shafik Islam on Complexity -- This paper illustrates how negotiation and consensus building are better tools for decision making in complex situations then are engineered solutions.
ID# 7387 -- 7387 -- Larry Susskind Explains How To Get Highly Distrustful, even Hateful Parties to Work Together -- Those who want to promote dialogue or peace-making among parties who are “at war” are inviting the wrong people to the wrong kind of event in the wrong way. There are clear alternatives that work.
ID# 7387 -- 7387 -- Larry Susskind Explains How To Get Highly Distrustful, even Hateful Parties to Work Together -- Those who want to promote dialogue or peace-making among parties who are “at war” are inviting the wrong people to the wrong kind of event in the wrong way. There are clear alternatives that work.
ID# 7392 -- 7392 -- Making the other side better -- A truly radical idea -- instead of devoting all of your energy to defeating a threatening adversary try acting in ways that lead them to be less threatening and better neighbors and citizens.
ID# 7396 -- 7396 -- Keeping our options open -- Frantic human activity has reduced both cultural and biological diversity. Now we must protect the dwindling alternatives -- A provocative essay on the nature of complex biological and social systems, the importance of diversity, and threats to that diversity.
ID# 7402 -- 7402 -- On the campaign trail, many Republicans talk of violence -- 0
ID# 7422 -- 7422 -- Trump’s America First Speech Revealed a Plan for Power -- 0
ID# 7475 -- 7475 -- Paths to Depolarization -- From Francis Fukuyama an argument that while grassroots activism and electoral reform are important, what the US really needs is a major political realignment.
ID# 7475 -- 7475 -- Paths to Depolarization -- From Francis Fukuyama an argument that while grassroots activism and electoral reform are important, what the US really needs is a major political realignment.
ID# 7475 -- 7475 -- Paths to Depolarization -- From Francis Fukuyama an argument that while grassroots activism and electoral reform are important, what the US really needs is a major political realignment.
ID# 7479 -- 7479 -- See the ads Democrats are funding to boost far-right Republicans -- Yet another example of what happens in politics when the need to defeat the other side becomes more important than building a democracy in which we would all like to live.
ID# 7486 -- 7486 -- Black women who once hated guns are embracing them as violence rises -- 0
ID# 7497 -- 7497 -- What’s New About the New Authoritarianism? -- 0
ID# 7497 -- 7497 -- What’s New About the New Authoritarianism? -- 0
ID# 7503 -- 7503 -- Polarization Past and Present: What’s Changed? What’s Possible? -- Join the Network for Responsible Public Policy on Thurs Aug 25 at 7:30 pm EDT for a discussion of what can be done to bridge todays gaping divides.
ID# 7506 -- 7506 -- Petraeus: Our Lack of Commitment in Afghanistan -- For 9/11, a time to reflect on what we should have learned from the war on terror and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. How can we minimize such tragedies in the future?
ID# 7509 -- 7509 -- Speech isn't violence; it's how we avoid it -- 0
ID# 7523 -- 7523 -- As Right-Wing Rhetoric Escalates, So Do Threats and Violence -- 0
ID# 7536 -- 7536 -- Merit, Fairness, and Equality -- 0
ID# 7549 -- 7549 -- The New Era of Political Violence Is Here -- A look at a possible next step in the escalation of our social and political conflicts --- a step that will start crossing the taboo line that separates violent from nonviolent conflict.
ID# 7549 -- 7549 -- The New Era of Political Violence Is Here -- A look at a possible next step in the escalation of our social and political conflicts --- a step that will start crossing the taboo line that separates violent from nonviolent conflict.
ID# 7549 -- 7549 -- The New Era of Political Violence Is Here -- A look at a possible next step in the escalation of our social and political conflicts --- a step that will start crossing the taboo line that separates violent from nonviolent conflict.
ID# 7555 -- 7555 -- Playing With Fire in Ukraine -- A reminder that, while we've grown accustomed to (and started to tune out) the Ukrainian War, it still threatens to explode into something globally catastrophic.
ID# 7556 -- 7556 -- The Unseen Side of "Cancel Culture" -- An exploration of how the fear of being caught in the middle of the cancel culture outrage storm is preventing us from even thinking about and discussing better ways of working through our problems.
ID# 7558 -- 7558 -- What Biden could gain from pardoning Trump -- An example of the kind of "outside the box" thinking that might help reverse today's dismal political trends. We need to work harder to develop, evaluate, and (where appropriate) implement such ideas.
ID# 7559 -- 7559 -- How Social Justice Became a New Religion -- For a time when we thought that religious wars were thing of the past, a provocative argument that we are dealing with a new kind of conflict – one based on a secular religion.
ID# 7566 -- 7566 -- Whataboutism -- An exploration of one of the most effective strategies for promoting confusion and undermining the sensible analyses of social problems -- "whataboutism."
ID# 7567 -- 7567 -- A Functional Congress? Yes. -- Amid today's political fury, a surprising observation -- the 117th Congress has actually been remarkably functional (often in a bipartisan way).
ID# 7567 -- 7567 -- A Functional Congress? Yes. -- Amid today's political fury, a surprising observation -- the 117th Congress has actually been remarkably functional (often in a bipartisan way).
ID# 7568 -- 7568 -- Still under-policed and over-imprisoned -- An explanation, with important implications for criminal justice reform, of the disconnect between the United States' mass incarceration policies and its inability to fight crime.
ID# 7568 -- 7568 -- Still under-policed and over-imprisoned -- An explanation, with important implications for criminal justice reform, of the disconnect between the United States' mass incarceration policies and its inability to fight crime.
ID# 7574 -- 7574 -- James Baldwin's Radicalism -- An enlightening profile of one of the giants in the struggle against racism, James Baldwin – a man with much to teach us as we continue to struggle with age-old problems.
ID# 7577 -- 7577 -- How China’s Propaganda Influences the West -- A window into the one kind of "bad-faith" actors--geopolitical rivals using high-tech propaganda techniques to advance their interests by altering public perceptions of reality.
ID# 7581 -- 7581 -- We’re About to Find Out What Happens When Privacy Is All but Gone -- A look at the many implications of living in a post-privacy society.
ID# 7587 -- 7587 -- U.S. Public Health Agencies Aren't ‘Following the Science,’ Officials Say -- A description of the many failures of our pandemic response and an explanation of why we need learn how to mobilize our collective expertise in a process of real collaborative problem-solving.
ID# 7595 -- 7595 -- Jay Rothman's Quick Answers to Our Questions -- Jay Rothman's initial answers to our questions (given before he read the articles).
ID# 7596 -- 7596 -- Introducing a Discussion with Bernie Mayer and Jackie Font Guzman about Neutrality and Related Matters -- Introduction to what we hope will become a lengthy discussion about the nature of the challenges facing America and the role conflict resolution experts can and should play in addessing those challenges.
ID# 7596 -- 7596 -- Introducing a Discussion with Bernie Mayer and Jackie Font Guzman about Neutrality and Related Matters -- Introduction to what we hope will become a lengthy discussion about the nature of the challenges facing America and the role conflict resolution experts can and should play in addessing those challenges.
ID# 7596 -- 7596 -- Introducing a Discussion with Bernie Mayer and Jackie Font Guzman about Neutrality and Related Matters -- Introduction to what we hope will become a lengthy discussion about the nature of the challenges facing America and the role conflict resolution experts can and should play in addessing those challenges.
ID# 7596 -- 7596 -- Introducing a Discussion with Bernie Mayer and Jackie Font Guzman about Neutrality and Related Matters -- Is America's core problem hyper-polarization or oppression? Which is the cause and which is the effect? What does this imply about how we address both?
ID# 7597 -- 7597 -- The False Flag of Hyper-Polarization A Response to Guy and Heidi Burgess’ critique of The Neutrality Trap -- An approach that says we should focus on peace and not justice is not only bound to fail, it is dangerous in these times when our democracy is under attack and authoritarianism is on the rise.
ID# 7602 -- 7602 -- Only Bipartisanship Can Defeat Authoritarian Aggression -- A persuasive argument that the only way in which we can protect ourselves from authoritarian threats (both external and internal) is by recommitting ourselves to working together for the common defense.
ID# 7602 -- 7602 -- Only Bipartisanship Can Defeat Authoritarian Aggression -- A persuasive argument that the only way in which we can protect ourselves from authoritarian threats (both external and internal) is by recommitting ourselves to working together for the common defense.
ID# 7610 -- 7610 -- What We Owe The Future -- For societies to flourish over the long run, they must find ways of assuring that the interests of future generations are protected.
ID# 7612 -- 7612 -- The art of listening -- For a world in which we tend to focus on developing our ability to persuade and influence others, a plea, instead, for cultivating our ability to listen to (and be persuaded by) our fellow citizens.
ID# 7618 -- 7618 -- The Kids Are Alright -- Because of the rapid rate of social change, differences in the experiences that shape each generation commonly lead to intergenerational tension. To help address this, a reassuring essay about young people.
ID# 7634 -- 7634 -- What Is School For? -- Perhaps our most deep-rooted instinct is to protect our children. That's why school conflicts are so intense. In this context, set of essays to help us think things through what matters in education.
ID# 7637 -- 7637 -- Joe Biden should do some boring bipartisan commissions -- A persuasive argument for remembering one way in which we can come together, put aside our acrimony, and get about the business of finding mutually beneficial solutions to our common problems.
ID# 7644 -- 7644 -- Don’t Teach Your Kids to Fear the World -- While there are plenty of things to worry about, we must teach the coming generation to see those concerns in the context of the many things that make life wonderful and our problems surmountable.
ID# 7647 -- 7647 -- If an Alternative Candidate Is Needed in 2024, These Folks Will Be Ready -- A strategy for offering voters the choice of moderate, compromise-oriented governance in the event that both US political parties nominate extremist candidates.
ID# 7648 -- 7648 -- Don’t Believe the Generals -- Also, for 9/11 another view on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- one that provides an important counterpoint to the views of the leadership.
ID# 7662 -- 7662 -- America's Pro-Authoritarian Theorists -- 0
ID# 7662 -- 7662 -- America's Pro-Authoritarian Theorists -- 0
ID# 7666 -- 7666 -- Authoritarianism Here? -- 0
ID# 7666 -- 7666 -- Authoritarianism Here? -- 0
ID# 7668 -- 7668 -- Does Biden Really Believe We Are in a Crisis of Democracy -- There is something very wrong with the political system (and a political party) that simultaneously tries to get Trump/MAGA candidates nominated and then demonizes them as a threat to democracy.
ID# 7668 -- 7668 -- Does Biden Really Believe We Are in a Crisis of Democracy -- There is something very wrong with the political system (and a political party) that simultaneously tries to get Trump/MAGA candidates nominated and then demonizes them as a threat to democracy.
ID# 7674 -- 7674 -- The Left Gets Fascism Backward -- We all ought to find time to seriously consider thoughtful views from people who deeply disagree with us. This essay, from the Wall Street Journal, offer such a critique of the left.
ID# 7676 -- 7676 -- Unions are on a roll. And they unite a divided nation. -- A hopeful development that spans the political divide, unions are becoming more effective at protecting the interests of working class citizens.
ID# 7678 -- 7678 -- Why the Left Is Learning to Love the Military -- 0
ID# 7680 -- 7680 -- Why I’ve stopped fearing America is headed for civil war -- A look at the factors that have persuaded one author that the risk of runaway escalation and violence is declining.
ID# 7681 -- 7681 -- Why ‘longtermism’ isn’t ethically sound -- An interesting exploration of the pros and cons of a new philosophical perspective, "long-termism" -- a set of beliefs focused on what we ow posterity.
ID# 7681 -- 7681 -- Why ‘longtermism’ isn’t ethically sound -- An interesting exploration of the pros and cons of a new philosophical perspective, "long-termism" -- a set of beliefs focused on what we ow posterity.
ID# 7688 -- 7688 -- Bolsonaro Isn’t Preparing for a Coup. He’s Preparing for a Revolution. -- From Brazil, a look at how frustration and distrust of major social institutions is being amplified and exploited as part of an authoritarian attempt to take over an entire society.
ID# 7688 -- 7688 -- Bolsonaro Isn’t Preparing for a Coup. He’s Preparing for a Revolution. -- From Brazil, a look at how frustration and distrust of major social institutions is being amplified and exploited as part of an authoritarian attempt to take over an entire society.
ID# 7693 -- 7693 -- Malthusian Theory Has Always Been False -- A hopeful argument that, despite over a century of worrying about "overshoot and collapse," economic productivity continually managed to outstrip population growth.
ID# 7695 -- 7695 -- What This War Correspondent Wants You to Know About America and Fear -- It is almost always helpful to get an outside perspective from someone who is knowledgeable and cares. They can tell us things that, in the heat of a conflict, we can't see for ourselves.
ID# 7697 -- 7697 -- How Social Media Destroys the Things That Matter Most -- Thought-provoking reflections on how social media is undermining the way in which we think, communicate, and structure our social lives.
ID# 7697 -- 7697 -- How Social Media Destroys the Things That Matter Most -- Thought-provoking reflections on how social media is undermining the way in which we think, communicate, and structure our social lives.
ID# 7701 -- 7701 -- A Cautionary Tale for a Polarizing America and the World -- An excerpted version of James Adams's reflection on the similarities between the United States and war-torn and post-war countries abroad where he has served as a peacebuilder.
ID# 7701 -- 7701 -- A Cautionary Tale for a Polarizing America and the World -- Ever-increasing divisions only bring further pain and destruction. Is that what we want for those generations who come after us? For our children?
ID# 7702 -- 7702 -- The Reflexive Mediator -- A summary of Jay Rothman's 2014 Negotiation Journal article in which Jay suggests mediators cannot be neutral, but they can be reflexive and use "disciplined bias" to reach resolution.
ID# 7702 -- 7702 -- The Reflexive Mediator -- A summary of Jay Rothman's 2014 Negotiation Journal article in which Jay suggests mediators cannot be neutral, but they can be reflexive and use "disciplined bias" to reach resolution.
ID# 7702 -- 7702 -- The Reflexive Mediator -- A summary of Jay Rothman's 2014 Negotiation Journal article in which Jay suggests mediators cannot be neutral, but they can be reflexive and use "disciplined bias" to reach resolution.
ID# 7702 -- 7702 -- The Reflexive Mediator -- A summary of Jay Rothman's 2014 Negotiation Journal article in which Jay suggests mediators cannot be neutral, but they can be reflexive and use "disciplined bias" to reach resolution.
ID# 7702 -- 7702 -- The Reflexive Mediator -- Through reflexive mediation, the parties can gain a more nuanced view of the conflict and a better understanding of the other party’s needs, values, and identities, which can help reach a resolution.
ID# 7705 -- 7705 -- Generation Swipe -- Reason to believe that we have yet to figure out the set of cultural norms regarding sex, gender, relationships, and family that will reliably lead to rewarding and happy lives.
ID# 7708 -- 7708 -- What Is National Conservatism? The movement could be the future of the American right -- A look at the way conservative beliefs are evolving in response to the progressive left's ambitious agenda for social change.
ID# 7712 -- 7712 -- What Conflicted Americans Fear Most From an Abortion Ban -- The first of the three part series exploring the critically important moral choices that the Pro-Life Movement will have to make in the wake of the Dobbs decision.
ID# 7713 -- 7713 -- China Is Running Covert Operations That Could Seriously Overwhelm Us -- Further insight into the many ways in which China's aggressive, "gray zone" warfare campaign is attacking the fabric of Western society. Our future depends on mounting an effective defense.
ID# 7714 -- 7714 -- Putin Will Make People Choose Between Heating or Eating This Winter -- Thoughts on the coming winter and the terrible choice that the Ukrainian war is going to force on Europeans.
ID# 7717 -- 7717 -- Talking Sense about "the Next American Civil War" -- Richard Rubenstein argues that the biggest conflict in the U.S. is not between the right an the left, but between the plutocrats and everyone else.
ID# 7718 -- 7718 -- Greg Bourne: What Do the Times Require? -- A short, compelling statement of why we all need to operate from a place of love and respect for one another instead of hate.
ID# 7718 -- 7718 -- Greg Bourne: What Do the Times Require? -- A short, compelling statement of why we all need to operate from a place of love and respect for one another instead of hate.
ID# 7718 -- 7718 -- Greg Bourne: What Do the Times Require? -- A short, compelling statement of why we all need to operate from a place of love and respect for one another instead of hate.
ID# 7718 -- 7718 -- Greg Bourne: What Do the Times Require? -- A short, compelling statement of why we all need to operate from a place of love and respect for one another instead of hate.
ID# 7718 -- 7718 -- Greg Bourne: What Do the Times Require? -- We’ve seen up close the results of hate, discord and violence. We must choose the better path – and the first step begins with each of us making that choice.
ID# 7719 -- 7719 -- Not a False Flag, a More Effective Strategy for Fighting Oppression: the Burgesses Respond to Jackie Font-Guzmán and Bernie Mayer -- The conversation between Jackie, Bernie, and the Burgesses is a good example of the blind man and the elephant parable. We all need to look at the whole elephant!
ID# 7720 -- 7720 -- Peter Adler: Defiance at Duck Springs -- Excerpts from Peter Adler's debut novel about the coming U.S. civil war. It seems eerily familiar.
ID# 7720 -- 7720 -- Peter Adler: Defiance at Duck Springs -- The world is made of stories, and good stories accumulate into larger narratives and make the world’s history what it is, and what it could be. Here's a story we should learn from before it becomes true.
ID# 7721 -- 7721 -- Organizing for collective impact: The making of a mass pro-democracy movement -- Provocative thoughts on a critically important (and often neglected) question, how can the many groups working to support and strengthen democracy integrate their efforts into an effective social movement?
ID# 7721 -- 7721 -- Organizing for collective impact: The making of a mass pro-democracy movement -- Provocative thoughts on a critically important (and often neglected) question, how can the many groups working to support and strengthen democracy integrate their efforts into an effective social movement?
ID# 7722 -- 7722 -- Organizing for collective impact: Transforming American democracy together -- A second essay on ways in which a mass movement for strengthening democracy might be established.
ID# 7722 -- 7722 -- Organizing for collective impact: Transforming American democracy together -- A second essay on ways in which a mass movement for strengthening democracy might be established.
ID# 7723 -- 7723 -- What is the Backfire Effect? -- From Omni-Win, an exploration of the "backfire effect," a cognitive bias that leads us to misinterpret information that challenges our beliefs as, instead, reinforcing those beliefs.
ID# 7723 -- 7723 -- What is the Backfire Effect? -- From Omni-Win, an exploration of the "backfire effect," a cognitive bias that leads us to misinterpret information that challenges our beliefs as, instead, reinforcing those beliefs.
ID# 7724 -- 7724 -- Citizen Connect Participation Guide to the 2022 Midterm Elections -- Amid the flood of deceptive efforts to influence our votes in the upcoming US election, a project focused on helping people fulfill their civic obligations through informed voting.
ID# 7725 -- 7725 -- Failing Productivity and Systems Change: Key Mindsets and Practices -- As we struggle with today's many problems, we are going to have to take on deeper systemic challenges. This will require us to learn how to embrace failure as an inevitable part of the work of shifting complex systems.
ID# 7725 -- 7725 -- Failing Productivity and Systems Change: Key Mindsets and Practices -- As we struggle with today's many problems, we are going to have to take on deeper systemic challenges. This will require us to learn how to embrace failure as an inevitable part of the work of shifting complex systems.
ID# 7726 -- 7726 -- While Alaska votes, ranked-choice voting is gaining steam -- From the president of FairVote, a report on efforts to help defuse hyper-polarization and promote collaborative democracy by encouraging the switch to Ranked Choice Voting (RCV).
ID# 7726 -- 7726 -- While Alaska votes, ranked-choice voting is gaining steam -- From the president of FairVote, a report on efforts to help defuse hyper-polarization and promote collaborative democracy by encouraging the switch to Ranked Choice Voting (RCV).
ID# 7727 -- 7727 -- The Counterweight Conference on Liberal Approaches to Diversity and Inclusion -- An announcement of an upcoming online conference that tries to do more than criticize existing diversity equity and inclusion programs, it tries to offer a less divisive and more unifying alternative.
ID# 7728 -- 7728 -- How Can We Reduce Hyper-Polarization? Join BI's Discussion to Share Your Ideas and Learn Others! -- A joint BI/CRQ call for those with conflict resolution and peacebuilding expertise to pool their insights and think about how we could help democracies better live up to their ideals.
ID# 7728 -- 7728 -- How Can We Reduce Hyper-Polarization? Join BI's Discussion to Share Your Ideas and Learn Others! -- A welcome to Beyond Intractability's new Substack newsletter and an introduction and invitation to participate in our online discussion of strategies for limiting hyper-polarization.
ID# 7729 -- 7729 -- Strategies for Revitalizing Democracy in the Post 9/11 Era -- In the years since 9/11 a formidable new threat has emerged to challenge the world's democracies – hyper-polarization. This newsletter looks at ways in which the conflict resolution field can help.
ID# 7729 -- 7729 -- Strategies for Revitalizing Democracy in the Post 9/11 Era -- Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Connie Ozawa, and Barney Jordaan offer their their thoughts on what the conflict resolution field can do to help limit the hyper-polarization that is plaguing so many societies.
ID# 7730 -- 7730 -- Hyper-Polarization Challenges: Scale, Complexity, and Collaboration -- Chip Hauss, Larry Susskind, and Shafik Islam offer their thoughts on how to collaborate despite the scale, complexity, and hyper-polarized nature of modern society.
ID# 7730 -- 7730 -- Hyper-Polarization Challenges: Scale, Complexity, and Collaboration -- Three contributions to the hyper-polarization discussion that explore ways of working together despite the divisive social climate.
ID# 7730 -- 7730 -- Hyper-Polarization Challenges: Scale, Complexity, and Collaboration -- Chip Hauss, Larry Susskind, and Shafik Islam offer their thoughts on how to collaborate despite the scale, complexity, and hyper-polarized nature of modern society.
ID# 7731 -- 7731 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 1 -- The first in a series of articles exploring the tension that exists between the pursuit of "social justice" and the need to diffuse hyper-polarization and the resulting hatred and social dysfunction.
ID# 7731 -- 7731 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 1 -- The first in a series of articles exploring the tension that exists between the pursuit of "social justice" and the need to diffuse hyper-polarization and the resulting hatred and social dysfunction.
ID# 7731 -- 7731 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 1 -- The first in a series of articles exploring the tension that exists between the pursuit of "social justice" and the need to diffuse hyper-polarization and the resulting hatred and social dysfunction.
ID# 7731 -- 7731 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 1 -- Do efforts to limit hyper-polarization undermine efforts to challenge oppression or does allowing hyper-polarization to flourish fuel the hatred that makes oppression possible?
ID# 7731 -- 7731 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 1 -- The first in a series of articles exploring the tension that exists between the pursuit of "social justice" and the need to diffuse hyper-polarization and the resulting hatred and social dysfunction.
ID# 7732 -- 7732 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 2 -- Bernie Mayer and Jackie Font-Guzmán offer a critique of our focus on hyper-polarization based on their book, The Neutrality Trap.
ID# 7732 -- 7732 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 2 -- Bernie Mayer and Jackie Font-Guzmán offer a critique of our focus on hyper-polarization based on their book, The Neutrality Trap.
ID# 7732 -- 7732 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 2 -- Bernie Mayer and Jackie Font-Guzmán offer a critique of our focus on hyper-polarization based on their book, The Neutrality Trap.
ID# 7732 -- 7732 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 2 -- Bernie Mayer and Jackie Font-Guzmán offer a critique of our focus on hyper-polarization based on their book, The Neutrality Trap.
ID# 7732 -- 7732 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 2 -- Bernie Mayer and Jackie Font-Guzmán offer a critique of our focus on hyper-polarization based on their book, The Neutrality Trap.
ID# 7733 -- 7733 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 3 -- Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess defend BI's focus on reversing the hyper-polarization spiral from the argument that this would reinforce systems of oppression (see previous BI newsletter).
ID# 7733 -- 7733 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 3 -- Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess defend BI's focus on reversing the hyper-polarization spiral from the argument that this would reinforce systems of oppression (see previous BI newsletter).
ID# 7733 -- 7733 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 3 -- Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess defend BI's focus on reversing the hyper-polarization spiral from the argument that this would reinforce systems of oppression (see previous BI newsletter).
ID# 7733 -- 7733 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 3 -- Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess defend BI's focus on reversing the hyper-polarization spiral from the argument that this would reinforce systems of oppression (see previous BI newsletter).
ID# 7733 -- 7733 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Part 3 -- Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess defend BI's focus on reversing the hyper-polarization spiral from the argument that this would reinforce systems of oppression (see previous BI newsletter).
ID# 7734 -- 7734 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Additional Perspectives -- More insight into the complex relationship between social justice advocacy and peacebuilding from Larry Susskind, Louis Kriesberg, Jay Rothman, Ken Cloke, Greg Bourne, Lisa Schirch, and Martin Carcasson.
ID# 7734 -- 7734 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Additional Perspectives -- More insight into the complex relationship between social justice advocacy and peacebuilding from Larry Susskind, Louis Kriesberg, Jay Rothman, Ken Cloke, Greg Bourne, Lisa Schirch, and Martin Carcasson.
ID# 7734 -- 7734 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Additional Perspectives -- More insight into the complex relationship between social justice advocacy and peacebuilding from Larry Susskind, Louis Kriesberg, Jay Rothman, Ken Cloke, Greg Bourne, Lisa Schirch, and Martin Carcasson.
ID# 7734 -- 7734 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Additional Perspectives -- More insight into the complex relationship between social justice advocacy and peacebuilding from Larry Susskind, Louis Kriesberg, Jay Rothman, Ken Cloke, Greg Bourne, Lisa Schirch, and Martin Carcasson.
ID# 7734 -- 7734 -- On Oppression, Justice, Advocacy, Neutrality, and Peacebuilding -- Additional Perspectives -- More insight into the complex relationship between social justice advocacy and peacebuilding from Larry Susskind, Louis Kriesberg, Jay Rothman, Ken Cloke, Greg Bourne, Lisa Schirch, and Martin Carcasson.
ID# 7735 -- 7735 -- The Crane Brinton Effect — Why Revolutions Fail -- Amid calls for a political revolution to fight systemic oppression, a critical look at why revolutions fail with contributions from the Burgesses, Peter Adler, James Adams, William Donohue, and Mark Hamilton.
ID# 7735 -- 7735 -- The Crane Brinton Effect — Why Revolutions Fail -- Amid calls for a political revolution to fight systemic oppression, a critical look at why revolutions fail with contributions from the Burgesses, Peter Adler, James Adams, William Donohue, and Mark Hamilton.
ID# 7735 -- 7735 -- The Crane Brinton Effect — Why Revolutions Fail -- Amid calls for a political revolution to fight systemic oppression, a critical look at why revolutions fail with contributions from the Burgesses, Peter Adler, James Adams, William Donohue, and Mark Hamilton.
ID# 7736 -- 7736 -- Developing a Vision for a Society in Which We Would All Like to Live -- With this newsletter, we start imagining a less polarized future with lessons from South Africa from Ebrahim Rasool as well as observations from Neal Kohatsu, Ken Cloke, and Duncan Autrey.
ID# 7736 -- 7736 -- Developing a Vision for a Society in Which We Would All Like to Live -- With this newsletter, we start imagining a less polarized future with lessons from South Africa from Ebrahim Rasool as well as observations from Neal Kohatsu, Ken Cloke, and Duncan Autrey.
ID# 7736 -- 7736 -- Developing a Vision for a Society in Which We Would All Like to Live -- With this newsletter, we start imagining a less polarized future with lessons from South Africa from Ebrahim Rasool as well as observations from Neal Kohatsu, Ken Cloke, and Duncan Autrey.
ID# 7736 -- 7736 -- Developing a Vision for a Society in Which We Would All Like to Live -- With this newsletter, we start imagining a less polarized future with lessons from South Africa from Ebrahim Rasool as well as observations from Neal Kohatsu, Ken Cloke, and Duncan Autrey.
ID# 7737 -- 7737 -- If You Don't Know Where You Are Going, it Is Going to Be Hard to Get There -- More on envisioning a society in which we all want to live: an elicitive approach suggests that Western democracies should try to visualize ways to improve those democracies, not replace them.
ID# 7737 -- 7737 -- If You Don't Know Where You Are Going, it Is Going to Be Hard to Get There -- Since the left and the right both fear threats to "our democracy," that gives us hope that rediscovering and recommitting to democratic ideals might offer a way out of our current predicament.
ID# 7737 -- 7737 -- If You Don't Know Where You Are Going, it Is Going to Be Hard to Get There -- More on envisioning a society in which we all want to live: an elicitive approach suggests that Western democracies should try to visualize ways to improve those democracies, not replace them.
ID# 7738 -- 7738 -- How Do We Get What We Want and Need? Through Polarization or Bridge-building, Reframing, and "Omni-Win" Approaches? -- Julia Roig, Lisa Schirch, Colin Rule and Duncan Autrey examine the meaning of, and the benefits and costs of polarization, and what could be done to limit the costs and improve our democracy.
ID# 7738 -- 7738 -- How Do We Get What We Want and Need? Through Polarization or Bridge-building, Reframing, and "Omni-Win" Approaches? -- This newsletter focuses on the several contributions to the BI/CRQ Hyper-Polarization Discussion that we have not yet had space to include in the newsletter.
ID# 7739 -- 7739 -- Fighting Hyper-Polarization for Our Children and Grand Children -- This newsletter looks at the "QED Trap" and how it locks people into a win-lose struggle for power that eliminates any chance of learning, compromise, or collaboration.
ID# 7739 -- 7739 -- Fighting Hyper-Polarization for Our Children and Grand Children -- This newsletter focuses on the importance of continuing our efforts to strengthen democracy, and considers one obstacle to doing that: being too sure of our selves.
ID# 7740 -- 7740 -- The 2022 Election – Did It Make Hyper-Polarization Better or Worse -- This newsletter looks at what the 2020 election did for hyper-polarization and begins to discuss potential conflict resolution responses, along with usual colleague activity and context posts.
ID# 7740 -- 7740 -- The 2022 Election – Did It Make Hyper-Polarization Better or Worse -- This newsletter looks at what the 2020 election did for hyper-polarization and begins to discuss potential conflict resolution responses, along with usual colleague activity and context posts.
ID# 7741 -- 7741 -- Essential Elements of Successful Democracies - Part 1 -- This newsletter begins to consider what democracies need to do to be successful, along with some ways they can start doing that.
ID# 7741 -- 7741 -- Essential Elements of Successful Democracies - Part 1 -- This newsletter begins to consider what democracies need to do to be successful, along with some ways they can start doing that.
ID# 7742 -- 7742 -- Essential Elements of Successful Democracies - Part 2 -- Here we continue the discussion of 7 essential elements of essential democracies, add blog posts on calling in, not out, and not being too sure of oneself. A discussion of complex adaptive systems is also included.
ID# 7742 -- 7742 -- Essential Elements of Successful Democracies - Part 2 -- Here we continue the discussion of 7 essential elements of essential democracies, add blog posts on calling in, not out, and not being too sure of oneself. A discussion of complex adaptive systems is also included.
ID# 7743 -- 7743 -- Obstacles to Implementing the Elements of Successful Democracy -- A discussion of five obstacles to implementing the elements of successful democracy, two examples from the blog of what's going wrong, and Colleague and Context posts.
ID# 7743 -- 7743 -- Obstacles to Implementing the Elements of Successful Democracy -- A discussion of five obstacles to implementing the elements of successful democracy, two examples from the blog of what's going wrong, and Colleague and Context posts.
ID# 7744 -- 7744 -- Essential Elements + Obstacles = The Things That Need Doing Matrix -- An introduction to a matrix of "things that need doing" to fix democracy, together with a blog post on an "inter-movement" designed to help do those things and two more posts on the nature of polarization.
ID# 7744 -- 7744 -- Essential Elements + Obstacles = The Things That Need Doing Matrix -- An introduction to a matrix of "things that need doing" to fix democracy, together with a blog post on an "inter-movement" designed to help do those things and two more posts on the nature of polarization.
ID# 7744 -- 7744 -- Essential Elements + Obstacles = The Things That Need Doing Matrix -- An introduction to a matrix of "things that need doing" to fix democracy, together with a blog post on an "inter-movement" designed to help do those things and two more posts on the nature of polarization.
ID# 7745 -- 7745 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding/Problem Solving -- The first of our new shorter format newsletters we finish up our paper on massively parallel peacebuilding and introduce what comes next.
ID# 7745 -- 7745 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding/Problem Solving -- A discussion of how Massively Parallel Peacebuilding can enable us to do the things called for in the Limiting Hyper-Polarization Matrix, plus a review of Kriesberg's new book and a look at the relationship between advocacy and intermediary roles.
ID# 7746 -- 7746 -- Addressing the Skeptics And Moving Forward -- The first of our new shorter format newsletters we finish up our paper on massively parallel peacebuilding and introduce what comes next.
ID# 7746 -- 7746 -- Addressing the Skeptics And Moving Forward -- The first of our new shorter format newsletters we finish up our paper on massively parallel peacebuilding and introduce what comes next.
ID# 7747 -- 7747 -- From the Hyper-Polarization Discussion: Anne Leslie: Embracing Ambiguity -- A summary of an excellent talk IBM security expert gave to a conflict resolution audience on dealing with complexity and uncertainty.
ID# 7747 -- 7747 -- From the Hyper-Polarization Discussion: Anne Leslie: Embracing Ambiguity -- A summary of an excellent talk IBM security expert gave to a conflict resolution audience on dealing with complexity and uncertainty.
ID# 7747 -- 7747 -- From the Hyper-Polarization Discussion: Anne Leslie: Embracing Ambiguity -- A summary of an excellent talk IBM security expert gave to a conflict resolution audience on dealing with complexity and uncertainty.
ID# 7749 -- 7749 -- From the Discussion: Kristin Hansen and the Civic Health Project's Work on De-polarization in America -- The Civic Health Project's Kristin Hansen on why polarization matters, and what we can do to reduce it.
ID# 7749 -- 7749 -- From the Discussion: Kristin Hansen and the Civic Health Project's Work on De-polarization in America -- The Civic Health Project's Kristin Hansen on why polarization matters, and what we can do to reduce it.
ID# 7750 -- 7750 -- The Google Maps and Adopt-a-Highway Approach to Systems -- A look at two metaphors that make it easier to see how we can limit destructive hyper-polarization by combining big picture thinking with individual commitments to help fill gaps in society's broader efforts to address the problem.
ID# 7750 -- 7750 -- The Google Maps and Adopt-a-Highway Approach to Systems -- A look at two metaphors that make it easier to see how we can limit destructive hyper-polarization by combining big picture thinking with individual commitments to help fill gaps in society's broader efforts to address the problem.
ID# 7750 -- 7750 -- The Google Maps and Adopt-a-Highway Approach to Systems -- A look at two metaphors that make it easier to see how we can limit destructive hyper-polarization by combining big picture thinking with individual commitments to help fill gaps in society's broader efforts to address the problem.
ID# 7753 -- 7753 -- Hyper-Polarization Challenges: Scale, Complexity, and Collaboration -- Chip Hauss, Larry Susskind, and Shafik Islam offer their thoughts on how to collaborate despite the scale, complexity, and hyper-polarized nature of modern society.
ID# 7762 -- 7762 -- Fighting Hyper-Polarization for Our Children and Grand Children -- This newsletter focuses on the importance of continuing our efforts to strengthen democracy, and considers one obstacle to doing that: being too sure of our selves.
ID# 7763 -- 7763 -- The 2022 Election – Did It Make Hyper-Polarization Better or Worse -- While the worst anti-democratic outcomes may have been averted, this election was still not good for hyper-polarization, and perhaps not good for democracy either.
ID# 7764 -- 7764 -- Essential Elements of Successful Democracies - Part 1 -- Successful democracies control destructive escalation, promote respectful communication, use verified facts for decision making, and balance power among constituency groups fairly.
ID# 7765 -- 7765 -- Essential Elements of Successful Democracies - Part 2 -- Boulding's First Law is "If it exists, it must be possible." All of the essential elements of democracy exist--though sometimes in other contexts. We need to implement them in our governance systems.
ID# 7766 -- 7766 -- Obstacles to Implementing the Elements of Successful Democracy -- Fixing democracy is everyone's responsibility: we can't leave it to our leaders or the other side. Everyone can -- and must -- do their part.
ID# 7767 -- 7767 -- Essential Elements + Obstacles = The Things That Need Doing Matrix -- A newsletter that offers a framework for thinking about all of the things that need to be done to combat hyper-polarization and build a democracy that lives up to its ideals.
ID# 7768 -- 7768 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding/Problem Solving -- Defusing the hyper-polarization spiral is an extremely large and complex task. This newsletter introduces a promising strategy for working at this level.
ID# 7769 -- 7769 -- Addressing the Skeptics And Moving Forward -- With this issue, we are switching to a shorter and more frequent newsletter format and an increasing focus on projects that are, in various ways, actually using a massively parallel approach to help limit hyper-polarization.
ID# 7770 -- 7770 -- From the Hyper-Polarization Discussion: Anne Leslie: Embracing Ambiguity -- Great advice on how to deal with today's complex challenges. Work on getting clarity on what you believe. Look at what you can control. And then align your behaviors and decisions in ways that make sense to you individually and collectively.
ID# 7771 -- 7771 -- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 15 -- Rather than continuing to post individual links on social media, I have decided to start posting a larger collection of such links each week in the Beyond Intractability Substack Newsletter.
ID# 7772 -- 7772 -- From the Discussion: Kristin Hansen and the Civic Health Project's Work on De-polarization in America -- The Civic Health Project's Kristin Hansen on why looking at both the "demand" and the "supply" side of hate and polarization helps us address the problem.
ID# 7773 -- 7773 -- The Google Maps and Adopt-a-Highway Approach to Systems -- A look at two metaphors that make it easier to see how we can limit destructive hyper-polarization by combining big picture thinking with individual commitments to help fill gaps in society's broader efforts to address the problem.
ID# 7774 -- 7774 -- Consensus Building Institute Resources -- Another "if it being done it must be possible" story -- an extensive collection of resources explaining how people are successfully collaborating despite deep differences.
ID# 7774 -- 7774 -- Consensus Building Institute Resources -- Another "if it being done it must be possible" story -- an extensive collection of resources explaining how people are successfully collaborating despite deep differences.
ID# 7774 -- 7774 -- Consensus Building Institute Resources -- Another "if it being done it must be possible" story -- an extensive collection of resources explaining how people are successfully collaborating despite deep differences.
ID# 7779 -- 7779 -- Summary of Lisa Schirch: Transforming the Colour of US Peacebuilding: Types of Dialogue to Protect and Advance Multi-racial Democracy -- A summary of an article focused on how peacebuilding dialogue and the movement for social justice should be complementary, not at odds with each other.
ID# 7779 -- 7779 -- Summary of Lisa Schirch: Transforming the Colour of US Peacebuilding: Types of Dialogue to Protect and Advance Multi-racial Democracy -- A summary of an article focused on how peacebuilding dialogue and the movement for social justice should be complementary, not at odds with each other.
ID# 7779 -- 7779 -- Summary of Lisa Schirch: Transforming the Colour of US Peacebuilding: Types of Dialogue to Protect and Advance Multi-racial Democracy -- A summary of an article focused on how peacebuilding dialogue and the movement for social justice should be complementary, not at odds with each other.
ID# 7783 -- 7783 -- Reaching out Within and Beyond the Classroom -- The Presdient of the Institute for Global Negotiation shares his thoughts on how the education system writ large can help entire societies learn and use better conflict resolution techniques.
ID# 7783 -- 7783 -- Reaching out Within and Beyond the Classroom -- The Presdient of the Institute for Global Negotiation shares his thoughts on how the education system writ large can help entire societies learn and use better conflict resolution techniques.
ID# 7783 -- 7783 -- Reaching out Within and Beyond the Classroom -- There is an appetite to reimagine our discourse away from simply polarised positioning and we have the tools to achieve this. We just have to get to work.
ID# 7784 -- 7784 -- Neal Kohatsu: For Less Divisiveness, We Need More Humility -- He suggests we follow Adam Grant's "rethinking cycle" -- a progression through humility, doubt, curiosity, and discovering, circling back to humility.
ID# 7785 -- 7785 -- Ken Cloke: Mediation in a Time of Crisis -- The introduction to Ken Cloke's latest book focused on the many concurrent crises facing the United States and the world. It demonstrates compellingly how our only way out is through collaboration.
ID# 7785 -- 7785 -- Ken Cloke: Mediation in a Time of Crisis -- The introduction to Ken Cloke's latest book focused on the many concurrent crises facing the United States and the world. It demonstrates compellingly how our only way out is through collaboration.
ID# 7785 -- 7785 -- Ken Cloke: Mediation in a Time of Crisis -- The old ways are failing and new ones are needed. The stakes are high and getting higher, and mediation has proven successful in countless conflicts over similar issues in all cultures and communities.
ID# 7786 -- 7786 -- Lisa Schirch: Transforming the Colour of US Peacebuilding: Types of Dialogue to Protect and Advance Multi-racial Democracy -- Bridgebuilding dialogue requires participants to sit with the discomfort of hearing painful experiences, an honest power analysis and truth telling that may be perceived as “uncivil” and “partial.”
ID# 7786 -- 7786 -- Lisa Schirch: Transforming the Colour of US Peacebuilding: Types of Dialogue to Protect and Advance Multi-racial Democracy -- Bridgebuilding dialogue requires participants to sit with the discomfort of hearing painful experiences, an honest power analysis and truth telling that may be perceived as “uncivil” and “partial.”
ID# 7787 -- 7787 -- Neutrality, Omni-Partiality, and the Evolution of Political Conflict -- Chapter 7 from Ken Cloke's new book, explaining how mediators should be "omni-partial," not neutral.
ID# 7787 -- 7787 -- Neutrality, Omni-Partiality, and the Evolution of Political Conflict -- Chapter 7 from Ken Cloke's new book, explaining how mediators should be "omni-partial," not neutral.
ID# 7787 -- 7787 -- Neutrality, Omni-Partiality, and the Evolution of Political Conflict -- We must overcome the adversarial forces that separate “us” from “them;” and realize that there is no “them,” there is only us. Only then we can face our conflicts and crises together.
ID# 7788 -- 7788 -- Summary of "The Case for Principled Impartiality in a Hyper-Partisan World" -- A summary of an article published in the National Civic Review which explains that impartiality still makes sense, and is increasinly needed in our fraught hyper-polarized communication environment.
ID# 7788 -- 7788 -- Summary of "The Case for Principled Impartiality in a Hyper-Partisan World" -- To abandon impartiality completely and simply join the fray as partisans will likely only further erode our political culture and exacerbate the problems of polarization, distrust, and misinformation.
ID# 7789 -- 7789 -- Summary of "A Framework for Understanding Polarizing Language" -- A summary of a scholarly article on the nature and dangers of polarizing language, illustrating parallels, for example, between January 6 and Rwanda, in terms of language.
ID# 7789 -- 7789 -- Summary of "A Framework for Understanding Polarizing Language" -- A summary of a scholarly article on the nature and dangers of polarizing language, illustrating parallels, for example, between January 6 and Rwanda, in terms of language.
ID# 7789 -- 7789 -- Summary of "A Framework for Understanding Polarizing Language" -- Polarizing language demonstrates features that are readily identifiable. Can such warnings can be heard and action taken to enable people to shift from violence to problem solving before it's too late?
ID# 7790 -- 7790 -- Duncan Autrey: We All Win, or We All Lose -- We all have different notions of how to fix our troubled nations. If we fight about that, we all lose. But if we pool our knowledge and work together, we can create a better world for everyone.
ID# 7790 -- 7790 -- Duncan Autrey: We All Win, or We All Lose -- Team humanity. That's us. Now, let's get out there and start building a world we can all be proud of. Let's win together.
ID# 7791 -- 7791 -- 0 -- 0
ID# 7792 -- 7792 -- Kevin Clements et al: The Toda Peace Institute's Conversations on the Subversion of Democracies in the 21st Century -- A summary of five short videos discussing democratic backsliding with Kevin Clements, Paula Green, Stephan Haggard and Bob Kaufman.
ID# 7792 -- 7792 -- Kevin Clements et al: The Toda Peace Institute's Conversations on the Subversion of Democracies in the 21st Century -- Democracy is backsliding around the world, driven by polarization, attacks on democratic fundamentals by duly-elected "democratic" leaders, and clandestine, insidious incremental changes.
ID# 7793 -- 7793 -- 0 -- 0
ID# 7795 -- 7795 -- Colin Rule: Positive Reframing in Political Conversations: Avoiding the Race to the Bottom -- A call for positive reframing in political conversations — demonstrating that you have really heard the core contentions of the other side, and that you are willing to engage with the strongest part of their argument.
ID# 7795 -- 7795 -- Colin Rule: Positive Reframing in Political Conversations: Avoiding the Race to the Bottom -- A call for positive reframing in political conversations — demonstrating that you have really heard the core contentions of the other side, and that you are willing to engage with the strongest part of their argument.
ID# 7795 -- 7795 -- Colin Rule: Positive Reframing in Political Conversations: Avoiding the Race to the Bottom -- What outcome do we want to achieve? When we lash out in anger, do these behaviors help or hinder our efforts to achieve that outcome? Are they making the problem worse?
ID# 7796 -- 7796 -- Julia Roig: Rethinking 'Polarization' as the Problem -- Julia Roig's thoughts on polarization, justice, democracy, conflict, and authoritarianism distinguishing between "good polarization" and "toxic polarization."
ID# 7796 -- 7796 -- Julia Roig: Rethinking 'Polarization' as the Problem -- Polarization is good when it pushes us to change. It is toxic when it causes us to dehumanize and push away "the other." We need to sit with our conflict, explore it, and move through it together.
ID# 7799 -- 7799 -- Guy Burgess: The QED Trap -- A description of a social-psychologiical trap in which people become absolutely convinced that their views are 100% right and their opponents are 100% wrong.
ID# 7799 -- 7799 -- Guy Burgess: The QED Trap -- A description of a social-psychologiical trap in which people become absolutely convinced that their views are 100% right and their opponents are 100% wrong.
ID# 7799 -- 7799 -- Guy Burgess: The QED Trap -- This trap locks people into a win-lose struggle for power that eliminates any chance of learning, compromise, or collaboration.
ID# 7801 -- 7801 -- Executive Summary: Applying Conflict Resolution Insights to Today's Hyper-Polarized Societies -- 0
ID# 7801 -- 7801 -- Executive Summary: Applying Conflict Resolution Insights to Today's Hyper-Polarized Societies -- 0
ID# 7801 -- 7801 -- Executive Summary: Applying Conflict Resolution Insights to Today's Hyper-Polarized Societies -- 0
ID# 7804 -- 7804 -- Rule Omega -- Daniel Schmactenberger and Jordan Greenhall talk about listening for the "meaningful signal" hidden within the "noise" of any statement.
ID# 7804 -- 7804 -- Rule Omega -- Daniel Schmactenberger and Jordan Greenhall talk about listening for the "meaningful signal" hidden within the "noise" of any statement.
ID# 7805 -- 7805 -- Democracy and the Epistemic Commons -- The ultimate responsibility for good governance in a democracy falls to the voting citizenry, which can only exercise this duty well when it has accurate information about the world.
ID# 7805 -- 7805 -- Democracy and the Epistemic Commons -- The ultimate responsibility for good governance in a democracy falls to the voting citizenry, which can only exercise this duty well when it has accurate information about the world.
ID# 7806 -- 7806 -- Humanity's Phase Shift', Daniel Schmachtenberger -- A video discussing why modern day governance isn't working, and what every individual must do within themselves to enable us as a community and society, to work out our problems together.
ID# 7806 -- 7806 -- Humanity's Phase Shift', Daniel Schmachtenberger -- A video discussing why modern day governance isn't working, and what every individual must do within themselves to enable us as a community and society, to work out our problems together.
ID# 7807 -- 7807 -- The Consilience Project -- A project exploring how our social systems and institutions need to be redesigned if free, open, non-authoritarian societies are to survive.
ID# 7807 -- 7807 -- The Consilience Project -- A project exploring how our social systems and institutions need to be redesigned if free, open, non-authoritarian societies are to survive.
ID# 7808 -- 7808 -- Star Voting -- An alternative to traditional winner-take-all and ranked choice voting to give voting more meaning and to discourage extremism.
ID# 7808 -- 7808 -- Star Voting -- An alternative to traditional winner-take-all and ranked choice voting to give voting more meaning and to discourage extremism.
ID# 7809 -- 7809 -- Applying Regenerative Practice to Systems Beyond Place -- Some Thoughts -- Applying the prinicples of living (biological) systems to social systems to help address threats and redesign those systems to thrive.
ID# 7809 -- 7809 -- Applying Regenerative Practice to Systems Beyond Place -- Some Thoughts -- Applying the prinicples of living (biological) systems to social systems to help address threats and redesign those systems to thrive.
ID# 7810 -- 7810 -- Keystone Habits for a Collaborative Learning Culture -- “Keystone habits” have the power to start a chain reaction, changing other habits as they move through an organization or system. They can jump start collaboration.
ID# 7810 -- 7810 -- Keystone Habits for a Collaborative Learning Culture -- “Keystone habits” have the power to start a chain reaction, changing other habits as they move through an organization or system. They can jump start collaboration.
ID# 7814 -- 7814 -- Veterans for Political Action -- A nonprofit with a mission to mobilize veterans and supporters to advocate for election innovations to make our political system less toxic and more competitive.
ID# 7814 -- 7814 -- Veterans for Political Action -- A nonprofit with a mission to mobilize veterans and supporters to advocate for election innovations to make our political system less toxic and more competitive.
ID# 7814 -- 7814 -- Veterans for Political Action -- A nonprofit with a mission to mobilize veterans and supporters to advocate for election innovations to make our political system less toxic and more competitive.
ID# 7814 -- 7814 -- Veterans for Political Action -- A nonprofit with a mission to mobilize veterans and supporters to advocate for election innovations to make our political system less toxic and more competitive.
ID# 7815 -- 7815 -- Unite America -- Working to improve our elections to elect leaders who will really represent us.
ID# 7815 -- 7815 -- Unite America -- Working to improve our elections to elect leaders who will really represent us.
ID# 7816 -- 7816 -- Failing Productively in Systems Change: Key Mindsets and Practices -- How do we embrace failure as an inevitable part of the work of shifting complex systems?
ID# 7816 -- 7816 -- Failing Productively in Systems Change: Key Mindsets and Practices -- How do we embrace failure as an inevitable part of the work of shifting complex systems?
ID# 7818 -- 7818 -- National Conservatism Is a Direct Threat to Religious Freedom -- 0
ID# 7818 -- 7818 -- National Conservatism Is a Direct Threat to Religious Freedom -- 0
ID# 7832 -- 7832 -- 19 Democratic Senators Say “Due Process Sucks” -- 0
ID# 7834 -- 7834 -- Trump's Threats of Violence -- 0
ID# 7857 -- 7857 -- NetworkWeaver -- For a time when hyper-polarization is driving us ever further apart, a project and a blog focused on strengthening the networks that hold us together.
ID# 7858 -- 7858 -- Persuasion -- From Yascha Mounk, a community building effort and first-rate blog focused on approaching today's controversies in the spirit of persuasive argument rather than us-vs-them politics.
ID# 7858 -- 7858 -- Persuasion -- From Yascha Mounk, a community building effort and first-rate blog focused on approaching today's controversies in the spirit of persuasive argument rather than us-vs-them politics.
ID# 7860 -- 7860 -- The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr. -- A newsletter focused on science, public policy and, especially, climate change that, in being critical of much of mainstream coverage, argues for more effective climate change policies.
ID# 7863 -- 7863 -- Quillette -- Quillette offers an extensive series of lengthy critiques of progressive policies on a broad range of subjects (that demonstrate that there is more to politics than the Trump debate).
ID# 7866 -- 7866 -- Common Sense -- From Bari Weiss, who first alerted us to many instances in which (like right-leaning media) left-leaning media was being distorted by audience resistance to stories that challenge prevailing orthodoxies.
ID# 7867 -- 7867 -- The Best of Journalism -- A great, weekly collection of links to a diverse and thought-provoking array of stories from both mainstream and less visible sources.
ID# 7870 -- 7870 -- The Dot Connecters -- A blog from Chip Hauss, one of the early forces behind BI and someone who taught us much about the importance of leaving one's "comfort zone" and listening to people from different perspectives.
ID# 7872 -- 7872 -- Fractal Friends -- The series of thought-provoking podcasts from Omni-Win's Duncan Autrey.
ID# 7873 -- 7873 -- Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism -- FAIR offers a broad critique of mainstream diversity, equity, and inclusion programs along with a promising and less provocative strategy for achieving the same goals.
ID# 7873 -- 7873 -- Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism -- FAIR offers a broad critique of mainstream diversity, equity, and inclusion programs along with a promising and less provocative strategy for achieving the same goals.
ID# 7874 -- 7874 -- Tablet -- With a principal focus on Jewish news, Tablet also provides thoughtful, in-depth critiques of current issues and insights into the much neglected problem of anti-Semitism.
ID# 7875 -- 7875 -- Slow Boring -- From Matthew Yglesias, a newsletter that specializes on going beyond feel-good policy slogans and really engaging (but in an understandable way) complex issues.
ID# 7876 -- 7876 -- American Purpose -- With an editorial board chaired by Francis Fukuyama, the American Purpose offers an extensive set of materials focused on defending and improving liberal democracy.
ID# 7877 -- 7877 -- Counterweight -- Counterweight offers an impressive array of resources designed to help those who would like to question now dominant social policies but feel pressured not to do so.
ID# 7879 -- 7879 -- The Fulcrum -- From The Bridge Alliance, "a platform where insiders and outsiders to politics are informed, meet, talk, and act to repair our democracy and make it live and work in our everyday lives."
ID# 7879 -- 7879 -- The Fulcrum -- From The Bridge Alliance, "a platform where insiders and outsiders to politics are informed, meet, talk, and act to repair our democracy and make it live and work in our everyday lives."
ID# 7879 -- 7879 -- The Fulcrum -- From The Bridge Alliance, "a platform where insiders and outsiders to politics are informed, meet, talk, and act to repair our democracy and make it live and work in our everyday lives."
ID# 7881 -- 7881 -- National Association of Scholars -- A website devoted to upholding the standards of a liberal arts education and fostering intellectual freedom, the search for the truth, and virtuous citizenship.
ID# 7882 -- 7882 -- Journal of Free Black Thought -- A provocative Substack newsletter that demonstrates that there is a rich diversity of black thought that goes far beyond prevailing orthodoxies.
ID# 7883 -- 7883 -- Kleptocracy -- For a world in which corruption is the arguably biggest threat to the ability of liberal democracy's ability to live up to its ideals, a website that keeps track of the global kleptocracy and efforts to combat it.
ID# 7883 -- 7883 -- Kleptocracy -- For a world in which corruption is the arguably biggest threat to the ability of liberal democracy's ability to live up to its ideals, a website that keeps track of the global kleptocracy and efforts to combat it.
ID# 7885 -- 7885 -- The Liberal Patriot -- The Liberal Patriot is a website for people interested in building a viable center-left coalition based on longstanding liberal values of tolerance, pluralism, freedom, the common good, and pragmatism.
ID# 7890 -- 7890 -- Scholars Ask Congress to Scrap Winner-Take-All Political System -- 0
ID# 7892 -- 7892 -- Give Ordinary People a Say On Abortion (and Other Contentious Issues) -- An inspiring report on Ireland's Citizens Assembly and its surprisingly successful efforts to bring collaborative problem-solving to the morally fraught issue of abortion.
ID# 7892 -- 7892 -- Give Ordinary People a Say On Abortion (and Other Contentious Issues) -- An inspiring report on Ireland's Citizens Assembly and its surprisingly successful efforts to bring collaborative problem-solving to the morally fraught issue of abortion.
ID# 7910 -- 7910 -- The Two Fiduciary Duties of Professors -- From Jonathan Haidt, an exploration of the collision between "two incompatible sacred values in American universities" -- truth vs. social justice.
ID# 7912 -- 7912 -- Misunderstanding Equality -- "While people may have been created equal, they are, most certainly, not all alike." A provocative exploration of the nature of equity and equality.
ID# 7913 -- 7913 -- Why Religious Freedom Matters, Even if You’re Not Religious -- An important reminder that religious freedom is of critical importance to all – even those whose socio-cultural beliefs are not grounded in one of the major religious traditions.
ID# 7932 -- 7932 -- How Are U.S. Public School Teachers Approaching Civic and Citizenship Education? -- For those wanting to help strengthen democracy by strengthening civic education, a report on where things now stand.
ID# 7932 -- 7932 -- How Are U.S. Public School Teachers Approaching Civic and Citizenship Education? -- For those wanting to help strengthen democracy by strengthening civic education, a report on where things now stand.
ID# 7933 -- 7933 -- How Democracies Live: The Long Struggle for Equality Amid Diversity -- An in-depth review and summary of two major new books that explore options for strengthening democracy in ways that better cope with socio-cultural diversity and economic inequity.
ID# 7933 -- 7933 -- How Democracies Live: The Long Struggle for Equality Amid Diversity -- An in-depth review and summary of two major new books that explore options for strengthening democracy in ways that better cope with socio-cultural diversity and economic inequity.
ID# 7935 -- 7935 -- The Crisis of Men and Boys -- As we continue to work hard to make opportunities available for women and girls, a sobering reminder that men and boys need help as well.
ID# 7944 -- 7944 -- There Is a Tax That Could Help With Inflation -- An example of a creative idea that might be able to help us escape today's lose-lose policy options for controlling inflation. We need to cultivate such outside-the-box thinking.
ID# 7952 -- 7952 -- Braver Angels Aims to Mend Our Polarized Relationships -- 0
ID# 7954 -- 7954 -- What If Russia Uses Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine? -- A rarity in reporting on Ukraine, an authoritative article that explains the complex and dangerous issues surrounding Russian threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine (and, perhaps, elsewhere).
ID# 7958 -- 7958 -- The End of Progressive Intellectual Life -- A worrisome argument that progressives have concluded that today's big issues all fall into the realm of "settled knowledge" where disagreement and debate is no longer appropriate.
ID# 7959 -- 7959 -- America Talks: National Week of Conversation -- An annual online event matching 1000s of people across the political divide to talk, listen, learn and act together. Last held April 24-30, 2022.
ID# 7959 -- 7959 -- America Talks: National Week of Conversation -- An annual online event matching 1000s of people across the political divide to talk, listen, learn and act together. Last held April 24-30, 2022.
ID# 7960 -- 7960 -- America Talks Conversation Guide -- A guide for participants in the National Week of Conversation; this can also be used by others wanting to have a productive conversation with people across differences.
ID# 7960 -- 7960 -- America Talks Conversation Guide -- A guide for participants in the National Week of Conversation; this can also be used by others wanting to have a productive conversation with people across differences.
ID# 7961 -- 7961 -- Ethelo -- Ethelo is a "digital democracy platform" that helps organizations come to consensus solutions after involving many stakeholders in an online deliberative process.
ID# 7961 -- 7961 -- Ethelo -- Ethelo is a "digital democracy platform" that helps organizations come to consensus solutions after involving many stakeholders in an online deliberative process.
ID# 7961 -- 7961 -- Ethelo -- Ethelo is a "digital democracy platform" that helps organizations come to consensus solutions after involving many stakeholders in an online deliberative process.
ID# 7962 -- 7962 -- Ethelo.com Case Studies -- Case studies illustrating the many ways that Etholo has been applied to reach consensus solutions to tricky problems.
ID# 7962 -- 7962 -- Ethelo.com Case Studies -- Case studies illustrating the many ways that Etholo has been applied to reach consensus solutions to tricky problems.
ID# 7963 -- 7963 -- Healthy Democracy -- Healthy Democracy is a US-based nonpartisan nonprofit that designs and coordinates innovative deliberative democracy programs
ID# 7963 -- 7963 -- Healthy Democracy -- Healthy Democracy is a US-based nonpartisan nonprofit that designs and coordinates innovative deliberative democracy programs
ID# 7963 -- 7963 -- Healthy Democracy -- Healthy Democracy is a US-based nonpartisan nonprofit that designs and coordinates innovative deliberative democracy programs
ID# 7964 -- 7964 -- The Democracy, Politics, and Conflict Engagement Initiative (DPACE) -- A Mediators Beyond Borders initiative to enhance social movements and communities to engage in conflict constructively.
ID# 7964 -- 7964 -- The Democracy, Politics, and Conflict Engagement Initiative (DPACE) -- A Mediators Beyond Borders initiative to enhance social movements and communities to engage in conflict constructively.
ID# 7984 -- 7984 -- Mounting intimidation against members of Congress threatens us all -- 0
ID# 7985 -- 7985 -- Ukraine’s New Offensive Is Fueled by Captured Russian Weapons -- A report on the war in Ukraine with stunning statistics revealing that Ukrainians have captured and are using more heavy equipment from the Russians than they have been receiving from the West.
ID# 7992 -- 7992 -- Russia's Defeat in Ukraine Would Be America's Problem -- An important appeal to the US and its allies -- think carefully about the lessons we learn from the war in Ukraine and don't make the mistake of thinking we are more powerful than we really are.
ID# 7994 -- 7994 -- Why China Didn’t Liberalize -- An article that explores the failure of the "theory of change" that we thought would lead to the emergence of successful liberal democracies around the world.
ID# 8002 -- 8002 -- How social media ‘censorship’ became a front line in the culture war -- An article that demonstrates how extraordinarily difficult is going to be to build a bipartisan consensus on how to control the many aspects of social media that threaten democracy.
ID# 8006 -- 8006 -- How Hitler's Enablers Undid Democracy in Germany -- An article to help us fill in a critically important gap in our understanding of what, exactly, allowed the Nazis to come to power. We need to understand this history to avoid repeating it.
ID# 8006 -- 8006 -- How Hitler's Enablers Undid Democracy in Germany -- An article to help us fill in a critically important gap in our understanding of what, exactly, allowed the Nazis to come to power. We need to understand this history to avoid repeating it.
ID# 8014 -- 8014 -- Men Are Falling Behind -- An exploration of the many difficulties being faced by contemporary men and an explanation of why society's failure to address these problems is both a human tragedy and a political disaster.
ID# 8017 -- 8017 -- Why Men Are Hard to Help -- A look at the obstacles that we will have to overcome before we can expect to reintegrate the many men and boys who are now alienated from both our economy and our society.
ID# 8018 -- 8018 -- A Columbian Exchange -- A different and informative kind of dialogue -- a discussion transcript created by a reporter seeking to succinctly bring together competing views on the tension between Columbus and Indigenous Peoples Day.
ID# 8022 -- 8022 -- Fortune favours the shrewd -- More insight into the complexities of human psychology. This essay explores the surprisingly sophisticated nature of competition in evolutionary biology.
ID# 8025 -- 8025 -- Both Left and Right Are Converging on Authoritarianism -- A different and thought-provoking argument that hyper-polarization isn't the big problem. Rather it's a symptom of a bigger problem -- illiberalism on both the left and the right.
ID# 8025 -- 8025 -- Both Left and Right Are Converging on Authoritarianism -- A different and thought-provoking argument that hyper-polarization isn't the big problem. Rather it's a symptom of a bigger problem -- illiberalism on both the left and the right.
ID# 8025 -- 8025 -- Both Left and Right Are Converging on Authoritarianism -- A different and thought-provoking argument that hyper-polarization isn't the big problem. Rather it's a symptom of a bigger problem -- illiberalism on both the left and the right.
ID# 8025 -- 8025 -- Both Left and Right Are Converging on Authoritarianism -- A different and thought-provoking argument that hyper-polarization isn't the big problem. Rather it's a symptom of a bigger problem -- illiberalism on both the left and the right.
ID# 8040 -- 8040 -- Disagreement Isn’t Bigotry -- A thoughtful look at the miracle of religious pluralism and tolerance that we take for granted and reflections on why we can't seem to apply this to the "culture war."
ID# 8041 -- 8041 -- We Are Suddenly Taking On China and Russia at the Same Time -- As it fights its internal battles over racial and cultural issues, the world is sliding toward the kind of major confrontation that could make United States' internal battle seem trivial.
ID# 8044 -- 8044 -- Midterm Monitor – A tool to analyze and assess the information landscape prior to the 2022 US midterm elections -- An impressive effort to make what goes on in the largely hidden world of social media-based political advertising visible.
ID# 8045 -- 8045 -- Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, and Midterm Candidates Peddle Russian Propaganda -- Disturbing news for those who thought that the United States was united in its opposition to the kind of brutal aggression on display in Ukraine.
ID# 8048 -- 8048 -- This Is What Happens When Race Is Everything -- Reflections on the far-reaching implications of a political philosophy that sees racism as the sole factor that determines the course of society.
ID# 8051 -- 8051 -- Why Conspiracy Theorists Always Land on the Jews -- An insightful exploration of the ways in which anti-Semitism differs from other forms of prejudice and discrimination.
ID# 8053 -- 8053 -- Tactical Nukes: A Primer -- An only slightly reassuring exploration of what everyone ought to know about the tactical nuclear weapons that now threaten to take us to the first nuclear war since 1945.
ID# 8056 -- 8056 -- Calif. Passed CARE Court Bill. Will Other States Follow? -- A look at California's efforts to deal with the hard choices that arise when the problems of untreated mental illness intersect with the politically explosive issue of homelessness.
ID# 8057 -- 8057 -- Xi Jinping Has Fallen Into the Dictator Trap -- While there is plenty of reason to fear the rise of authoritarian leaders like Xi and Putin, there is also reason to believe that they may be sowing the seeds of their own (and their country's) destruction.
ID# 8057 -- 8057 -- Xi Jinping Has Fallen Into the Dictator Trap -- While there is plenty of reason to fear the rise of authoritarian leaders like Xi and Putin, there is also reason to believe that they may be sowing the seeds of their own (and their country's) destruction.
ID# 8058 -- 8058 -- What a Report of Extreme Racism Teaches Us -- Reflections on the fact that a great many of the stories of extreme racism that are doing so much to drive us apart turn out not to be true.
ID# 8063 -- 8063 -- Don't Buy the Mitt Romney Martyr Theory -- An examination of how the Republican Party that nominated Mitt Romney came to embrace Donald Trump in the style of politics we now call Trumpism.
ID# 8069 -- 8069 -- We’re not going away': Conservatives build their own media ecosystem to fight cancel culture -- Further evidence that "cancel culture" sanctions and misinformation control measures are not going to resolve our conflicts. They will simply divide us into ever more isolated information bubbles.
ID# 8069 -- 8069 -- We’re not going away': Conservatives build their own media ecosystem to fight cancel culture -- Further evidence that "cancel culture" sanctions and misinformation control measures are not going to resolve our conflicts. They will simply divide us into ever more isolated information bubbles.
ID# 8075 -- 8075 -- Duncan Autrey: It's Time to Upgrade Our Democracy -- Duncan Autrey suggests that we already have the tools to make our democracy work much better for everyone — wejust need to start using them.
ID# 8075 -- 8075 -- Duncan Autrey: It's Time to Upgrade Our Democracy -- Duncan Autrey suggests that we already have the tools to make our democracy work much better for everyone — wejust need to start using them.
ID# 8087 -- 8087 -- Leaders of democracies increasingly echo Putin in authoritarian tilt -- 0
ID# 8087 -- 8087 -- Leaders of democracies increasingly echo Putin in authoritarian tilt -- 0
ID# 8089 -- 8089 -- America Needs a New Civil Rights Act -- A controversial argument for new civil rights legislation (and, a reminder that people with different perspectives can look at the same problem and reach very different conclusions.)
ID# 8092 -- 8092 -- Francis Fukuyama: Still the End of History -- A compelling observation that the alternatives to liberal democracy are still much, much worse. We just have to figure out how to make democracy live up to its ideals.
ID# 8092 -- 8092 -- Francis Fukuyama: Still the End of History -- A compelling observation that the alternatives to liberal democracy are still much, much worse. We just have to figure out how to make democracy live up to its ideals.
ID# 8092 -- 8092 -- Francis Fukuyama: Still the End of History -- A compelling observation that the alternatives to liberal democracy are still much, much worse. We just have to figure out how to make democracy live up to its ideals.
ID# 8094 -- 8094 -- The Sources of Russian Misconduct -- From a defecting Russian diplomat, an explanation of how an environment in which dissent was not tolerated led to the tragedy in Ukraine (with important lessons for those suppressing dissent in the US).
ID# 8096 -- 8096 -- America's Democratic Backsliding Is Not Universal -- For those clinging to the belief that the United States is still the most successful democracy, evidence that others are doing better (and that maybe we can learn from them).
ID# 8103 -- 8103 -- The Environmentalists Undermining Environmentalism -- A reminder that efforts to limit climate change will require us all to make tough choices and sacrifices -- including environmentalists.
ID# 8103 -- 8103 -- The Environmentalists Undermining Environmentalism -- A reminder that efforts to limit climate change will require us all to make tough choices and sacrifices -- including environmentalists.
ID# 8104 -- 8104 -- Can Democracy Exist Without Liberalism? -- For a time when illiberal democracy is on the rise, Shadi Hamid reflects the all-important relationship between liberalism and democracy.
ID# 8104 -- 8104 -- Can Democracy Exist Without Liberalism? -- For a time when illiberal democracy is on the rise, Shadi Hamid reflects the all-important relationship between liberalism and democracy.
ID# 8115 -- 8115 -- The Horizons Project: Sharing a United Front -- Social change agents need to build a united front by fosterning a shared understanding of the threat, collaborating across difference, and forming dense networks.
ID# 8115 -- 8115 -- The Horizons Project: Sharing a United Front -- Social change agents need to build a united front by fosterning a shared understanding of the threat, collaborating across difference, and forming dense networks.
ID# 8115 -- 8115 -- The Horizons Project: Sharing a United Front -- Social change agents need to build a united front by fosterning a shared understanding of the threat, collaborating across difference, and forming dense networks.
ID# 8117 -- 8117 -- Narrative Engagement Across Difference (NEAD) Project -- The Horizons Project is joining forces with funders, researchers, and movement leaders to develop narrative competencies that can be used to strengthen democracies and combat rising authoritarianism.
ID# 8117 -- 8117 -- Narrative Engagement Across Difference (NEAD) Project -- The Horizons Project is joining forces with funders, researchers, and movement leaders to develop narrative competencies that can be used to strengthen democracies and combat rising authoritarianism.
ID# 8117 -- 8117 -- Narrative Engagement Across Difference (NEAD) Project -- The Horizons Project is joining forces with funders, researchers, and movement leaders to develop narrative competencies that can be used to strengthen democracies and combat rising authoritarianism.
ID# 8117 -- 8117 -- Narrative Engagement Across Difference (NEAD) Project -- The Horizons Project is joining forces with funders, researchers, and movement leaders to develop narrative competencies that can be used to strengthen democracies and combat rising authoritarianism.
ID# 8118 -- 8118 -- Strengthening Social Connection and Opportunities in Rural Communities -- This report illustrates the benefits of including a broader array of voices in determining needs among residents of rural communities.
ID# 8118 -- 8118 -- Strengthening Social Connection and Opportunities in Rural Communities -- This report illustrates the benefits of including a broader array of voices in determining needs among residents of rural communities.
ID# 8119 -- 8119 -- The Two-Party System is Failing Us -- A discussion between Duncan Audrey and Benjamin Life discussing why the U.S.'s two-party system doesn't work, and what might be done about that.
ID# 8119 -- 8119 -- The Two-Party System is Failing Us -- A discussion between Duncan Audrey and Benjamin Life discussing why the U.S.'s two-party system doesn't work, and what might be done about that.
ID# 8122 -- 8122 -- The U.S. is Heading Toward a Second Civil War. Here Is How We Avoid It -- From Peter Coleman, a colleague with a long history of research into the problems posed by complexity and intractability, thoughts about how to escape our current predicament.
ID# 8122 -- 8122 -- The U.S. is Heading Toward a Second Civil War. Here Is How We Avoid It -- From Peter Coleman, a colleague with a long history of research into the problems posed by complexity and intractability, thoughts about how to escape our current predicament.
ID# 8125 -- 8125 -- How to Save Democracy -- From The Atlantic, a report on a massive, crowd-sourced effort to find and then test mass audience-based strategies for diffusing our hyper-polarized politics
ID# 8125 -- 8125 -- How to Save Democracy -- From The Atlantic, a report on a massive, crowd-sourced effort to find and then test mass audience-based strategies for diffusing our hyper-polarized politics
ID# 8126 -- 8126 -- How Stewart Made Tucker -- A surprising and quite perceptive explanation of the role that Jon Stewart played in bringing about today's more divisive media environment.
ID# 8126 -- 8126 -- How Stewart Made Tucker -- A surprising and quite perceptive explanation of the role that Jon Stewart played in bringing about today's more divisive media environment.
ID# 8134 -- 8134 -- The Boys Feminism Left Behind -- Reflections on the way in which the women's movement disrupted relationship patterns that existed between men and women for 1000s of years and thoughts about how to build new and better relationships.
ID# 8136 -- 8136 -- How Political Primaries Drive Britain’s Dysfunction -- 0
ID# 8139 -- 8139 -- Let’s Say Gay -- With respect to LBGTQ issues, a look at the complex way in which the language we use to describe social problems evolves and the way in which that language drives conflict and determines policies.
ID# 8140 -- 8140 -- The Way Los Angeles Is Trying to Solve Homelessness Is ‘Absolutely Insane’ -- A detailed account of how one well-funded and well-intentioned policy initiative is failing with valuable insights into the complex challenges that real-world problem-solving must meet.
ID# 8143 -- 8143 -- The Omnipotence of China's Xi Jinping -- An in-depth profile of Xi Jinping with important insights into the threat posed by 21st-century authoritarianism.
ID# 8143 -- 8143 -- The Omnipotence of China's Xi Jinping -- An in-depth profile of Xi Jinping with important insights into the threat posed by 21st-century authoritarianism.
ID# 8147 -- 8147 -- Future Population Growth -- Eye-opening, often surprising, and extremely important charts showing where populations are exploding, stable, and contracting and by how much.
ID# 8152 -- 8152 -- Toxic Polarization: What's the Left Got to Do With It? -- An AFP panel looking at how the Left contributes to toxic polarization with Erica Etelson, author of Beyond Contempt with Debilyn Molineaux from the Bridge Alliance, and Steve House with Braver Angels.
ID# 8152 -- 8152 -- Toxic Polarization: What's the Left Got to Do With It? -- An AFP panel looking at how the Left contributes to toxic polarization with Erica Etelson, author of Beyond Contempt with Debilyn Molineaux from the Bridge Alliance, and Steve House with Braver Angels.
ID# 8153 -- 8153 -- Bringing a Conflict Lens to the US and Corporations as Agents of Peace -- The first of a series of webinars held by the Alliance for Peacebuilding examining the need for and methods for doing peacebuilding in the United States.
ID# 8153 -- 8153 -- Bringing a Conflict Lens to the US and Corporations as Agents of Peace -- The first of a series of webinars held by the Alliance for Peacebuilding examining the need for and methods for doing peacebuilding in the United States.
ID# 8154 -- 8154 -- Princeton University's Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) -- BDI is a non-partisan research initiative that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States by building community resilience.
ID# 8154 -- 8154 -- Princeton University's Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) -- BDI is a non-partisan research initiative that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States by building community resilience.
ID# 8155 -- 8155 -- Bridging Divides Initiative Building Resilience Ecosystem Map -- An interactive map showing both political violence in the US and bridging organizations working to prevent such violence.
ID# 8155 -- 8155 -- Bridging Divides Initiative Building Resilience Ecosystem Map -- An interactive map showing both political violence in the US and bridging organizations working to prevent such violence.
ID# 8156 -- 8156 -- Bridging Divides Initiative Report: Election 2020 Political Violence Data and Trends -- A report on the events leading up to and following Jan. 6 show that patterns of behavior exhibited that day were established long before that date.
ID# 8156 -- 8156 -- Bridging Divides Initiative Report: Election 2020 Political Violence Data and Trends -- A report on the events leading up to and following Jan. 6 show that patterns of behavior exhibited that day were established long before that date.
ID# 8157 -- 8157 -- Dismantling Structural Racism and Injustice -- An AfP webinar discussing the ways structural racism contributes to the current state of affairs in our country and how we can move toward justice, peace, and reconciliation.
ID# 8157 -- 8157 -- Dismantling Structural Racism and Injustice -- An AfP webinar discussing the ways structural racism contributes to the current state of affairs in our country and how we can move toward justice, peace, and reconciliation.
ID# 8158 -- 8158 -- Sure, Twitter and Facebook have deepened polarization — just not in the way you think -- Provocative new insights into the ways in which the Internet and social media contribute to hyper-polarization (and another reason to question our simple explanations of complex realities).
ID# 8158 -- 8158 -- Sure, Twitter and Facebook have deepened polarization — just not in the way you think -- Provocative new insights into the ways in which the Internet and social media contribute to hyper-polarization (and another reason to question our simple explanations of complex realities).
ID# 8161 -- 8161 -- Scaling-Up Peacebuilding and Social Justice Work: A Conceptual Model -- An academic exploration of one of the most important and difficult challenges facing peacebuilders – scaling up their efforts to the point where they can positively alter the trajectory of society.
ID# 8161 -- 8161 -- Scaling-Up Peacebuilding and Social Justice Work: A Conceptual Model -- An academic exploration of one of the most important and difficult challenges facing peacebuilders – scaling up their efforts to the point where they can positively alter the trajectory of society.
ID# 8163 -- 8163 -- How honest American history can cultivate gratitude -- An argument for a less divisive and more inclusive way of thinking about the United States' many historical failings -- combine that with a celebration of the very real progress that has been made.
ID# 8164 -- 8164 -- Fear of Cancel Culture Is Worse Than Cancel Culture -- The ambiguous and, in many ways, unpredictable ways in which the cancel culture punishes "unacceptable" behavior has dramatically increased its impact (by forcing most everyone to "play it safe").
ID# 8166 -- 8166 -- The Real Reason Cancel Culture Is So Contentious -- An intriguing new explanation of why the "cancel culture" wars are so divisive -- neither side is being clear about exactly what they want (leaving their others to assume the worst).
ID# 8167 -- 8167 -- Dr. McFiddle’s Brilliant Book of Creative Conflict Potions and Other Magical Things -- Terrific news! From Josh Weiss (a longtime colleague and contributor to Beyond Intractability), a new book that teaches kids how to handle conflict more constructively.
ID# 8170 -- 8170 -- Democracy is at risk. Ten newsrooms explored what’s strengthening it. -- Profiles of ten news organizations that are going beyond superficial, horse-race (who's winning, who's losing) political reporting and helping their audiences understand how democracy could be improved.
ID# 8170 -- 8170 -- Democracy is at risk. Ten newsrooms explored what’s strengthening it. -- Profiles of ten news organizations that are going beyond superficial, horse-race (who's winning, who's losing) political reporting and helping their audiences understand how democracy could be improved.
ID# 8177 -- 8177 -- Abortion -- Conversation Guide -- A practical guide for those wanting to know how to convene and facilitate constructive dialogues capable of spanning partisan divides and meaningfully addressing our most controversial issues.
ID# 8177 -- 8177 -- Abortion -- Conversation Guide -- A practical guide for those wanting to know how to convene and facilitate constructive dialogues capable of spanning partisan divides and meaningfully addressing our most controversial issues.
ID# 8180 -- 8180 -- The Rising Tide of Global Sadness -- An overview of several major new studies that reveal a little recognized and largely unaddressed catastrophe--- stunning declines in the mysterious factors that make us happy.
ID# 8185 -- 8185 -- Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View -- Hopeful news that, despite many, many problems, our efforts to combat climate change are having an impact and the future is starting to look a bit brighter. Keep working, things aren't hopeless.
ID# 8185 -- 8185 -- Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View -- Hopeful news that, despite many, many problems, our efforts to combat climate change are having an impact and the future is starting to look a bit brighter. Keep working, things aren't hopeless.
ID# 8188 -- 8188 -- The Progressive Case Against Race-Based Affirmative Action -- An example of the advantages of questioning prevailing orthodoxies and looking for better ways of pursuing the things that we really care about.
ID# 8191 -- 8191 -- The Democrats’ Climate Problem -- A detailed account of one case in which conflict dynamics have pushed problem-solving efforts toward extremes---extremes which undermine efforts to deal with the problem.
ID# 8191 -- 8191 -- The Democrats’ Climate Problem -- A detailed account of one case in which conflict dynamics have pushed problem-solving efforts toward extremes---extremes which undermine efforts to deal with the problem.
ID# 8197 -- 8197 -- Putin Is Onto Us -- For those who may have lost interest in the war in Ukraine, a reminder that the war has not lost interest in us. A look at what the coming winter could bring.
ID# 8200 -- 8200 -- Why are our debates about rights so toxic? -- At a time when it seems like most everyone believes that their fundamental rights are being violated, look at one of the most insightful books on rights-based conflict.
ID# 8200 -- 8200 -- Why are our debates about rights so toxic? -- At a time when it seems like most everyone believes that their fundamental rights are being violated, look at one of the most insightful books on rights-based conflict.
ID# 8204 -- 8204 -- A Compromise on Immigration Is Possible. This Bill Could Make It Happen. -- Welcome news that, even in today's hyper- polarized environment, there are people who are actively working to reach mutually beneficial, compromise agreements on today's tough issues.
ID# 8212 -- 8212 -- Democrats Are Getting Democracy Wrong. Here's Why. -- From the left, self-critical food for thought as the United States contemplates the meaning of the 2022 elections and what it will really take to "save democracy."
ID# 8213 -- 8213 -- It’s Always a ‘Negative World’ for Christianity -- For those on the secular left who feel threatened by advocates of traditional Christian beliefs, look at what the constant criticism of Christianity feels like from the other side.
ID# 8214 -- 8214 -- Civic Health Projects -- Short, simple interventions can reduce partisan animosity (yay)! So, what comes next? -- Ninety ideas for correcting inaccurate stereotypes, appealing to common identities, role modeling, strengthening political leadership, highlighting the threat, modifying social media, etc.
ID# 8214 -- 8214 -- Civic Health Projects -- Short, simple interventions can reduce partisan animosity (yay)! So, what comes next? -- Ninety ideas for correcting inaccurate stereotypes, appealing to common identities, role modeling, strengthening political leadership, highlighting the threat, modifying social media, etc.
ID# 8215 -- 8215 -- Andrew Harward: A Vision of Constructive Political Conflict in The United States -- A visioning exercise yields a credible plan for significantly reducing political polarization -- with many additional benefits to individuals, organizations, and society as a whole as well.
ID# 8216 -- 8216 -- Guy Burgess: Finding Common Ground / Constructive Approaches for Addressing Differences -- This process focuses on five questions examining the nature of the different beliefs and opinions, and how they might be dealt with most constructively depending on whether they are fact-based, moral, or both.
ID# 8217 -- 8217 -- Frederick Golder on Common Ground instead of Polarization -- We cannot change anyone’s opinions, values, ideas, attitudes, judgments, or viewpoints, but, we can understand each other better through learning conversations and use those to find common ground.
ID# 8218 -- 8218 -- Beware the Popular Idea That You Know a Hidden Truth -- A cautionary tale about the dangers of a universal metaphor--that knowledgeable, virtuous people are "awake" and others are "asleep," hence unaware of "truths" that the "awake" people know.
ID# 8218 -- 8218 -- Beware the Popular Idea That You Know a Hidden Truth -- A cautionary tale about the dangers of a universal metaphor--that knowledgeable, virtuous people are "awake" and others are "asleep," hence unaware of "truths" that the "awake" people know.
ID# 8218 -- 8218 -- Beware the Popular Idea That You Know a Hidden Truth -- This metaphor leads to a binary assumption: I'm right, they are wrong. We'd be well served dropping that assumption, and listening to others to learn how they might, actually, be right, and we are wrong.
ID# 8219 -- 8219 -- AfP Seminar--Toxic Polarization: What's the Left Got to Do with It? -- The language used to refer to the right is just making things worse, not better. The substance of the left's arguments matters too.
ID# 8220 -- 8220 -- Kristen Hansen: Are Bridge-builders Being "Too Nice" to the Right? -- A suggestion of ways bridge-builders and the left might talk to the right so that they don't reinforce the right's "Trumpian" tendencies.
ID# 8220 -- 8220 -- Kristen Hansen: Are Bridge-builders Being "Too Nice" to the Right? -- A suggestion of ways bridge-builders and the left might talk to the right so that they don't reinforce the right's "Trumpian" tendencies.
ID# 8220 -- 8220 -- Kristen Hansen: Are Bridge-builders Being "Too Nice" to the Right? -- The primary role of bridge-builders in America at this time is to "call in," not to "call out." That this does not make us irrelevant, it makes us essential.
ID# 8221 -- 8221 -- Jean-Jacques Subrenat: Implementing Democracy -- Attacks on the rule of law in the U.S.A. are having an impact on the political mores of other democracies. The U.S. badly needs to update its own democracy to preserve the safety and prosperity of all around the world. November
ID# 8222 -- 8222 -- Is Polarization Good or Bad? -- Several commentators have observed that polarization can be good. That is true if "polarization" simply means "conflict," but not when it becomes destructive. On that we all agree.
ID# 8222 -- 8222 -- Is Polarization Good or Bad? -- Several commentators have observed that polarization can be good. That is true if "polarization" simply means "conflict," but not when it becomes destructive. On that we all agree.
ID# 8223 -- 8223 -- Matt Legge: When Polarization is Beneficial -- Matt Legge's illustration of how issue polarization can help people come closer to understanding "the truth" about controversial events or issues.
ID# 8223 -- 8223 -- Matt Legge: When Polarization is Beneficial -- Matt Legge's illustration of how issue polarization can help people come closer to understanding "the truth" about controversial events or issues.
ID# 8223 -- 8223 -- Matt Legge: When Polarization is Beneficial -- How information is presented to parties in conflicts makes a big difference to the quality of the conflict that ensues.
ID# 8224 -- 8224 -- Caleb Christen: Creating an Inter-movement Community -- Transforming democracy is an adaptive challenge requiring flexibility, adaptability and intentionality in organizing to enable organizations and millions of Americans to work in unison.
ID# 8226 -- 8226 -- Lou Kriesberg's Chapter 10 in Fighting Better - Recovering and Advancing Equality in the Future -- A review of Louis Kriesberg's seven elements of constructive conflict, as illustrated in the closing chapter of his new book Fighting Better: Constructive Conflicts in America.
ID# 8226 -- 8226 -- Lou Kriesberg's Chapter 10 in Fighting Better - Recovering and Advancing Equality in the Future -- A review of Louis Kriesberg's seven elements of constructive conflict, as illustrated in the closing chapter of his new book Fighting Better: Constructive Conflicts in America.
ID# 8226 -- 8226 -- Lou Kriesberg's Chapter 10 in Fighting Better - Recovering and Advancing Equality in the Future -- Our interests are much better served if we pursue our goals collaboratively, and when not possible, using persuasion and nonviolent coercion to get the job done. Violence doesn't work nearly as well.
ID# 8227 -- 8227 -- Canaries, Constructive Advocates, and Intermediaries -- A comparison of three conflict roles, all of which are needed to successfully confront challenging and complex social problems and issues.
ID# 8227 -- 8227 -- Canaries, Constructive Advocates, and Intermediaries -- A comparison of three conflict roles, all of which are needed to successfully confront challenging and complex social problems and issues.
ID# 8227 -- 8227 -- Canaries, Constructive Advocates, and Intermediaries -- Canaries sometimes see intermediaries as "sell outs." Actually all three roles are needed to bring about social change.
ID# 8228 -- 8228 -- Conversation with Kristen Hansen, Executive Director of the Civic Health Project -- Video conversation with Kristen Hansen about her bridge-building work--what's behind it, why it matters and what it takes to do it successfully.
ID# 8228 -- 8228 -- Conversation with Kristen Hansen, Executive Director of the Civic Health Project -- Video conversation with Kristen Hansen about her bridge-building work--what's behind it, why it matters and what it takes to do it successfully.
ID# 8228 -- 8228 -- Conversation with Kristen Hansen, Executive Director of the Civic Health Project -- Video conversation with Kristen Hansen about her bridge-building work--what's behind it, why it matters and what it takes to do it successfully.
ID# 8228 -- 8228 -- Conversation with Kristen Hansen, Executive Director of the Civic Health Project -- Video conversation with Kristen Hansen about her bridge-building work--what's behind it, why it matters and what it takes to do it successfully.
ID# 8251 -- 8251 -- An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science -- Hyper-polarization reinforces the illusion that we are absolutely right and anyone who disagrees is absolutely wrong. This illusion now threatens the ability of science to find real solutions to problems.
ID# 8252 -- 8252 -- Cacophonocracy -- Important new word: cacophonocracy --what happens when the possibility of consensus among the governed deteriorates to unmanageable extremes.
ID# 8253 -- 8253 -- Citizens for Global Solutions 2022 Annual Conference -- A free, virtual conference, that explores five models for global governance and the organizations that are pursuing them today.
ID# 8255 -- 8255 -- How to have political disagreements without ruining relationships -- 0
ID# 8268 -- 8268 -- Biden Can Still Get Things Done. Achieving National Unity Isn’t One of Them -- For deeply divided society, a more realistic look at things that might be actually accomplished over the near-term.
ID# 8279 -- 8279 -- The Fever Is Breaking -- A hopeful argument that the 2022 election marks both the beginning of the end of the "performative populism" that has upended US democracy and a new era of real problem-solving.
ID# 8280 -- 8280 -- A Radically Different Model of American Education: UATX’s Jacob Howland Speaks to the PEP -- An update on the University of Austin -- an outside-the-box effort to create a new university capable of avoiding a great many of the problems that now plague higher education.
ID# 8280 -- 8280 -- A Radically Different Model of American Education: UATX’s Jacob Howland Speaks to the PEP -- An update on the University of Austin -- an outside-the-box effort to create a new university capable of avoiding a great many of the problems that now plague higher education.
ID# 8282 -- 8282 -- How the 2022 Midterms Became a Squeaker -- Based on more than 70 interviews, a detailed account of the strategic and tactical decisions that enabled Democratic candidates to do so much better than expected.
ID# 8297 -- 8297 -- Democrats took an unconscionable gamble — and it worked -- More on the Democrats' effective, but morally fraught strategy -- promoting the nomination of extreme "Trumpist" candidates and then running against the threat those candidates pose to democracy.
ID# 8303 -- 8303 -- No One Votes for Democracy -- Reflections on the perils of avoiding debates on substantive policy questions and replacing them with vague aspirations of "hope" and "greatness" and the demonization of political adversaries.
ID# 8305 -- 8305 -- Why Is America Always Divided 50–50 -- An analysis of the many reasons why the United States continues to be so evenly and so bitterly divided with important insights for bridge-building efforts.
ID# 8305 -- 8305 -- Why Is America Always Divided 50–50 -- An analysis of the many reasons why the United States continues to be so evenly and so bitterly divided with important insights for bridge-building efforts.
ID# 8305 -- 8305 -- Why Is America Always Divided 50–50 -- An analysis of the many reasons why the United States continues to be so evenly and so bitterly divided with important insights for bridge-building efforts.
ID# 8308 -- 8308 -- An atmosphere of violence: Stochastic terror in American politics -- 0
ID# 8309 -- 8309 -- Three Theories That Explain This Strange Moment -- An especially perceptive look at three theories that, together, do much to explain the continuing stability and intensity of the United States' hyper-polarized political standoff.
ID# 8316 -- 8316 -- Hillary Clinton Accepted Her Loss, but a Lot Has Changed Since 2016 -- Based on the important new book "The Bitter End," an in-depth look at the process of "political calcification" that has made hyper-polarization such an intractable problem.
ID# 8335 -- 8335 -- When Partisans Cry Wolf -- An exceptionally clear explanation of how democracy is actually being undermined by the many ways in which the left and the right frame their political opponents as existential threats to democracy.
ID# 8341 -- 8341 -- ‘The Big One Is Coming’ and the U.S. Military Isn’t Ready -- 0
ID# 8348 -- 8348 -- Biden’s Missing Democracy Pages -- A look at the speech that Biden should have given had he really been concerned with the many ways in which US democracy is being threatened.
ID# 8348 -- 8348 -- Biden’s Missing Democracy Pages -- A look at the speech that Biden should have given had he really been concerned with the many ways in which US democracy is being threatened.
ID# 8357 -- 8357 -- Lawyering Up -- The dreadful predictability of how partisans react to political violence. -- 0
ID# 8370 -- 8370 -- Only the GOP Celebrates Political Violence -- 0
ID# 8387 -- 8387 -- Applying Regenerative Practice to Systems Beyond Place -- Some Thoughts -- Describing regenerative practitioners who support change-makers by adapting principles of living systems to revive and evolve the places and the systems they are working with
ID# 8388 -- 8388 -- Congress is polarized. Fear of being ‘primaried’ is one reason. -- Unite America's Richard Barton writes about his research on incumbents, primary challengers, and how congressional gridlock is often the outcome.
ID# 8389 -- 8389 -- Digital Peacebuilders Guide -- An online guidebook for peacebuilders interested in using digital tools to advance their work.
ID# 8389 -- 8389 -- Digital Peacebuilders Guide -- An online guidebook for peacebuilders interested in using digital tools to advance their work.
ID# 8390 -- 8390 -- Complicating the Narratives. What if journalists covered controverial issues differently. -- An article by Amanda Ripley looking at how journalists can write better stories to help people become less polarized and suspicious.
ID# 8390 -- 8390 -- Complicating the Narratives. What if journalists covered controverial issues differently. -- An article by Amanda Ripley looking at how journalists can write better stories to help people become less polarized and suspicious.
ID# 8391 -- 8391 -- Institute for Negotiation Innovation -- INI is a new nonprofit which bridges negotiation research and practice, provides negotiation thought leadership, and mobilizes capacity for highler levels of negotiation competence and excellence.
ID# 8391 -- 8391 -- Institute for Negotiation Innovation -- INI is a new nonprofit which bridges negotiation research and practice, provides negotiation thought leadership, and mobilizes capacity for highler levels of negotiation competence and excellence.
ID# 8391 -- 8391 -- Institute for Negotiation Innovation -- INI is a new nonprofit which bridges negotiation research and practice, provides negotiation thought leadership, and mobilizes capacity for highler levels of negotiation competence and excellence.
ID# 8392 -- 8392 -- CBT and Peacebuilding -- A Chip Hauss blog post looking at how cognitive behavioral therapy can be brought "to scale" and used for conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
ID# 8392 -- 8392 -- CBT and Peacebuilding -- A Chip Hauss blog post looking at how cognitive behavioral therapy can be brought "to scale" and used for conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
ID# 8392 -- 8392 -- CBT and Peacebuilding -- A Chip Hauss blog post looking at how cognitive behavioral therapy can be brought "to scale" and used for conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
ID# 8393 -- 8393 -- The public has a role in defending and sustaining democracy -- Places to start: strengthening the electoral system, encouraging the value of public service, and focusing less on identity that divides us and more on commonalities that unite.
ID# 8393 -- 8393 -- The public has a role in defending and sustaining democracy -- Places to start: strengthening the electoral system, encouraging the value of public service, and focusing less on identity that divides us and more on commonalities that unite.
ID# 8395 -- 8395 -- Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Back with Whole-of-Society tactics -- This webinar reflected on the implications of this new type of warfare for liberal democracies. It highlights the need to build resilience and to increase collaboration between the public and private sectors.
ID# 8395 -- 8395 -- Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Back with Whole-of-Society tactics -- This webinar reflected on the implications of this new type of warfare for liberal democracies. It highlights the need to build resilience and to increase collaboration between the public and private sectors.
ID# 8396 -- 8396 -- 6 Reasons Why Liberatory Leaders Need to Take Play Seriously. -- Play is valuable because it helps fuel innovation, promotes wellness, creates new models of strategic thinking, expands leadership opportunities, builds community, and invites wholeness.
ID# 8397 -- 8397 -- The Dignity Index -- An eight-point scale that scores speech on its power to unite or divide. Start your own journey by taking the Dignity Pledge.
ID# 8397 -- 8397 -- The Dignity Index -- An eight-point scale that scores speech on its power to unite or divide. Start your own journey by taking the Dignity Pledge.
ID# 8397 -- 8397 -- The Dignity Index -- An eight-point scale that scores speech on its power to unite or divide. Start your own journey by taking the Dignity Pledge.
ID# 8398 -- 8398 -- Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy -- A really first-rate article that, from a different perspective and in a different way, is trying to do what Beyond Intractability is trying to do with our Hyper- Polarization Discussion.
ID# 8398 -- 8398 -- Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy -- A really first-rate article that, from a different perspective and in a different way, is trying to do what Beyond Intractability is trying to do with our Hyper- Polarization Discussion.
ID# 8398 -- 8398 -- Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy -- A really first-rate article that, from a different perspective and in a different way, is trying to do what Beyond Intractability is trying to do with our Hyper- Polarization Discussion.
ID# 8409 -- 8409 -- The New Woke Discrimination Demands a New Law -- From the Wall Street Journal, a carefully reasoned explanation of what those on the right see as today's big civil rights issue (and a proposed remedy) -- a controversial viewpoint worth understanding.
ID# 8416 -- 8416 -- A Dispatch from the Exhausted Majority -- A comprehensive look at how the extreme us-vs-them rhetoric of the hard left and the hard right is viewed by the majority of voters who inhabit the political center.
ID# 8426 -- 8426 -- "Election Denial" for Me, But Not for Thee: YouTube Censors TK-Produced Videos, Again, Despite Factual Accuracy -- 0
ID# 8454 -- 8454 -- After Intersectionalism -- An argument worth considering -- the possibility that the intersectional struggle against oppression will lead to an era of widespread conflict between the various identity groups.
ID# 8465 -- 8465 -- The Future of American Warfare Is Unfolding in Ukraine -- Thoughtful reflections on the differences between US interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ukraine and what this means for the future of war (and prospects for preventing war).
ID# 8474 -- 8474 -- What Makes Life Meaningful? Views From 17 Advanced Economies -- A statistical look at a critical dimension of cultural diversity -- differing assessments of what makes life meaningful.
ID# 8474 -- 8474 -- What Makes Life Meaningful? Views From 17 Advanced Economies -- A statistical look at a critical dimension of cultural diversity -- differing assessments of what makes life meaningful.
ID# 8476 -- 8476 -- ‘Seek and Hide’ Grapples With the Complexity of the Right to Privacy -- A thought-provoking report on a new analysis of the long-standing conflict between the freedom of speech and the right to privacy.
ID# 8480 -- 8480 -- More than 1,000 professors sign on to ‘Stanford Academic Freedom Declaration’ -- For those interested in defending academic freedom and the ability of universities to help us really solve problems, a report on the campaign to build support for the "Chicago Trifecta."
ID# 8484 -- 8484 -- How Fundamentalism Fails -- From a Christian perspective, a more universal explanation of the limits of fundamentalism and the belief in absolute self-righteousness -- "a closed fist can’t overcome the open hand."
ID# 8486 -- 8486 -- How Meltdowns Brought Progressive Groups to a Standstill -- An in-depth look at the many costs associated with an inability to constructively handle intractable conflicts over deep-rooted moral and distributional issues.
ID# 8486 -- 8486 -- How Meltdowns Brought Progressive Groups to a Standstill -- An in-depth look at the many costs associated with an inability to constructively handle intractable conflicts over deep-rooted moral and distributional issues.
ID# 8493 -- 8493 -- A Good-Will Government Was Possible in Israel -- From Naftali Bennett, lessons learned from Israel's attempt to govern across deep political divides -- an attempt that focused on the "70/70 rule" (the 70% of issues that 70% of Israelis agree upon).
ID# 8496 -- 8496 -- Slouching Towards Utopia -- A review of an important new book, "Slouching Towards Utopia," that offers a complexity-oriented view of the chaotic forces that have produced widespread economic prosperity.
ID# 8496 -- 8496 -- Slouching Towards Utopia -- A review of an important new book, "Slouching Towards Utopia," that offers a complexity-oriented view of the chaotic forces that have produced widespread economic prosperity.
ID# 8500 -- 8500 -- Jean-Jacques Subrenat: Democracy 2.0, A Call for Awareness and Action -- A retired French diplomat looks with outside eyes at U.S. democracy and suggests that it is in serious need of an update, as U.S. institutions cannot cope with current conditions.
ID# 8503 -- 8503 -- The Rise of Political Violence in the United States -- An exhaustive analysis of recent trends in political violence in the United States – violence that, thankfully, is still far below what the US experienced in the 1960s and early 1970s.
ID# 8503 -- 8503 -- The Rise of Political Violence in the United States -- An exhaustive analysis of recent trends in political violence in the United States – violence that, thankfully, is still far below what the US experienced in the 1960s and early 1970s.
ID# 8503 -- 8503 -- The Rise of Political Violence in the United States -- An exhaustive analysis of recent trends in political violence in the United States – violence that, thankfully, is still far below what the US experienced in the 1960s and early 1970s.
ID# 8505 -- 8505 -- The Most Consequential First Amendment Case This Term -- An enlightening look at the issues the Supreme Court is considering in 303 Creative v. Elenis and the possibility that the government will increasingly be able to tell us what we can and can't say.
ID# 8505 -- 8505 -- The Most Consequential First Amendment Case This Term -- An enlightening look at the issues the Supreme Court is considering in 303 Creative v. Elenis and the possibility that the government will increasingly be able to tell us what we can and can't say.
ID# 8509 -- 8509 -- Enough about democracy’s weaknesses. Let’s talk about its strengths. -- Amid our continuing frustrations with chaotic democratic systems that repeatedly fail to live up to their ideals, a welcome look at democracy's strengths and its advantages over authoritarianism.
ID# 8513 -- 8513 -- The People Cheering for Humanity's End -- Truly terrifying news that, rather than appreciating the wonders of the modern world and applying themselves to the task making it better, people are giving up on the human enterprise altogether.
ID# 8514 -- 8514 -- Review of Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America -- An in-depth review and summary of an important new book exploring the complex, bewildering, and often indefensible mechanics underlying many programs designed to correct racial disparities.
ID# 8517 -- 8517 -- Harvard, Herschel Walker and ‘Tokenism’ -- A thought-provoking essay on racism, strategies for opposing it, and the multi-faceted issue of "tokenism."
ID# 8521 -- 8521 -- Life in the Metaverse -- For those who can't quite wrap their mind around Zuckerberg's vision of the metaverse, an especially clear statement of what it is, its promise, and the danger it could pose to our future.
ID# 8528 -- 8528 -- The Curriculum Wars Are Based On An Illusion -- Reassuring news from a major new survey -- Americans are actually in surprising agreement on what schools should and should not teach about US history.
ID# 8537 -- 8537 -- Do ‘Ordinary’ People Commit War Crimes? -- Evidence that, under sufficiently terrible circumstances, normal people can commit unspeakable atrocities and another reason why we have to prevent such circumstances.
ID# 8539 -- 8539 -- Global Civil Society in a Geopolitical Age: How Great Power Competition Is Reshaping Civic Activism -- A major inquiry into an alarming threat -- major geopolitical actors who are trying (often in clandestine ways) to get civil society organizations to help them pursue their goals.
ID# 8539 -- 8539 -- Global Civil Society in a Geopolitical Age: How Great Power Competition Is Reshaping Civic Activism -- A major inquiry into an alarming threat -- major geopolitical actors who are trying (often in clandestine ways) to get civil society organizations to help them pursue their goals.
ID# 8549 -- 8549 -- Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own -- From the Harvard Crimson, an irreverent look at the administrative bloat that has led to skyrocketing college costs and profound changes in the nature of higher education.
ID# 8552 -- 8552 -- When Was the Last Successful Revolution? -- At a time of widespread protest in China, Iran, and (perhaps, under the surface) Russia, a sobering look at how rarely revolutionary uprising actually succeed (and why authoritarianism must be avoided).
ID# 8552 -- 8552 -- When Was the Last Successful Revolution? -- At a time of widespread protest in China, Iran, and (perhaps, under the surface) Russia, a sobering look at how rarely revolutionary uprising actually succeed (and why authoritarianism must be avoided).
ID# 8554 -- 8554 -- How Do They Know This? -- A review and brief overview of an important new book -- a primer on what everybody ought to know about statistics and how not to be misled by them.
ID# 8554 -- 8554 -- How Do They Know This? -- A review and brief overview of an important new book -- a primer on what everybody ought to know about statistics and how not to be misled by them.
ID# 8554 -- 8554 -- How Do They Know This? -- A review and brief overview of an important new book -- a primer on what everybody ought to know about statistics and how not to be misled by them.
ID# 8555 -- 8555 -- Brute Physical Facts and Social Construction -- A provocative exploration of the different ways in which progressives and traditionalists see the world (and the relationship between the resulting worldviews and objective reality).
ID# 8558 -- 8558 -- Are Local Politics Extinct? -- A look at a less widely recognized threat to democracy -- the nationalization of politics and a corresponding deterioration in the ability of local communities to make their own decisions.
ID# 8559 -- 8559 -- The Global Zeitenwende -- How to Avoid a New Cold War in a Multipolar Era -- For those of us who lived through the first Cold War, there are few (if any) priorities more important than avoiding another Cold War. Ideas on how to do this.
ID# 8561 -- 8561 -- Meta’s Proposed Reforms Are Significant -- From Facebook, hopeful news that there are at least some serious and promising ideas for promoting more constructive online interactions.
ID# 8561 -- 8561 -- Meta’s Proposed Reforms Are Significant -- From Facebook, hopeful news that there are at least some serious and promising ideas for promoting more constructive online interactions.
ID# 8561 -- 8561 -- Meta’s Proposed Reforms Are Significant -- From Facebook, hopeful news that there are at least some serious and promising ideas for promoting more constructive online interactions.
ID# 8576 -- 8576 -- Compassionate Humanity Community -- An emerging network of people working to build movements dedicated to serving humanity, the environment, and life. Reducing conflict and fostering collaboration are tools advocated to achieve these goals.
ID# 8576 -- 8576 -- Compassionate Humanity Community -- An emerging network of people working to build movements dedicated to serving humanity, the environment, and life. Reducing conflict and fostering collaboration are tools advocated to achieve these goals.
ID# 8577 -- 8577 -- Urban Rural Action -- UR Action brings together Americans across divides to tackle our nation's most urgent challenges. They focus on building relationships by solving problems together in all 50 states.
ID# 8577 -- 8577 -- Urban Rural Action -- UR Action brings together Americans across divides to tackle our nation's most urgent challenges. They focus on building relationships by solving problems together in all 50 states.
ID# 8578 -- 8578 -- We are Not Divided: Reasons to Be Cheerful Project -- A good news media outlook posting stories about people using collaboration and other conflict resolution strategies to come together to solve problems.
ID# 8578 -- 8578 -- We are Not Divided: Reasons to Be Cheerful Project -- A good news media outlook posting stories about people using collaboration and other conflict resolution strategies to come together to solve problems.
ID# 8578 -- 8578 -- We are Not Divided: Reasons to Be Cheerful Project -- A good news media outlook posting stories about people using collaboration and other conflict resolution strategies to come together to solve problems.
ID# 8580 -- 8580 -- Building Bridges Without a Foundation for Peace Won’t Work -- An article comparing different bridge-building strategies and the goals of negative peace versus positive peace. Just getting people to "talk nicely" isn't nearly enough to solve our problems.
ID# 8580 -- 8580 -- Building Bridges Without a Foundation for Peace Won’t Work -- An article comparing different bridge-building strategies and the goals of negative peace versus positive peace. Just getting people to "talk nicely" isn't nearly enough to solve our problems.
ID# 8581 -- 8581 -- The Flip Side -- Sharing thoughtful news stories from the left, right, and middle on a variety of issues--emailed once per day.
ID# 8581 -- 8581 -- The Flip Side -- Sharing thoughtful news stories from the left, right, and middle on a variety of issues--emailed once per day.
ID# 8582 -- 8582 -- All Sides -- AllSides is a media solutions company that strengthens our democratic society with balanced news, media bias ratings, diverse perspectives, and real conversation.
ID# 8582 -- 8582 -- All Sides -- AllSides is a media solutions company that strengthens our democratic society with balanced news, media bias ratings, diverse perspectives, and real conversation.
ID# 8582 -- 8582 -- All Sides -- AllSides is a media solutions company that strengthens our democratic society with balanced news, media bias ratings, diverse perspectives, and real conversation.
ID# 8582 -- 8582 -- All Sides -- AllSides is a media solutions company that strengthens our democratic society with balanced news, media bias ratings, diverse perspectives, and real conversation.
ID# 8583 -- 8583 -- More in Common -- More in Common works on both short and longer term initiatives to understand and address the underlying drivers of fracturing and polarization, and build more united, resilient and inclusive societies.
ID# 8583 -- 8583 -- More in Common -- More in Common works on both short and longer term initiatives to understand and address the underlying drivers of fracturing and polarization, and build more united, resilient and inclusive societies.
ID# 8583 -- 8583 -- More in Common -- More in Common works on both short and longer term initiatives to understand and address the underlying drivers of fracturing and polarization, and build more united, resilient and inclusive societies.
ID# 8583 -- 8583 -- More in Common -- More in Common works on both short and longer term initiatives to understand and address the underlying drivers of fracturing and polarization, and build more united, resilient and inclusive societies.
ID# 8584 -- 8584 -- America's Divided Mind -- New insights from Beyond Conflict about how polarization is fueled by Americans’ misperceptions about each other, and how we can start to reverse it.
ID# 8584 -- 8584 -- America's Divided Mind -- New insights from Beyond Conflict about how polarization is fueled by Americans’ misperceptions about each other, and how we can start to reverse it.
ID# 8599 -- 8599 -- Evil Clowns and Cowardly Lions -- A look at two types of people who, in often unrecognized and unopposed ways, threaten democracy.
ID# 8601 -- 8601 -- America’s No-Majority Future Is Going to be Delicious -- A hopeful image of what the diverse society that we are evolving toward could actually look like.
ID# 8603 -- 8603 -- Conservatism in an Era Of Populist Revolt -- An enlightening explanation of the core beliefs underlying true conservatism and a look at the wide gulf that separates these beliefs from prevailing, right-leaning politics.
ID# 8609 -- 8609 -- The midterms should be a stake through the heart of the mobilization myth -- An argument that the 2022 election further proves that base mobilization politics (with its extreme positions and hate-mongering) doesn't work.
ID# 8615 -- 8615 -- The End of the New Peace -- One of history's great accomplishments has been the expansion of Boulding's regions of stable peace (places where nobody considers war a serious possibility). With Ukraine, that peace is now in jeopardy.
ID# 8620 -- 8620 -- The Woman Who Made Online Dating Into a ‘Science’ -- A look at the origins of one of the most dramatic changes in the way we form our most important and most personal relationships.
ID# 8622 -- 8622 -- Trump Struggles, but America Is Still Feverish -- A reminder that the profound social problems that contributed to President Trump's success persist even though his political fortunes may be waning.
ID# 8627 -- 8627 -- U.S. Extreme Weather in 2022 -- An extensive and long-term look at statistics on the incidence of different types of bad weather that makes it clear that it's not all climate change and that disaster preparedness is essential.
ID# 8627 -- 8627 -- U.S. Extreme Weather in 2022 -- An extensive and long-term look at statistics on the incidence of different types of bad weather that makes it clear that it's not all climate change and that disaster preparedness is essential.
ID# 8628 -- 8628 -- The ‘Twitter Files’ Show It’s Time to Reimagine Free Speech Online -- Especially informed and thoughtful reflections on the "Twitter Files," freedom of speech, the First Amendment, public policy, and social media.
ID# 8628 -- 8628 -- The ‘Twitter Files’ Show It’s Time to Reimagine Free Speech Online -- Especially informed and thoughtful reflections on the "Twitter Files," freedom of speech, the First Amendment, public policy, and social media.
ID# 8632 -- 8632 -- Why the ‘Smart’ Party Never Learns -- Increasingly, the left is the party of the more educated and the right is the party of the less educated. Reflections on how the resulting arrogance is undermining the left's ability to learn.
ID# 8634 -- 8634 -- American Bar Association's Corerstones of Democracy Conversations Guide -- The cornerstones are civics, civility, and collaboration, and this conversation guide helps lawyers (and others) as they work to strengthen all three.
ID# 8634 -- 8634 -- American Bar Association's Corerstones of Democracy Conversations Guide -- The cornerstones are civics, civility, and collaboration, and this conversation guide helps lawyers (and others) as they work to strengthen all three.
ID# 8634 -- 8634 -- American Bar Association's Corerstones of Democracy Conversations Guide -- The cornerstones are civics, civility, and collaboration, and this conversation guide helps lawyers (and others) as they work to strengthen all three.
ID# 8636 -- 8636 -- Democracy Innovation -- Working to understand, test, and disseminate innovations that can make democracy more participatory, equitable, and productive with a focus on scale, redesign of the civic infrastructure, and measurement.
ID# 8636 -- 8636 -- Democracy Innovation -- Working to understand, test, and disseminate innovations that can make democracy more participatory, equitable, and productive with a focus on scale, redesign of the civic infrastructure, and measurement.
ID# 8637 -- 8637 -- National Conference on Citizenship's Civic Health Index -- NCoC has created an index of civic health, while simultaneously working with local partners to strengthen the health of communities nationwide to better define and address local problems.
ID# 8637 -- 8637 -- National Conference on Citizenship's Civic Health Index -- NCoC has created an index of civic health, while simultaneously working with local partners to strengthen the health of communities nationwide to better define and address local problems.
ID# 8641 -- 8641 -- Crossing the Divide -- A set of videos highlighting "incredible individuals" who are pioneering new ways to connect with those on opposing sides in the world's "most intense religious, political, and societal conflicts."
ID# 8641 -- 8641 -- Crossing the Divide -- A set of videos highlighting "incredible individuals" who are pioneering new ways to connect with those on opposing sides in the world's "most intense religious, political, and societal conflicts."
ID# 8642 -- 8642 -- What’s your ‘red line’? | Jonathan Haidt with Mónica Guzmán -- Does engaging bad ideas across the divide make you a bad person? Renowned psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt talks with Monica Guzman in this Braver Angels video.
ID# 8642 -- 8642 -- What’s your ‘red line’? | Jonathan Haidt with Mónica Guzmán -- Does engaging bad ideas across the divide make you a bad person? Renowned psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt talks with Monica Guzman in this Braver Angels video.
ID# 8643 -- 8643 -- Braver Angels Media -- Braver Angels' work is about building civic trust in the USA, healing the wounds between left and right. This video series highlights the stories of the people doing this work.
ID# 8643 -- 8643 -- Braver Angels Media -- Braver Angels' work is about building civic trust in the USA, healing the wounds between left and right. This video series highlights the stories of the people doing this work.
ID# 8644 -- 8644 -- Livingroom Conversations Resources -- We've highlighted LRC before, but haven't focused on their excellent resources for the times we get together with family and friends.
ID# 8644 -- 8644 -- Livingroom Conversations Resources -- We've highlighted LRC before, but haven't focused on their excellent resources for the times we get together with family and friends.
ID# 8644 -- 8644 -- Livingroom Conversations Resources -- We've highlighted LRC before, but haven't focused on their excellent resources for the times we get together with family and friends.
ID# 8645 -- 8645 -- Constructive Dialogue Institute -- CDI seeks to repair our civic culture by spreading the practices of curiosity, critical thinking, and constructive dialogue across our nation’s education systems and workplaces.
ID# 8645 -- 8645 -- Constructive Dialogue Institute -- CDI seeks to repair our civic culture by spreading the practices of curiosity, critical thinking, and constructive dialogue across our nation’s education systems and workplaces.
ID# 8646 -- 8646 -- How to Defuse a Classroom Conflict: Make It More Complex -- Five practices to help students break through all the binary thinking: setting norms, establishing trust, foster complex thinking, model constructive behaviors, and grounding discussions in personal stories.
ID# 8646 -- 8646 -- How to Defuse a Classroom Conflict: Make It More Complex -- Five practices to help students break through all the binary thinking: setting norms, establishing trust, foster complex thinking, model constructive behaviors, and grounding discussions in personal stories.
ID# 8647 -- 8647 -- National Issues Forum -- A nonpartisan organization that promotes public deliberation about difficult public issues, publishes issue guides, and promotes collaboration throughout its large network.
ID# 8647 -- 8647 -- National Issues Forum -- A nonpartisan organization that promotes public deliberation about difficult public issues, publishes issue guides, and promotes collaboration throughout its large network.
ID# 8649 -- 8649 -- National Issues Forum's Issue Guides -- On policing, elections, COVID vaccines, immigration, and lots of other controversial issues.
ID# 8649 -- 8649 -- National Issues Forum's Issue Guides -- On policing, elections, COVID vaccines, immigration, and lots of other controversial issues.
ID# 8650 -- 8650 -- ABA Cornerstones of Democracy: Civics, Civility and Collaboration Commission -- ABA’s Cornerstones of Democracy Conversation Guide to learn how to engage members in your community in civil conversations on critical issues.
ID# 8650 -- 8650 -- ABA Cornerstones of Democracy: Civics, Civility and Collaboration Commission -- ABA’s Cornerstones of Democracy Conversation Guide to learn how to engage members in your community in civil conversations on critical issues.
ID# 8650 -- 8650 -- ABA Cornerstones of Democracy: Civics, Civility and Collaboration Commission -- ABA’s Cornerstones of Democracy Conversation Guide to learn how to engage members in your community in civil conversations on critical issues.
ID# 8650 -- 8650 -- ABA Cornerstones of Democracy: Civics, Civility and Collaboration Commission -- ABA’s Cornerstones of Democracy Conversation Guide to learn how to engage members in your community in civil conversations on critical issues.
ID# 8654 -- 8654 -- Confronting Controversial Issues in the Classroom -- Discussions of controversial issues are frequently prescribed by theorists, professors, and civic organizations, but most school systems are reluctant. Here's how to do it well.
ID# 8654 -- 8654 -- Confronting Controversial Issues in the Classroom -- Discussions of controversial issues are frequently prescribed by theorists, professors, and civic organizations, but most school systems are reluctant. Here's how to do it well.
ID# 8655 -- 8655 -- Establishing Conversation Norms and Defusing Conflict -- The key to any productive public, civil conversation is ensuring all participants follow a set of expectations and norms. Here's a suggested list of norms to follow.
ID# 8655 -- 8655 -- Establishing Conversation Norms and Defusing Conflict -- The key to any productive public, civil conversation is ensuring all participants follow a set of expectations and norms. Here's a suggested list of norms to follow.
ID# 8658 -- 8658 -- Civics Renewal Network -- The Civics Renewal Network is an alliance of 37 nonprofit, nonpartisan organizations that provide free online classroom resources for civics education.
ID# 8658 -- 8658 -- Civics Renewal Network -- The Civics Renewal Network is an alliance of 37 nonprofit, nonpartisan organizations that provide free online classroom resources for civics education.
ID# 8659 -- 8659 -- CivXNow -- A national cross-partisan coalition of over 260 organizations focused on improving our nation’s K-12 in and out-of-school civic education.
ID# 8659 -- 8659 -- CivXNow -- A national cross-partisan coalition of over 260 organizations focused on improving our nation’s K-12 in and out-of-school civic education.
ID# 8659 -- 8659 -- CivXNow -- A national cross-partisan coalition of over 260 organizations focused on improving our nation’s K-12 in and out-of-school civic education.
ID# 8660 -- 8660 -- Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy -- This initiative brings together America’s leading constitutional scholars and thought leaders of diverse perspectives to identify reforms that could preserve the institutional guardrails on which democracy depends.
ID# 8660 -- 8660 -- Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy -- This initiative brings together America’s leading constitutional scholars and thought leaders of diverse perspectives to identify reforms that could preserve the institutional guardrails on which democracy depends.
ID# 8660 -- 8660 -- Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy -- This initiative brings together America’s leading constitutional scholars and thought leaders of diverse perspectives to identify reforms that could preserve the institutional guardrails on which democracy depends.
ID# 8660 -- 8660 -- Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy -- This initiative brings together America’s leading constitutional scholars and thought leaders of diverse perspectives to identify reforms that could preserve the institutional guardrails on which democracy depends.
ID# 8671 -- 8671 -- Labor’s Lost -- For anyone concerned about the plight of the "working classes," a first-rate exploration of what everyone ought to know about the factors driving contemporary inequities.
ID# 8679 -- 8679 -- Transgender Athletes are Winning -- Amid all of the sound and fury surrounding the conflict over transgender athletes, an account of how we are quietly coming to a reasonable set of compromises.
ID# 8687 -- 8687 -- The rise and fall of peer review -- For those who recognize the critical importance of rigorous scientific research, an account of how badly the existing, peer review-based system is failing. Fixing this ought to be a top priority.
ID# 8690 -- 8690 -- A Judicial Coup in North Carolina -- 0
ID# 8701 -- 8701 -- Vetocracy and Climate Adaptation -- An account of one particularly important instance in which giving people too much power to block things that they don't like can threaten the welfare of society as a whole.
ID# 8703 -- 8703 -- What Really Saved the Democrats This Year? -- An excellent review of the latest analyses of the 2022 election with real insight into the strategies that generate broad public support.
ID# 8708 -- 8708 -- Actually, Color-Blindness Isn’t Racist -- A controversial but especially clear and persuasive critique of the current generation of antiracism programs and a defense of the kind of color-blindness advocated by people like Thurgood Marshall.
ID# 8713 -- 8713 -- The Americanization of Religion -- For a society plagued by culture wars and religious conflicts, an analysis of the changing character of religion in US society.
ID# 8731 -- 8731 -- This man wants Utah and other states to adopt a “pro-human” approach to teaching ethnic studies -- From the founder of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, an in-depth interview and ideas about how to structure Utah's new ethnic studies classes in ways that will be broadly supported.
ID# 8738 -- 8738 -- Secret Congress delivers more good news on clean water -- For a media environment dominated by stories of political dysfunction, a good news account of how (with bipartisan support) we have been making major strides toward reducing water pollution.
ID# 8743 -- 8743 -- Politics and the English Language, 2023 -- Starting with George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language," a critique of some of the ways in which the left deceptively uses language to advance its agenda.
ID# 8743 -- 8743 -- Politics and the English Language, 2023 -- Starting with George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language," a critique of some of the ways in which the left deceptively uses language to advance its agenda.
ID# 8754 -- 8754 -- Eco-Authoritarianism -- 0
ID# 8756 -- 8756 -- Critical Thinking, Reverential Thinking, and Lashing Out -- A critical look at critical thinking programs along with ideas about what critical thinking should be and how we can really cultivate it.
ID# 8760 -- 8760 -- Rebalancing the Gender Narrative -- A review of Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It by Richard V. Reeve
ID# 8766 -- 8766 -- Launching a Third Party Takes More Than Good Intentions -- A friendly critique of the Forward Party and its efforts to offer voters a moderate alternative to the "us-vs-them" politics that dominates the two major parties with lots of ideas about what it takes to be successful.
ID# 8767 -- 8767 -- Activism and Apathy Are Poisoning American Politics -- A look at the dangers of a political system that focuses so much of its attention on its angriest citizens -- those that are convinced that the other side's views are wholly illegitimate..
ID# 8779 -- 8779 -- There Is No Right Side of History -- A welcome critique of the overused claim that "history is on our side." History is not inevitable, it's what we make of it and, besides, there is no absolutely and universally right set of beliefs.
ID# 8781 -- 8781 -- The U.S. Government’s Woke Training -- Amid all the heated rhetoric about the virtues and vices of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, a rare chance (thanks to a FOIA request) to actually see the materials being used in these programs.
ID# 8789 -- 8789 -- America’s True Divide: Pluralists vs. Zealots -- A perceptive look at what is arguably a more important political divide -- one that separates those who are absolutely convinced that their side is in the right and those who see value in reconciling competing perspectives and insights.
ID# 8793 -- 8793 -- The Problem with Primaries -- An analysis of the many ways in which the structure of US primary elections is intensifying divisions and undermining democratic institutions despite being superficially more democratic. And, some proposed remedies.
ID# 8798 -- 8798 -- A Love Letter to America -- An honest and affectionate look at what makes US society and its democratic institutions something to celebrate and nurture despite their deep flaws -- flaws that are deeply intertwined with its virtues.
ID# 8799 -- 8799 -- Upward Mobility Is Alive and Well in America -- Encouraging news that, despite our many problems and worries, we are continuing to fulfill the American dream of intergenerational upward mobility.
ID# 8806 -- 8806 -- How ChatGPT actually works -- Amid the many reasonable and exaggerated worries about ChatGPT and the dangers that it may or may not pose to society, a challenging and illuminating, explanation of what, exactly, it does and how it works.
ID# 8806 -- 8806 -- How ChatGPT actually works -- Amid the many reasonable and exaggerated worries about ChatGPT and the dangers that it may or may not pose to society, a challenging and illuminating, explanation of what, exactly, it does and how it works.
ID# 8815 -- 8815 -- Why Some Students Are Skipping College -- Even stronger reason to really do something about the continuing and rapid increases in the cost of higher education -- it is solidifying the class divide by locking ever more students out of the chance to develop their talents.
ID# 8822 -- 8822 -- From Spontaneous Order to Ordered Spontaneity -- From Jonathan Rauch, thought-provoking reflections on how his view of the complex system that is modern democracy has evolved.
ID# 8822 -- 8822 -- From Spontaneous Order to Ordered Spontaneity -- From Jonathan Rauch, thought-provoking reflections on how his view of the complex system that is modern democracy has evolved.
ID# 8823 -- 8823 -- In Search of Authority -- A thought-provoking exploration of the nature of "authority," what determines whether it is trusted and trustworthy, and what happens to society's ability to work together for the common good when it collapses.
ID# 8829 -- 8829 -- Reason To Believe -- How and why irrationality takes hold, and what do to about it. -- An in-depth look at the role that rational thought plays in human society, how it has made us so successful, and the many dynamics that are undermining our ability to think (and deal with conflict) in rational ways .
ID# 8829 -- 8829 -- Reason To Believe -- How and why irrationality takes hold, and what do to about it. -- An in-depth look at the role that rational thought plays in human society, how it has made us so successful, and the many dynamics that are undermining our ability to think (and deal with conflict) in rational ways .
ID# 8830 -- 8830 -- Lessons for the Next War -- The continuing horror and destruction in Ukraine is just the latest reminder of why developing and pursuing realistic strategies for avoiding war ought to be near the top of our priority list. As we think about this, here are some ideas to consider.
ID# 8836 -- 8836 -- Fables of the Deconstruction -- A lighter and very illuminating inquiry into the many ways in which our society discriminates against left-handers (with important lessons about what we should and shouldn't be doing to help all disadvantaged groups).
ID# 8848 -- 8848 -- A Report From the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference -- A welcome report about a conference focused on helping universities refocus on their core mission – the promotion of the "critical inquiry and scholarly debate that produces true knowledge."
ID# 8856 -- 8856 -- The Consolidation-Disruption Index Is Alarming -- A critical look at the world of academic publishing that tries to understand why it is generating so few of the bright ideas that we need to meet today's big challenges.
ID# 8857 -- 8857 -- The Uncomfortable Truths That Could Yet Defeat Fascism -- An essay from the author of "The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy" that explores ways of reaching those who are turning away from democracy.
ID# 8865 -- 8865 -- America Is on the Right Track -- One of the most encouraging and uplifting essays I've read in a long time. It asks us to put aside our worst-case cognitive biases and look at the bigger picture -- one that is far more positive.
ID# 8874 -- 8874 -- Martin Luther King Would Choose Reflection Over ‘Intersectionality’ -- For those trying to understand what Martin Luther King would have to say about our troubled times, an essay emphasizing his beliefs about the importance of personal reflection.
ID# 8890 -- 8890 -- Free speech or out of order? As meetings grow wild, officials try to tame public comment. -- 0
ID# 8890 -- 8890 -- Free speech or out of order? As meetings grow wild, officials try to tame public comment. -- 0
ID# 8894 -- 8894 -- Mixed Feelings Can Be Worse Than Bad Ones -- More insight into the incredible complexities of human psychology. This one looks at the nature of our internal conflicts and what happens when we can't decide what to believe and what to do.
ID# 8903 -- 8903 -- How ChatGPT Will Destabilize White-Collar Work -- Reflections on what could easily become a highly disruptive new technology. We need to figure out how to use AI to help us solve problems while also preserving rewarding employment opportunities.
ID# 8904 -- 8904 -- What the Longest Study on Human Happiness Found Is the Key to a Good Life -- An update on a major effort to understand the factors that contribute to our most complex, important, and elusive social objective -- human happiness.
ID# 8904 -- 8904 -- What the Longest Study on Human Happiness Found Is the Key to a Good Life -- An update on a major effort to understand the factors that contribute to our most complex, important, and elusive social objective -- human happiness.
ID# 8904 -- 8904 -- What the Longest Study on Human Happiness Found Is the Key to a Good Life -- An update on a major effort to understand the factors that contribute to our most complex, important, and elusive social objective -- human happiness.
ID# 8912 -- 8912 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding vs. Massively Parallel Partisanship -- As we work to build a massively parallel peacebuilding movement to limit hyper-polarization and protect democracy, we must be aware of other, more partisan massively parallel movements that are deepening our divisions.
ID# 8912 -- 8912 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding vs. Massively Parallel Partisanship -- As we work to build a massively parallel peacebuilding movement to limit hyper-polarization and protect democracy, we must be aware of other, more partisan massively parallel movements that are deepening our divisions.
ID# 8913 -- 8913 -- Revisiting the Gun Violence Issue and America's Declining Trust and Increasing Sense of Threat -- A look at what we know about reducing the mutual hostility (associated with escalation and hyper-polarization dynamics) that contributes so much to mass shootings, gun deaths, and interpersonal and political violence.
ID# 8913 -- 8913 -- Revisiting the Gun Violence Issue and America's Declining Trust and Increasing Sense of Threat -- A look at what we know about reducing the mutual hostility (associated with escalation and hyper-polarization dynamics) that contributes so much to mass shootings, gun deaths, and interpersonal and political violence.
ID# 8913 -- 8913 -- Revisiting the Gun Violence Issue and America's Declining Trust and Increasing Sense of Threat -- A look at what we know about reducing the mutual hostility (associated with escalation and hyper-polarization dynamics) that contributes so much to mass shootings, gun deaths, and interpersonal and political violence.
ID# 8914 -- 8914 -- Could Massively Parallel Processes Make Hyper-Polarization Worse? -- Bad-faith actors can and do use a massively parallel strategy to drive us apart. But that doesn't mean that the strategy is bad -- it means that it is effective. Good-faith actors need to learn how to use similar techniques to bring us together.
ID# 8914 -- 8914 -- Could Massively Parallel Processes Make Hyper-Polarization Worse? -- Bad-faith actors can and do use a massively parallel strategy to drive us apart. But that doesn't mean that the strategy is bad -- it means that it is effective. Good-faith actors need to learn how to use similar techniques to bring us together.
ID# 8914 -- 8914 -- Could Massively Parallel Processes Make Hyper-Polarization Worse? -- Bad-faith actors can and do use a massively parallel strategy to drive us apart. But that doesn't mean that the strategy is bad -- it means that it is effective. Good-faith actors need to learn how to use similar techniques to bring us together.
ID# 8915 -- 8915 -- Constructive Confrontation: Applying Conflict Insights from a 1st Party (Not 3rd Party) Perspective -- Constructive confrontation applies conflict resolution theory and practice to advocacy efforts in an effort to help people limit pushback and better defend their interests.
ID# 8915 -- 8915 -- Constructive Confrontation: Applying Conflict Insights from a 1st Party (Not 3rd Party) Perspective -- Constructive confrontation applies conflict resolution theory and practice to advocacy efforts in an effort to help people limit pushback and better defend their interests.
ID# 8917 -- 8917 -- Carol Pauli's "The 'End' of Neutrality: Tumultuous Times Require a Deeper Value" -- Pauli asserts that neutrality is an "unsatisfying value" for both journalists and mediators in our current conflicted times, and might be better replaced with a fundamental reliance on human dignity of every person.
ID# 8917 -- 8917 -- Carol Pauli's "The 'End' of Neutrality: Tumultuous Times Require a Deeper Value" -- Pauli asserts that neutrality is an "unsatisfying value" for both journalists and mediators in our current conflicted times, and might be better replaced with a fundamental reliance on human dignity of every person.
ID# 8917 -- 8917 -- Carol Pauli's "The 'End' of Neutrality: Tumultuous Times Require a Deeper Value" -- Pauli asserts that neutrality is an "unsatisfying value" for both journalists and mediators in our current conflicted times, and might be better replaced with a fundamental reliance on human dignity of every person.
ID# 8918 -- 8918 -- The Trust Network: An Example of Massively Parallel Peacebuilding in Action -- The Trust Network is an "if it exists, it must be possible" example of massively parallel peacebuilding. We are writing about it. They are doing it!
ID# 8918 -- 8918 -- The Trust Network: An Example of Massively Parallel Peacebuilding in Action -- The Trust Network is an "if it exists, it must be possible" example of massively parallel peacebuilding. We are writing about it. They are doing it!
ID# 8918 -- 8918 -- The Trust Network: An Example of Massively Parallel Peacebuilding in Action -- The Trust Network is an "if it exists, it must be possible" example of massively parallel peacebuilding. We are writing about it. They are doing it!
ID# 8921 -- 8921 -- Core And Overlaying Issues -- Conflicts are never simple us-versus-them. By sorting out the core and overlaying factors, disputants can come to a much clearer understanding of what needs to be done to transform their conflicts.
ID# 8921 -- 8921 -- Core And Overlaying Issues -- Conflicts are never simple us-versus-them. By sorting out the core and overlaying factors, disputants can come to a much clearer understanding of what needs to be done to transform their conflicts.
ID# 8921 -- 8921 -- Core And Overlaying Issues -- Conflicts are never simple us-versus-them. By sorting out the core and overlaying factors, disputants can come to a much clearer understanding of what needs to be done to transform their conflicts.
ID# 8922 -- 8922 -- Peace is My Day Job -- Working for peace can be a primary job. Figure out your passions, your talents, talk with people, and together develop a path to pursue your dreams and make the world a better place at the same time!
ID# 8922 -- 8922 -- Peace is My Day Job -- Working for peace can be a primary job. Figure out your passions, your talents, talk with people, and together develop a path to pursue your dreams and make the world a better place at the same time!
ID# 8924 -- 8924 -- Massively Circular Hyper-Polarization -- Complex social systems are made up of multiple interlocking negative and positive feedback loops that can, for good or ill, lead to stability or to change. In order to improve the system, we need to understand these loops.
ID# 8924 -- 8924 -- Massively Circular Hyper-Polarization -- Complex social systems are made up of multiple interlocking negative and positive feedback loops that can, for good or ill, lead to stability or to change. In order to improve the system, we need to understand these loops.
ID# 8924 -- 8924 -- Massively Circular Hyper-Polarization -- Complex social systems are made up of multiple interlocking negative and positive feedback loops that can, for good or ill, lead to stability or to change. In order to improve the system, we need to understand these loops.
ID# 8925 -- 8925 -- Julia Roig Talks about Weaving a Healthy Democracy in the United States -- Julia Roig talks about her efforts to build a social movement to support democracy in the U.S. Such a movement needs to both block and build: block bad actors, and build a new pluralistic society that works.
ID# 8925 -- 8925 -- Julia Roig Talks about Weaving a Healthy Democracy in the United States -- Julia Roig talks about her efforts to build a social movement to support democracy in the U.S. Such a movement needs to both block and build: block bad actors, and build a new pluralistic society that works.
ID# 8925 -- 8925 -- Julia Roig Talks about Weaving a Healthy Democracy in the United States -- Julia Roig talks about her efforts to build a social movement to support democracy in the U.S. Such a movement needs to both block and build: block bad actors, and build a new pluralistic society that works.
ID# 8927 -- 8927 -- Focus on Contribution, Not Blame -- Focusing on blame doesn't solve problems, it just makes them more intractable. Focusing on contribution instead encourages collaborative problem solving that stands a much better chance of success.
ID# 8927 -- 8927 -- Focus on Contribution, Not Blame -- Focusing on blame doesn't solve problems, it just makes them more intractable. Focusing on contribution instead encourages collaborative problem solving that stands a much better chance of success.
ID# 8927 -- 8927 -- Focus on Contribution, Not Blame -- Focusing on blame doesn't solve problems, it just makes them more intractable. Focusing on contribution instead encourages collaborative problem solving that stands a much better chance of success.
ID# 8928 -- 8928 -- Urban Rural Action Frameworks -- ABCs of dialogue, problem trees and problem tree mapping are very simple, yet very useful tools for helping disputants better understand their conflict and decide how to approach it constructively.
ID# 8928 -- 8928 -- Urban Rural Action Frameworks -- ABCs of dialogue, problem trees and problem tree mapping are very simple, yet very useful tools for helping disputants better understand their conflict and decide how to approach it constructively.
ID# 8930 -- 8930 -- Sharp vs. Fuzzy Feedback — The Distinction That Explains Why Society Can Be Both Astonishingly Smart and Incredibly Stupid -- We are good at understanding and responding to sharp feedback, but not nearly as good at seeing and responding to fuzzy feedback, which is the source of many serious mistakes.
ID# 8930 -- 8930 -- Sharp vs. Fuzzy Feedback — The Distinction That Explains Why Society Can Be Both Astonishingly Smart and Incredibly Stupid -- We are good at understanding and responding to sharp feedback, but not nearly as good at seeing and responding to fuzzy feedback, which is the source of many serious mistakes.
ID# 8930 -- 8930 -- Sharp vs. Fuzzy Feedback — The Distinction That Explains Why Society Can Be Both Astonishingly Smart and Incredibly Stupid -- We are good at understanding and responding to sharp feedback, but not nearly as good at seeing and responding to fuzzy feedback, which is the source of many serious mistakes.
ID# 8930 -- 8930 -- Sharp vs. Fuzzy Feedback — The Distinction That Explains Why Society Can Be Both Astonishingly Smart and Incredibly Stupid -- We are good at understanding and responding to sharp feedback, but not nearly as good at seeing and responding to fuzzy feedback, which is the source of many serious mistakes.
ID# 8930 -- 8930 -- Sharp vs. Fuzzy Feedback — The Distinction That Explains Why Society Can Be Both Astonishingly Smart and Incredibly Stupid -- We are good at understanding and responding to sharp feedback, but not nearly as good at seeing and responding to fuzzy feedback, which is the source of many serious mistakes.
ID# 8932 -- 8932 -- Kevin Clements' "Authoritarian Populism and Atavistic Nationalism: 21st Century Challenges to Peacebuilding and Development" -- Are liberal, democratic capitalist states operating under the rule of law capable of meeting the economic, welfare, and identity needs of citizens in the 21st century? If not, what can?
ID# 8932 -- 8932 -- Kevin Clements' "Authoritarian Populism and Atavistic Nationalism: 21st Century Challenges to Peacebuilding and Development" -- Are liberal, democratic capitalist states operating under the rule of law capable of meeting the economic, welfare, and identity needs of citizens in the 21st century? If not, what can?
ID# 8932 -- 8932 -- Kevin Clements' "Authoritarian Populism and Atavistic Nationalism: 21st Century Challenges to Peacebuilding and Development" -- Are liberal, democratic capitalist states operating under the rule of law capable of meeting the economic, welfare, and identity needs of citizens in the 21st century? If not, what can?
ID# 8932 -- 8932 -- Kevin Clements' "Authoritarian Populism and Atavistic Nationalism: 21st Century Challenges to Peacebuilding and Development" -- Are liberal, democratic capitalist states operating under the rule of law capable of meeting the economic, welfare, and identity needs of citizens in the 21st century? If not, what can?
ID# 8933 -- 8933 -- Planning a Constructive Confrontation Strategy: Understanding the Relationship between Negotiation and Power -- Healthy conflict resolution systems rely primary on interest-based negotiations, using rights and power contests much less frequently. US democracy currently does the opposite.
ID# 8933 -- 8933 -- Planning a Constructive Confrontation Strategy: Understanding the Relationship between Negotiation and Power -- Healthy conflict resolution systems rely primary on interest-based negotiations, using rights and power contests much less frequently. US democracy currently does the opposite.
ID# 8933 -- 8933 -- Planning a Constructive Confrontation Strategy: Understanding the Relationship between Negotiation and Power -- Healthy conflict resolution systems rely primary on interest-based negotiations, using rights and power contests much less frequently. US democracy currently does the opposite.
ID# 8935 -- 8935 -- Rachel Kleinfeld's "Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy" -- US democracy is failing. Each moment deepens the polarization that makes its problems harder to fix. As Americans, we must start now, at scale, strategically, with a broad, cross-party coalition to save our democracy.
ID# 8935 -- 8935 -- Rachel Kleinfeld's "Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy" -- US democracy is failing. Each moment deepens the polarization that makes its problems harder to fix. As Americans, we must start now, at scale, strategically, with a broad, cross-party coalition to save our democracy.
ID# 8935 -- 8935 -- Rachel Kleinfeld's "Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy" -- US democracy is failing. Each moment deepens the polarization that makes its problems harder to fix. As Americans, we must start now, at scale, strategically, with a broad, cross-party coalition to save our democracy.
ID# 8936 -- 8936 -- Helena Desivilya Syna on The Paradox of Tolerance with a response from Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess -- Israel presents a dilemma for conflict resolvers: should one seek dialogue and compromise, or should one advocate and work for total victory without compromise because one side is so extreme?
ID# 8936 -- 8936 -- Helena Desivilya Syna on The Paradox of Tolerance with a response from Heidi Burgess and Guy Burgess -- Israel presents a dilemma for conflict resolvers: should one seek dialogue and compromise, or should one advocate and work for total victory without compromise because one side is so extreme?
ID# 8937 -- 8937 -- Julia Roig and James Savage: Exploring Narrative Practices for Broad-based Movements in Contexts of Democratic Decline -- The narratives we engage and deploy shape our world. In the face of rising authoritarianism, what stories and tactics drive collaboration within and between movements?
ID# 8937 -- 8937 -- Julia Roig and James Savage: Exploring Narrative Practices for Broad-based Movements in Contexts of Democratic Decline -- The narratives we engage and deploy shape our world. In the face of rising authoritarianism, what stories and tactics drive collaboration within and between movements?
ID# 8937 -- 8937 -- Julia Roig and James Savage: Exploring Narrative Practices for Broad-based Movements in Contexts of Democratic Decline -- The narratives we engage and deploy shape our world. In the face of rising authoritarianism, what stories and tactics drive collaboration within and between movements?
ID# 8939 -- 8939 -- Alan Yarborough: Getting to Meaning -- To better understand both others and even ourselves, we must dig deeper into the words and terms we use to ensure we are conveying precisely what we want to convey and nothing more.
ID# 8939 -- 8939 -- Alan Yarborough: Getting to Meaning -- To better understand both others and even ourselves, we must dig deeper into the words and terms we use to ensure we are conveying precisely what we want to convey and nothing more.
ID# 8940 -- 8940 -- The Power Strategy Mix — Empowering the Pursuit of the Common Good -- Power is not just force. It is the ability to get things done. And that usually is maximized by using integrative as well as exchange power to encourage collaboration whenever possible. Force should be reserved for the most extreme cases only.
ID# 8940 -- 8940 -- The Power Strategy Mix — Empowering the Pursuit of the Common Good -- Power is not just force. It is the ability to get things done. And that usually is maximized by using integrative as well as exchange power to encourage collaboration whenever possible. Force should be reserved for the most extreme cases only.
ID# 8941 -- 8941 -- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 22 -- Links to things that our colleagues are doing at places like Search for Common Ground, Renew America, the National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, as well as fifteen fascinating articles that help us understand the complexity of society-wide intractable conflict.
ID# 8942 -- 8942 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding vs. Massively Parallel Partisanship -- As we work to build a massively parallel peacebuilding movement to limit hyper-polarization and protect democracy, we must be aware of other, more partisan massively parallel movements that are deepening our divisions.
ID# 8943 -- 8943 -- Revisiting the Gun Violence Issue and America's Declining Trust and Increasing Sense of Threat -- A look at what we know about reducing the mutual hostility (associated with escalation and hyper-polarization dynamics) that contributes so much to mass shootings, gun deaths, and interpersonal and political violence.
ID# 8944 -- 8944 -- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of January 29 -- In addition to more links to interesting projects that our democracy, conflict, and peace colleagues are doing, recommended articles on political moderates, the lifetime insights of prominent social activists, ways of limiting done violence, and other topics.
ID# 8945 -- 8945 -- Could Massively Parallel Processes Make Hyper-Polarization Worse? -- Bad-faith actors can and do use a massively parallel strategy to drive us apart. But that doesn't mean that the strategy is bad -- it means that it is effective. Good-faith actors need to learn how to use similar techniques to bring us together.
ID# 8946 -- 8946 -- Constructive Confrontation: Applying Conflict Insights from a 1st Party (Not 3rd Party) Perspective -- Constructive confrontation applies conflict resolution theory and practice to advocacy efforts in an effort to help people limit pushback and better defend their interests.
ID# 8947 -- 8947 -- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 5 -- Our weekly collection of links to some of the things that our colleagues in conflict-related fields are doing to help defuse the hyper-polarization crisis plus links to articles from around the web that have helped us better understand the conflict's broader context.
ID# 8948 -- 8948 -- Carol Pauli's "The 'End' of Neutrality: Tumultuous Times Require a Deeper Value" -- Pauli asserts that neutrality is an "unsatisfying value" for both journalists and mediators in our current conflicted times, and might be better replaced with a fundamental reliance on human dignity of every person.
ID# 8949 -- 8949 -- The Trust Network: An Example of Massively Parallel Peacebuilding in Action -- The Trust Network is an "if it exists, it must be possible" example of massively parallel peacebuilding. We are writing about it. They are doing it!
ID# 8950 -- 8950 -- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of February 12 -- In addition to more links to interesting projects that our democracy, conflict, and peace colleagues are doing, recommended articles on on the fight over objectivity and many other topics.
ID# 8951 -- 8951 -- Core And Overlaying Issues -- Conflicts are never simple us-versus-them. By sorting out the core and overlaying factors, disputants can come to a much clearer understanding of what needs to be done to transform their conflicts.
ID# 8965 -- 8965 -- Rachel Kleinfeld's "Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy" -- US democracy is failing. Each moment deepens the polarization that makes its problems harder to fix. As Americans, we must start now, at scale, strategically, with a broad, cross-party coalition to save our democracy.
ID# 8971 -- 8971 -- Citizens' Assemblies: Democracy that Works -- A description of a new form of democracy in which a randomly selected group of citizens does an in-depth analysis of an issue, evaluates possible solutions, and then makes an informed decision.
ID# 8971 -- 8971 -- Citizens' Assemblies: Democracy that Works -- A description of a new form of democracy in which a randomly selected group of citizens does an in-depth analysis of an issue, evaluates possible solutions, and then makes an informed decision.
ID# 8971 -- 8971 -- Citizens' Assemblies: Democracy that Works -- A description of a new form of democracy in which a randomly selected group of citizens does an in-depth analysis of an issue, evaluates possible solutions, and then makes an informed decision.
ID# 8973 -- 8973 -- Rise of American Radicalism: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly -- A Renew America Foundation study of extremist candidates running for public office in 2022.
ID# 8973 -- 8973 -- Rise of American Radicalism: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly -- A Renew America Foundation study of extremist candidates running for public office in 2022.
ID# 8975 -- 8975 -- Rebound in Confidence: American Democracy and the 2022 Midterm Elections -- A report from Bright Line Watch that found that public confidence in the American election processes improved after the November 2022 midterm elections.
ID# 8975 -- 8975 -- Rebound in Confidence: American Democracy and the 2022 Midterm Elections -- A report from Bright Line Watch that found that public confidence in the American election processes improved after the November 2022 midterm elections.
ID# 8977 -- 8977 -- Designing Tech for Social Cohesion -- A Search For Common Ground conference, exploring how tech design and algorithms can promote pro-social content, instead of divisive content. Feb 23-25 in San Francisco and online.
ID# 8977 -- 8977 -- Designing Tech for Social Cohesion -- A Search For Common Ground conference, exploring how tech design and algorithms can promote pro-social content, instead of divisive content. Feb 23-25 in San Francisco and online.
ID# 8978 -- 8978 -- Council on Technology and Social Cohesion -- Social cohesion is the glue that hold society together -- particularly in the face of toxic polarization. We need technology that builds trust and civic health rather than outrage and division
ID# 8978 -- 8978 -- Council on Technology and Social Cohesion -- Social cohesion is the glue that hold society together -- particularly in the face of toxic polarization. We need technology that builds trust and civic health rather than outrage and division
ID# 8979 -- 8979 -- More In Common Report: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Highly Regarded as a "Leader, Brave, and Activist" -- Presenting a survey showing that Americans’ views of MLK Day” found most Americans value and respect Dr. King and they think that racial equality has improved since the 1960’s.
ID# 8979 -- 8979 -- More In Common Report: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Highly Regarded as a "Leader, Brave, and Activist" -- Presenting a survey showing that Americans’ views of MLK Day” found most Americans value and respect Dr. King and they think that racial equality has improved since the 1960’s.
ID# 8980 -- 8980 -- Internet Censorship 2023: A Global Map of Internet Restrictions -- Interested in learning how your country compares to the rest of the world on internet censorship? Comparitek has broken down every country’s online restrictions into an easy-to-read guide.
ID# 8980 -- 8980 -- Internet Censorship 2023: A Global Map of Internet Restrictions -- Interested in learning how your country compares to the rest of the world on internet censorship? Comparitek has broken down every country’s online restrictions into an easy-to-read guide.
ID# 8981 -- 8981 -- The Forward Party -- The Forward Party is fighting for the American people with practical, common-sense solutions, forged by bringing people together instead of driving them apart.
ID# 8981 -- 8981 -- The Forward Party -- The Forward Party is fighting for the American people with practical, common-sense solutions, forged by bringing people together instead of driving them apart.
ID# 8982 -- 8982 -- National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers (NANR) -- An association dedicated to structural election reforms that advance the public's interest in robust political competition and a level playing field.
ID# 8982 -- 8982 -- National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers (NANR) -- An association dedicated to structural election reforms that advance the public's interest in robust political competition and a level playing field.
ID# 8982 -- 8982 -- National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers (NANR) -- An association dedicated to structural election reforms that advance the public's interest in robust political competition and a level playing field.
ID# 8983 -- 8983 -- Healthy Democracy, Healthy People -- A new nonpartisan initiative from major public health and civic engagement groups that supports public health professionals and policymakers who are working to advance civic participation and public health.
ID# 8983 -- 8983 -- Healthy Democracy, Healthy People -- A new nonpartisan initiative from major public health and civic engagement groups that supports public health professionals and policymakers who are working to advance civic participation and public health.
ID# 8983 -- 8983 -- Healthy Democracy, Healthy People -- A new nonpartisan initiative from major public health and civic engagement groups that supports public health professionals and policymakers who are working to advance civic participation and public health.
ID# 8984 -- 8984 -- Mormon Women for Ethical Government -- MWEG's mission is to inspire women of faith to be ambassadors of peace who transcend partisanship and courageously advocate for ethical government.
ID# 8984 -- 8984 -- Mormon Women for Ethical Government -- MWEG's mission is to inspire women of faith to be ambassadors of peace who transcend partisanship and courageously advocate for ethical government.
ID# 8984 -- 8984 -- Mormon Women for Ethical Government -- MWEG's mission is to inspire women of faith to be ambassadors of peace who transcend partisanship and courageously advocate for ethical government.
ID# 8984 -- 8984 -- Mormon Women for Ethical Government -- MWEG's mission is to inspire women of faith to be ambassadors of peace who transcend partisanship and courageously advocate for ethical government.
ID# 8985 -- 8985 -- More Perfect -- A a national campaign to align American citizens and institutions around a shared vision for our democracy – and to marshal all the energy and resources it will take to achieve that future together.
ID# 8985 -- 8985 -- More Perfect -- A a national campaign to align American citizens and institutions around a shared vision for our democracy – and to marshal all the energy and resources it will take to achieve that future together.
ID# 8986 -- 8986 -- Serve America Together -- A campaign to make national service part of growing up in America.
ID# 8986 -- 8986 -- Serve America Together -- A campaign to make national service part of growing up in America.
ID# 8987 -- 8987 -- Educating for American Democracy (EAD) -- EAD is a call to action to invest in strengthening history and civic learning in K-12, and to ensure that civic learning opportunities are delivered equitably throughout the country.
ID# 8987 -- 8987 -- Educating for American Democracy (EAD) -- EAD is a call to action to invest in strengthening history and civic learning in K-12, and to ensure that civic learning opportunities are delivered equitably throughout the country.
ID# 8987 -- 8987 -- Educating for American Democracy (EAD) -- EAD is a call to action to invest in strengthening history and civic learning in K-12, and to ensure that civic learning opportunities are delivered equitably throughout the country.
ID# 8987 -- 8987 -- Educating for American Democracy (EAD) -- EAD is a call to action to invest in strengthening history and civic learning in K-12, and to ensure that civic learning opportunities are delivered equitably throughout the country.
ID# 8990 -- 8990 -- What Does the Evidence Say About U.S. Gun Laws? -- A Rand report reviewing the scientific evidence relating to the efficacy of various gun-related laws and policies for preventing gun deaths.
ID# 8990 -- 8990 -- What Does the Evidence Say About U.S. Gun Laws? -- A Rand report reviewing the scientific evidence relating to the efficacy of various gun-related laws and policies for preventing gun deaths.
ID# 8992 -- 8992 -- When colleges take political positions, they show who isn’t wanted -- A persuasive argument that universities should not, as institutions, take political positions -- positions that cut off critically needed debate on important social issues.
ID# 8997 -- 8997 -- Does the Textual Corpus for Large Language Models Have Enough Information to Train an AGI? -- For those trying to understand where A.I. might be taking us, a look at the nature of "intelligence" and the potential of the new technologies.
ID# 9001 -- 9001 -- Reverse Dominance Hierarchies -- An eye-opening look at the evolutionary history of humanity and the processes that selected for egalitarianism.
ID# 9002 -- 9002 -- Life is Inherently Uncomfortable -- An argument that universities should focus less on being safe and nurturing and more on preparing students for a world of controversy and conflict in which things do not always go well.
ID# 9008 -- 9008 -- Five Rules for an Aging World -- A look at a little recognized but, quite probably, major threat to human society – the collapse of fertility rates.
ID# 9011 -- 9011 -- One Woman Is Holding Politicians Accountable for Nasty Speech. It’s Changing Politics. -- An example of somebody with the bright idea that is making a real difference -- the dignity index, a strategy for encouraging and reinforcing constructive political rhetoric.
ID# 9011 -- 9011 -- One Woman Is Holding Politicians Accountable for Nasty Speech. It’s Changing Politics. -- An example of somebody with the bright idea that is making a real difference -- the dignity index, a strategy for encouraging and reinforcing constructive political rhetoric.
ID# 9011 -- 9011 -- One Woman Is Holding Politicians Accountable for Nasty Speech. It’s Changing Politics. -- An example of somebody with the bright idea that is making a real difference -- the dignity index, a strategy for encouraging and reinforcing constructive political rhetoric.
ID# 9015 -- 9015 -- I’m a Congressman Who Codes. A.I. Freaks Me Out. -- An example of somebody who is trying to come up with realistic ways of limiting the downsides of A.I while enjoying the upsides.
ID# 9017 -- 9017 -- Congress Must Halt Big Tech’s Power Grab -- We need to do more than complain about the power of big tech. Here is somebody who's trying to find a way to control that power. Who can improve on these ideas?
ID# 9018 -- 9018 -- Why We Need Civics -- A compelling argument for strengthening the teaching of "civics" -- the underlying commonality that binds together US democracy's diverse citizenry.
ID# 9018 -- 9018 -- Why We Need Civics -- A compelling argument for strengthening the teaching of "civics" -- the underlying commonality that binds together US democracy's diverse citizenry.
ID# 9018 -- 9018 -- Why We Need Civics -- A compelling argument for strengthening the teaching of "civics" -- the underlying commonality that binds together US democracy's diverse citizenry.
ID# 9018 -- 9018 -- Why We Need Civics -- A compelling argument for strengthening the teaching of "civics" -- the underlying commonality that binds together US democracy's diverse citizenry.
ID# 9019 -- 9019 -- What Really Took America to War in Iraq -- As the war in Iraq slides further into history, we now have a chance to reflect on articles like this that offer a more detached and objective account of events (and lessons for the future).
ID# 9019 -- 9019 -- What Really Took America to War in Iraq -- As the war in Iraq slides further into history, we now have a chance to reflect on articles like this that offer a more detached and objective account of events (and lessons for the future).
ID# 9020 -- 9020 -- Wikipedia Quietly Shapes How We View the World -- An "If it exists it must be possible" story. This one looks at Wikipedia's remarkable success in writing articles that are broadly seen as objective and reliable.
ID# 9022 -- 9022 -- The Populist Independents -- A look at a small, but potentially quite powerful, segment of the electorate -- populists dismayed about the current direction of society who see moderate politicians as the solution.
ID# 9025 -- 9025 -- A Smarter Way to Reduce Gun Deaths -- An exceptionally good compilation of reasonable ideas (and supporting evidence) for limiting the terrible toll associated with gun-related violence.
ID# 9028 -- 9028 -- We keep moving from one wrong fight to another. Here’s how to stop. -- From Amanda Ripley, provocative essay that explores the inflammatory role being played by conflict entrepreneurs and the misconceptions that we spend so much time fighting about.
ID# 9030 -- 9030 -- Reading, Writing, and … Black Studies? -- Amid all of the sound and fury over Florida's proposed AP course in African-American studies, a thought-provoking report that tries to explain the nature of the conflict and the issues involved.
ID# 9031 -- 9031 -- Someone Else's Utopia -- A report on a fascinating new compilation of mini-biographies telling the story of how life experiences have altered the views of those who have tried to make the world a better place.
ID# 9031 -- 9031 -- Someone Else's Utopia -- A report on a fascinating new compilation of mini-biographies telling the story of how life experiences have altered the views of those who have tried to make the world a better place.
ID# 9033 -- 9033 -- We Profiled the ‘Signs of Crisis’ in 50 Years of Mass Shootings. This Is What We Found. -- A report on the search for commonalities in the motives of mass shooters that documents the important role played by social alienation.
ID# 9033 -- 9033 -- We Profiled the ‘Signs of Crisis’ in 50 Years of Mass Shootings. This Is What We Found. -- A report on the search for commonalities in the motives of mass shooters that documents the important role played by social alienation.
ID# 9038 -- 9038 -- Vertical communities -- A thoughtful look at how technology is changing the nature of the communities in which we live our lives.
ID# 9041 -- 9041 -- Partisan ‘Fact Checkers’ Spread Climate-Change Misinformation -- A pretty well-documented example of what can go wrong when supposedly objective fact-finders start favoring politically convenient facts over objective evidence.
ID# 9044 -- 9044 -- How Moderate Republicans Became an Endangered Species -- From a Republican perspective, a look at the potential power of political moderates, the difficulties that moderates have faced, and strategies for overcoming those difficulties.
ID# 9046 -- 9046 -- Overview of Monthly Conflict Transformation Empathy Cafes -- Information about how you can participate in monthly Empathy Cafe for the Conflict Transformation, Mediation, Peacebuilding, Bridging, and Security Community to come together and connect.
ID# 9060 -- 9060 -- Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class—A Status Update -- An update on the complex psychology of the cosmopolitan elite and the subtle and consequential ways in which they influence the rest of us.
ID# 9077 -- 9077 -- America is in a ‘Great Pulling Apart.’ Can we pull together? -- In the context of today's complex challenges, an insightful, personal attempt to imagine a democratic society in which we would all like to live.
ID# 9083 -- 9083 -- How Much Longer Can ‘Vote Blue No Matter Who!’ Last? -- A review of what political scientists see as the likely efficacy of the Democratic political strategy of emphasizing racial differences (and assuming near monolithic support from nonwhites).
ID# 9085 -- 9085 -- Three Cheers For Gradualism -- The case for incremental change in a radical age. -- For a time in which many people believe that radical social and political changes are the only way in which we can address our problems, a persuasive argument for a slower and more careful approach.
ID# 9089 -- 9089 -- Blankets, Food Banks, and Shuttered Pubs: Brexit Has Delivered a Broken Britain -- An update on the increasingly sad plight of Great Britain three years after Brexit's implementation. And, a cautionary tale for those considering sudden and radical social and political changes.
ID# 9090 -- 9090 -- Inclusive or Alienating? The Language Wars Go On -- A thoughtful argument that widespread efforts to enforce increasingly aggressive changes in the use of language are making things worse rather than better.
ID# 9094 -- 9094 -- In the Age of A.I., Major in Being Human -- Sound advice for young people thinking about how to fit into a world in which artificial intelligence technologies are going to do things that we used to think only highly educated people could do.
ID# 9094 -- 9094 -- In the Age of A.I., Major in Being Human -- Sound advice for young people thinking about how to fit into a world in which artificial intelligence technologies are going to do things that we used to think only highly educated people could do.
ID# 9096 -- 9096 -- Go See What Happened to My City, Then You’ll Know How I Am -- From Syria (before the earthquake) a heart wrenching story about the kind of dystopia that authoritarianism and civil war can produce (and another argument for fixing our politics).
ID# 9099 -- 9099 -- Newsrooms that move beyond ‘objectivity’ can build trust -- A report on a major new inquiry into the mainstream media's trustworthiness crisis and a disturbing argument that the solution is to abandon objectivity and the telling of both sides of a story.
ID# 9099 -- 9099 -- Newsrooms that move beyond ‘objectivity’ can build trust -- A report on a major new inquiry into the mainstream media's trustworthiness crisis and a disturbing argument that the solution is to abandon objectivity and the telling of both sides of a story.
ID# 9099 -- 9099 -- Newsrooms that move beyond ‘objectivity’ can build trust -- A report on a major new inquiry into the mainstream media's trustworthiness crisis and a disturbing argument that the solution is to abandon objectivity and the telling of both sides of a story.
ID# 9104 -- 9104 -- An Even Deadlier Pandemic Could Soon Be Here -- The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how very far we are from being able to sensibly and effectively respond to such crises. We simply have to do better and this article explains why we have to hurry.
ID# 9121 -- 9121 -- ‘Bad Apples’ or Systemic Issues? -- A look at a continuum between two very different ways of responding to outrageous and indefensible acts and reflections on how our politics affects our response.
ID# 9123 -- 9123 -- The Anti-Gun Violence Hustle -- For those who might think that spending money on a social problem means that we are getting closer to a solution, a reminder that the "industrial complex" effect applies to much more than the military.
ID# 9127 -- 9127 -- Banning noncompete clauses would be an economic game changer -- Noncompete clauses, especially for low and middle income workers, represent a kind of modern day indentured servitude. Hopeful news about efforts to ban the practice.
ID# 9130 -- 9130 -- What Economics (and Sociology) ought to be -- This thoughtful essay reminds us of what the social sciences could learn if they would aside political advocacy and objectively study our problems.
ID# 9130 -- 9130 -- What Economics (and Sociology) ought to be -- This thoughtful essay reminds us of what the social sciences could learn if they would aside political advocacy and objectively study our problems.
ID# 9131 -- 9131 -- Year Two of the Ukraine War Is Going to Get Scary -- From the onset, it was clear that the Ukrainians, the Russians, and the West would almost anything to avoid losing. We are getting closer to the point where we find out what "almost anything" means.
ID# 9136 -- 9136 -- The Approaching Disintegration of Academia -- Reflections on what the abandonment of objectivity would mean for academia (and society's ability to solve problems where solutions depend on true, not politically convenient, understanding).
ID# 9142 -- 9142 -- Meet the People Working on Getting Us to Hate Each Other Less -- A great summary, with lots of links, to the projects that are making massively parallel efforts to defuse hyper-polarization a reality.
ID# 9144 -- 9144 -- Russia and Ukraine Have Incentives to Negotiate. The U.S. Has Other Plans. -- In the context of the war in Ukraine a look at the extraordinarily consequential question of when to and not to negotiate.
ID# 9147 -- 9147 -- The Polarization Spiral -- How the right's monomania and the left's Great Awokening feed each other -- "For every action, there is a disproportionate reaction" -- a look at the way in which the hyperpolarization spiral is being driven by the extremes of the left and the right.
ID# 9149 -- 9149 -- Biden’s Vision About How to Heal America -- Reflections on a path toward healing America that focuses on the plight of the many people (of all races) that live at the economic margins of society.
ID# 9153 -- 9153 -- What the Culture Wars Get Wrong -- Amid all the sound and fury over the teaching of history, reassuring news that there is broad support for and agreement on what an honest and balanced curriculum would look like.
ID# 9154 -- 9154 -- The Dawn of Nuclear Energy Abundance -- As we start to spend big money on the shift away from carbon-based fuels, hard questions about the limits of wind and solar and hopeful thoughts about the promise of nuclear energy.
ID# 9154 -- 9154 -- The Dawn of Nuclear Energy Abundance -- As we start to spend big money on the shift away from carbon-based fuels, hard questions about the limits of wind and solar and hopeful thoughts about the promise of nuclear energy.
ID# 9157 -- 9157 -- White Liberals Vs. The Working Class -- One view on the current status of the important, but often neglected, conflict between progressives and the working classes.
ID# 9161 -- 9161 -- How to Destroy (What’s Left of) the Mainstream Media’s Credibility -- A critical response to ongoing calls for the media to abandon the quest for objectivity in favor of solidarity with progressive worldviews.
ID# 9161 -- 9161 -- How to Destroy (What’s Left of) the Mainstream Media’s Credibility -- A critical response to ongoing calls for the media to abandon the quest for objectivity in favor of solidarity with progressive worldviews.
ID# 9170 -- 9170 -- These radically simple changes helped lawmakers actually get things done -- Another one of those good news stories about people doing things that the conventional wisdom thinks impossible.
ID# 9171 -- 9171 -- Men Need Purpose More Than ‘Respect’ -- A good example of how paying attention to the human needs of those involved in conflict can help limit the alienation and hostility that can make conflicts so intractable..
ID# 9173 -- 9173 -- Amanda Ripley -- Stepping out of "the zombie dance" we're in, and into "good conflict" that is, in fact, life-giving -- An illuminating interview that helps us understand how Amanda Ripley's insightful views about conflict evolved (and how we all could think more constructively about the topic).
ID# 9173 -- 9173 -- Amanda Ripley -- Stepping out of "the zombie dance" we're in, and into "good conflict" that is, in fact, life-giving -- An illuminating interview that helps us understand how Amanda Ripley's insightful views about conflict evolved (and how we all could think more constructively about the topic).
ID# 9174 -- 9174 -- The conservative challenge to liberalism goes deeper than self-interest -- An explanation of the core beliefs underlying conservatism (for those who might think that it is nothing more than a set of rationalizations justifying the pursuit of selfish interests).
ID# 9181 -- 9181 -- Rediscovering Our Shared American Values -- For a time when our attention is dominated by the many issues that divide us, reflections on shared values that can help to bring us back together.
ID# 9184 -- 9184 -- Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference -- A website with information about and reviews of an important new book that emphasizes the positive role that pluralism can play in making a diverse society really work.
ID# 9184 -- 9184 -- Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference -- A website with information about and reviews of an important new book that emphasizes the positive role that pluralism can play in making a diverse society really work.
ID# 9184 -- 9184 -- Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference -- A website with information about and reviews of an important new book that emphasizes the positive role that pluralism can play in making a diverse society really work.
ID# 9187 -- 9187 -- How UK Politicians Are Learning to Disagree—More Agreeably -- From the United Kingdom yet another promising story about people who are showing us that it's possible to handle conflict in positive ways.
ID# 9192 -- 9192 -- The ‘Disinformation Industry’ Is Only One Part of a Larger Scandal -- From the National Review, a critique of the left-leaning fact-checking industry and a reminder of the difficulties faced by this once promising effort to provide us with information we can rely on.
ID# 9192 -- 9192 -- The ‘Disinformation Industry’ Is Only One Part of a Larger Scandal -- From the National Review, a critique of the left-leaning fact-checking industry and a reminder of the difficulties faced by this once promising effort to provide us with information we can rely on.
ID# 9193 -- 9193 -- The Power-Mad Utopians -- A thought-provoking and undoubtedly controversial look at six major political follies that have characterized the still young 21st-century (three on the left and the on three right)
ID# 9193 -- 9193 -- The Power-Mad Utopians -- A thought-provoking and undoubtedly controversial look at six major political follies that have characterized the still young 21st-century (three on the left and the on three right)
ID# 9194 -- 9194 -- Will America’s woes bring down democracy and capitalism worldwide? -- A report on another major new book that helps us understand our troubled times and, especially the ways in which elites are undermining both democracy and capitalism.
ID# 9194 -- 9194 -- Will America’s woes bring down democracy and capitalism worldwide? -- A report on another major new book that helps us understand our troubled times and, especially the ways in which elites are undermining both democracy and capitalism.
ID# 9195 -- 9195 -- Bring Back Objective Journalism -- More on the debate over whether "objectivity" is the key to trustworthiness or whether it is an obstacle to be avoided.
ID# 9195 -- 9195 -- Bring Back Objective Journalism -- More on the debate over whether "objectivity" is the key to trustworthiness or whether it is an obstacle to be avoided.
ID# 9197 -- 9197 -- We are already at war with Russia -- A critically important reminder of how dangerous the war in Ukraine has become. Somehow we have to find a way to prevent Russia's brutal invasion from succeeding, while also preventing a wider and much more catastrophic war.
ID# 9199 -- 9199 -- Revisiting the Three Point Plan to Fix the Democrats and Their Coalition -- From a Democratic perspective, a look at the deteriorating strength of their political coalition and proposed changes that could make it much more broadly attractive.
ID# 9203 -- 9203 -- Biden’s Federal Budget Blowout -- An alarming, nonpartisan report from the Congressional Budget Office shows just how far the abandonment of budgetary constraint has taken us. Is this, as Democrats claim, "sustainable?"
ID# 9207 -- 9207 -- Our Age of Impunity -- An exploration of why so many people in so many contexts have come to the conclusion that they can get away with most anything. And, a call for building the "countervailing power" needed to restore accountability.
ID# 9213 -- 9213 -- Rachel Kleinfeld on Why America Isn’t About to Have a Civil War -- Rachel Kleinfeld discuss strategies for limiting extremism, strengthening American democracy, and containing political violence. She also explains why she mistrusts predictions of “civil war.”
ID# 9213 -- 9213 -- Rachel Kleinfeld on Why America Isn’t About to Have a Civil War -- Rachel Kleinfeld discuss strategies for limiting extremism, strengthening American democracy, and containing political violence. She also explains why she mistrusts predictions of “civil war.”
ID# 9217 -- 9217 -- How Football Might Prevent Iraq's Next Civil War -- A hopeful story about a sports team that is helping span social and political divides in ways that are helping reduce tensions.
ID# 9225 -- 9225 -- How Putin's Russian goon squad used Mexican gig workers to troll an American election -- An account from a person who found himself in the middle of Russian efforts to hire provocateurs to influence US elections and politics.
ID# 9227 -- 9227 -- Imagining a better future for American democracy, with Suzette Brooks Masters -- A much more positive way of looking at democracy's problems -- instead of focusing on things that are going wrong, focus on things that could go right.
ID# 9227 -- 9227 -- Imagining a better future for American democracy, with Suzette Brooks Masters -- A much more positive way of looking at democracy's problems -- instead of focusing on things that are going wrong, focus on things that could go right.
ID# 9227 -- 9227 -- Imagining a better future for American democracy, with Suzette Brooks Masters -- A much more positive way of looking at democracy's problems -- instead of focusing on things that are going wrong, focus on things that could go right.
ID# 9235 -- 9235 -- Why Did Fox News Lie to Its Viewers? -- A rare look at court-admissible evidence that documents the way in which the need to tell audiences what they want to hear is distorting news coverage -- a problem that is far more widespread than Fox News.
ID# 9236 -- 9236 -- Bing and Google's chatbots are a disaster -- A reassuring look behind the curtain (and the hype) surrounding the new AI chat bots. They are a long way from anything like artificial intelligence, but not so far from pretending that they have it.
ID# 9242 -- 9242 -- Biden’s Promises on Social Security and Medicare Have No Basis in Reality -- Democracy is supposed to be a system for making wise and equitable decisions about how to allocate limited resources. Increasingly, it seems that we now view those resource limits as illusions.
ID# 9248 -- 9248 -- Robert Talissee, Sustaining Democracy: What Do We Owe the Other Side -- A overview of an important book that asks a fundamental and seldom addressed question: when does the victory we aspire to become unreasonable?
ID# 9250 -- 9250 -- U.S. LGBT Identification Steady at 7.2% -- From Gallup, a statistical portrait of what rapid social change really looks like.
ID# 9252 -- 9252 -- The Forces Tearing Us Apart Are Not Quite What They Seem -- An informative and much more nuanced look at what the latest political science is telling us about the nature and magnitude of our differences.
ID# 9254 -- 9254 -- Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Civil War -- More evidence that the United States continues to slide toward some sort of existential crisis where, for increasing numbers of people, the prospect of actually splitting the country seemed increasingly attractive.
ID# 9255 -- 9255 -- Democrats to Continue Meddling in GOP Primaries -- Amid the Democrats claims that Republicans constitute a continuing threat to democracy, disturbing news that they are continuing their hypocritical campaign to get Republicans to nominate extremists.
ID# 9258 -- 9258 -- The Reagan Revolution Was Built on Compromise -- For those on the right who do not feel that the changes they seek can be achieved through compromise, a reminder of what Ronald Reagan was able to accomplish.
ID# 9272 -- 9272 -- The Wisdom and Prophecy of Jimmy Carter’s ‘Malaise’ Speech -- A story worth remembering (and learning from) about a time when a US President tried understand the complex, underlying social dynamics that were tearing apart the United States.
ID# 9273 -- 9273 -- This War May Be Heading for a Cease-Fire -- As the death and destruction in Ukraine continues, and as the risks of an even more major super-power confrontation loom, a creative idea for bringing an end to the violence from the Korean War.
ID# 9274 -- 9274 -- The Case For (Even More) Compromise -- A story about what has been gained through compromise and what our stubborn unwillingness to compromise further is costing us.
ID# 9301 -- 9301 -- The Democrats’ Patriotism Problem -- The next installment in a three-part look at things that Democrats might do to broaden their appeal enough to start diffusing our hyper-polarized politics. This one focuses on the trouble that progressives often have acknowledging that there are good things about America.
ID# 9306 -- 9306 -- How U.S. Ambassador Tom Nides Became Israel’s Arsonist-in-Chief -- Another look at the complex political crisis engulfing Israel and a call for caution on the part of those in the US who want to get involved. We could easily make things worse rather than better.
ID# 9308 -- 9308 -- 7 quick facts about accesSOS — a text to 911 app that triages emergency responses and gets people the help they actually need -- An example of a practical project designed to overcome some of the problems associated with emergency response systems.
ID# 9312 -- 9312 -- Low-wage workers are finally catching a break -- A good news story about how those at lower levels of the social hierarchy are, in today's tight job market, doing surprisingly well with wage gains that would have been considered impossible just a few years ago.
ID# 9316 -- 9316 -- Putin Has Assembled an Axis of Autocrats Against Ukraine -- A reminder that, even in a multi-polar world, coalition building dynamics can lead to dangerous polarization and, conceivably, a major confrontation between the authoritarianism and democracy.
ID# 9316 -- 9316 -- Putin Has Assembled an Axis of Autocrats Against Ukraine -- A reminder that, even in a multi-polar world, coalition building dynamics can lead to dangerous polarization and, conceivably, a major confrontation between the authoritarianism and democracy.
ID# 9318 -- 9318 -- Rupert Murdoch Rides the Trump Tiger — and Gets Eaten -- More reflections on the Dominion lawsuit revelations and evidence that inflammatory media coverage is transforming the political environment in ways that we have yet to figure out how to reverse.
ID# 9324 -- 9324 -- Take Threats of ‘National Divorce’ Seriously -- For those thinking in terms of victory over, rather than accommodation with, the other side of the political divide, a warning about where this is taking us.
ID# 9324 -- 9324 -- Take Threats of ‘National Divorce’ Seriously -- For those thinking in terms of victory over, rather than accommodation with, the other side of the political divide, a warning about where this is taking us.
ID# 9330 -- 9330 -- How Democracy Can Win -- From Samantha Powers, thoughtful reflections on what democratic societies can do to defend themselves against increasingly aggressive authoritarian regimes.
ID# 9330 -- 9330 -- How Democracy Can Win -- From Samantha Powers, thoughtful reflections on what democratic societies can do to defend themselves against increasingly aggressive authoritarian regimes.
ID# 9331 -- 9331 -- Why So Many Elites Feel Like Losers -- Insight into the reasons why so many of our most talented, hard-working, and successful young people are struggling and losing faith in the system.
ID# 9334 -- 9334 -- America’s Terrifying Cycle of Extremist Violence -- A detailed look at the most dangerous and violent aspect of today's hyper-polarized politics.
ID# 9335 -- 9335 -- Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development -- How do local communities effectively build peace and reconciliation before, during and after open violence? A book with practical examples, from the Global North, the former Soviet bloc, and Global South.
ID# 9335 -- 9335 -- Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development -- How do local communities effectively build peace and reconciliation before, during and after open violence? A book with practical examples, from the Global North, the former Soviet bloc, and Global South.
ID# 9335 -- 9335 -- Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development -- How do local communities effectively build peace and reconciliation before, during and after open violence? A book with practical examples, from the Global North, the former Soviet bloc, and Global South.
ID# 9336 -- 9336 -- The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline -- An essay that starts with the assumption that "power is never given, it is always taken." It then goes on to observe that the historic success of nonviolent movements proves that they can be more powerful than the autocratic regimes they oppose.
ID# 9336 -- 9336 -- The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline -- An essay that starts with the assumption that "power is never given, it is always taken." It then goes on to observe that the historic success of nonviolent movements proves that they can be more powerful than the autocratic regimes they oppose.
ID# 9336 -- 9336 -- The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline -- An essay that starts with the assumption that "power is never given, it is always taken." It then goes on to observe that the historic success of nonviolent movements proves that they can be more powerful than the autocratic regimes they oppose.
ID# 9336 -- 9336 -- The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline -- An essay that starts with the assumption that "power is never given, it is always taken." It then goes on to observe that the historic success of nonviolent movements proves that they can be more powerful than the autocratic regimes they oppose.
ID# 9336 -- 9336 -- The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline -- An essay that starts with the assumption that "power is never given, it is always taken." It then goes on to observe that the historic success of nonviolent movements proves that they can be more powerful than the autocratic regimes they oppose.
ID# 9340 -- 9340 -- Improve how science advice is provided to governments by learning from “experts in expert advice” -- For a complex world in which we are utterly dependent upon expert advice to keep the system running, welcome news that there are experts specializing in how to obtain advice that is genuinely trustworthy.
ID# 9340 -- 9340 -- Improve how science advice is provided to governments by learning from “experts in expert advice” -- For a complex world in which we are utterly dependent upon expert advice to keep the system running, welcome news that there are experts specializing in how to obtain advice that is genuinely trustworthy.
ID# 9342 -- 9342 -- The U.S. Is Not Yet Ready for the Era of ‘Great Power’ Conflict -- Another reminder that the global security situation is changing rapidly. If we don't find a way to adapt to these changes, we risk a breakdown of the system that has been protecting us from major power conflict.
ID# 9346 -- 9346 -- How Estonia Is Planning for the Worst -- For small countries seeking ways to defend themselves from larger and more powerful rivals, lessons from Estonia's efforts to strengthen its defenses.
ID# 9347 -- 9347 -- America Is Too Scared of the Multipolar World -- As geopolitical tensions rise, we may be tempted to take refuge in the simplistic bipolar, thinking of the Cold War. However, what we really need to do is learn how navigate an emerging multipolar world.
ID# 9348 -- 9348 -- Drowning in a sea of resentment and hate, it's far from clear that Israel can make it back to shore. -- A perceptive look at the conflicts that are tearing apart Israel (which look a lot like those tearing apart the US). The future of democracy depends upon finding better ways of dealing with these tensions.
ID# 9350 -- 9350 -- Thousands of pro-Trump bots are attacking DeSantis, Haley -- Reason to believe that many of the people who are doing the most to inflame our conflicts are not really people at all. Rather, they are malicious bots directed by bad-faith actors.
ID# 9353 -- 9353 -- Actually, You Don’t Know That Much -- An exploration of what happens when we are so convinced that we are right that we think that anyone who disagrees with us is stupid and probably evil.
ID# 9353 -- 9353 -- Actually, You Don’t Know That Much -- An exploration of what happens when we are so convinced that we are right that we think that anyone who disagrees with us is stupid and probably evil.
ID# 9358 -- 9358 -- A View of American History That Leads to One Conclusion -- A thought-provoking essay for those struggling to find a constructive way of thinking about humanity's brutal history while also recognizing its beauty and accomplishments.
ID# 9359 -- 9359 -- Change Makes Fools of Us All -- In the complex and chaotic social environment in which we live, we have to recognize that irreducible uncertainties will, at times, make our most careful plans look foolish. Still, we need to do the best we can.
ID# 9365 -- 9365 -- Why Racial Discussions Should Also Focus on Progress -- A call for balancing efforts to address continuing racial problems with a companion effort to recognize and sustain the progress that has been made.
ID# 9371 -- 9371 -- The Illusion of a Frictionless Existence -- As we strive for an environment that protects us from threats ranging from the "micro" to the truly major, it's worth thinking seriously about when such an effort becomes counterproductive.
ID# 9383 -- 9383 -- Do Non-profits Drive Social Change? -- A thought-provoking article for the many of us who have spent our careers in nonprofit organizations working to address society's big problems.
ID# 9391 -- 9391 -- The Levin-Rothman Plan for Altering the Justice System: A Comprehensive Analysis and Proposal for Consideration -- For those watching (or participating in) Israel's us-vs-them confrontation over "judicial reform," a link to an authoritative, balanced and detailed analysis of the issues as well as some suggested compromises.
ID# 9395 -- 9395 -- Intellectual Brown Web (IBW): An Introduction -- The genuinely interesting effort to add diversity and nuance to often bipolar discussions about race.
ID# 9399 -- 9399 -- Propaganda (Almost) Never Works -- Reassuring new data indicating that the impact of today's high-tech propaganda is much less than we might otherwise have feared.
ID# 9399 -- 9399 -- Propaganda (Almost) Never Works -- Reassuring new data indicating that the impact of today's high-tech propaganda is much less than we might otherwise have feared.
ID# 9399 -- 9399 -- Propaganda (Almost) Never Works -- Reassuring new data indicating that the impact of today's high-tech propaganda is much less than we might otherwise have feared.
ID# 9403 -- 9403 -- How to Stop 2024 From Looking Like 2016 -- An explanation of an important, but often neglected, strategy for preventing extreme candidates (like President Trump) from winning their party's nomination.
ID# 9405 -- 9405 -- How to be a smart consumer of climate attribution claims -- An example of the kind of guide to understanding "expert" opinion that we need to make sensible use of expert analyses of all complex social problems .
ID# 9410 -- 9410 -- Is Ron DeSantis Flaming Out Already? -- As we try to find a viable strategy for combating Russia's naked invasion of Ukraine, a look at how domestic US politics could, instead, wind up strengthening this kind of brutality.
ID# 9415 -- 9415 -- You Can’t Define Woke -- An exploration of how the complexities of language can make it vastly more difficult to work through the big issues that divide us.
ID# 9415 -- 9415 -- You Can’t Define Woke -- An exploration of how the complexities of language can make it vastly more difficult to work through the big issues that divide us.
ID# 9420 -- 9420 -- Sometimes, Consensus Can Be Ruinous -- As we, with the benefit of hindsight, reflect on the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq, a cautionary argument about how consensus can lead us astray.
ID# 9425 -- 9425 -- You’re Better Off Not Knowing -- As we obsess about all of the things that are going wrong in the world, surprising advice that we ought to step back and focus more on what makes life so wonderful.
ID# 9428 -- 9428 -- The New York Times Is Finally Moving on From 2020 -- Welcome news that the New York Times is again embracing its traditional role of providing a forum for competing views on the big issues facing society.
ID# 9428 -- 9428 -- The New York Times Is Finally Moving on From 2020 -- Welcome news that the New York Times is again embracing its traditional role of providing a forum for competing views on the big issues facing society.
ID# 9429 -- 9429 -- Escape From Model Land -- An in-depth look at the complexities associated with predicting the future (and selecting the most desirable policy options).
ID# 9440 -- 9440 -- The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. -- An important reminder: as we struggle to address today's big problems, we should not lose track of (and fail to sustain) the very real progress that has been made.
ID# 9450 -- 9450 -- Crisis Management -- A review and critique of an important new book, "The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism" by Martin Wolf.
ID# 9450 -- 9450 -- Crisis Management -- A review and critique of an important new book, "The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism" by Martin Wolf.
ID# 9450 -- 9450 -- Crisis Management -- A review and critique of an important new book, "The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism" by Martin Wolf.
ID# 9451 -- 9451 -- The powerful lesson from 18 million workers getting a pay raise over $15 -- Reflections on a welcome and surprising development -- rapid increases in the compensation paid to low-wage workers (something that seemed impossible just a few years ago).
ID# 9452 -- 9452 -- It’s Time to Krauthammer the Curriculum -- A persuasive argument for combating right-wing extremism by raising the visibility of thoughtful, right-leaning critiques of the left.
ID# 9452 -- 9452 -- It’s Time to Krauthammer the Curriculum -- A persuasive argument for combating right-wing extremism by raising the visibility of thoughtful, right-leaning critiques of the left.
ID# 9457 -- 9457 -- The State of ‘Nature’ -- Provocative thoughts on the relationship between political advocacy and science and the danger that too much advocacy can undermine scientific trustworthiness and public trust.
ID# 9457 -- 9457 -- The State of ‘Nature’ -- Provocative thoughts on the relationship between political advocacy and science and the danger that too much advocacy can undermine scientific trustworthiness and public trust.
ID# 9459 -- 9459 -- Helping People by Helping Distressed Places -- A different and potentially quite promising way of thinking about how to help those that are being left behind -- focus on more than individuals, focus on the places in which people live.
ID# 9466 -- 9466 -- 'Live free and die?' The sad state of U.S. life expectancy -- Yet another very persuasive reason for trying to really understand our society's many problems and pursue realistic solutions.
ID# 9472 -- 9472 -- Today’s Woke Excesses Were Born in the ’60s -- A well-documented inquiry into a big question: how did the civil rights movement of today emerge from the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King (and what is been gained and lost in the process)?
ID# 9475 -- 9475 -- Free Speech Doesn’t Mean Free Rein to Shout Down Others -- 0
ID# 9475 -- 9475 -- Free Speech Doesn’t Mean Free Rein to Shout Down Others -- 0
ID# 9476 -- 9476 -- The Cold War With China Is Changing Everything -- As we slide deeper into a cold war with China, thoughtful reflections on what this means.
ID# 9479 -- 9479 -- The Global Transformation of Christianity Is Here -- An eye-opening look at the global spread of Christianity and a reminder that our simplistic stereotypes about culture and cultural change are often wrong.
ID# 9480 -- 9480 -- Do You Live in a ‘Tight’ State or a ‘Loose’ One? Turns Out It Matters Quite a Bit. -- Yet another way of thinking about the social and economic factors underlying our divisions.
ID# 9488 -- 9488 -- The true Left is not woke -- A thoughtful critique of left-leaning, progressive political views and an argument that they often fail to live up to their own ideals.
ID# 9492 -- 9492 -- The Necessity of Patriotism (Even in Times Like These) -- An exploration of how patriotism can coexist with an honest assessment of our nation's failings and why it is a key part of the quest for solutions.
ID# 9499 -- 9499 -- Are There Signs We’re Becoming Less Polarized? -- Reason to believe that there are now places in the US where communities are finding ways around our us-vs-them politics and learning that people on the left and the right have something to contribute.
ID# 9500 -- 9500 -- The Problem With Everything-Bagel Liberalism -- A pragmatic look at what it takes to really solve problems why trying to solve too many problems at once can be counterproductive.
ID# 9502 -- 9502 -- This element is critical to human flourishing — yet missing from the news -- An exploration of the dangers of focusing exclusively on the intractable nature of our problems. To get people to work to help solve those problems there has to be hope that the solutions will work.
ID# 9504 -- 9504 -- Why Force Fails -- The Dismal Track Record of U.S. Military Interventions -- A follow-up on our newsletter on the power strategy mix and the limited utility of force. This article on US military failures over the last 75 years
ID# 9504 -- 9504 -- Why Force Fails -- The Dismal Track Record of U.S. Military Interventions -- A follow-up on our newsletter on the power strategy mix and the limited utility of force. This article on US military failures over the last 75 years
ID# 9507 -- 9507 -- No Labels group raises alarms with third-party presidential preparations -- An update on the promise and the potential pitfalls of an effort to empower the more compromise-oriented political center.
ID# 9507 -- 9507 -- No Labels group raises alarms with third-party presidential preparations -- An update on the promise and the potential pitfalls of an effort to empower the more compromise-oriented political center.
ID# 9509 -- 9509 -- Blundering on the Brink -- The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis -- New information about the 1962 missile crisis in Cuba that brought the world to the brink of nuclear catastrophe with important lessons about the dangers of nuclear brinksmanship.
ID# 9514 -- 9514 -- How to Be Left Without Being Woke -- Towards a better understanding of status and victimhood. -- Ideas for crafting a response to the world's often grotesque inequities that will be more likely to attract the support needed for successful, long-term implementation.
ID# 9515 -- 9515 -- The ‘Other Side’ Is Not Dumb -- Is it possible we’re not right about everything? -- A much-needed call for some old-fashioned humility and serious consideration of the possibility that we might have something to learn from our political opponents.
ID# 9516 -- 9516 -- 7 Ideas to Reduce Political Polarization. And Save America from Itself. -- Sensible things that we could all do to actually help limit the polarization that we complain so much about.
ID# 9516 -- 9516 -- 7 Ideas to Reduce Political Polarization. And Save America from Itself. -- Sensible things that we could all do to actually help limit the polarization that we complain so much about.
ID# 9519 -- 9519 -- Can Humanism Save Us? -- As we continue to struggle to find a vision for a future in which we would all like to live, thoughts on what the long tradition of humanistic philosophy has to teach us.
ID# 9521 -- 9521 -- Partisan Science is Bad for Science and Society -- At a time when so many people are being called upon to "trust the science," some serious thoughts on how to make science truly trustworthy.
ID# 9525 -- 9525 -- The Daily Me -- Reflections on a media environment in which we all edit our own "newsfeeds" and the danger that we will edit out inconvenient truths on both the left of the right.
ID# 9525 -- 9525 -- The Daily Me -- Reflections on a media environment in which we all edit our own "newsfeeds" and the danger that we will edit out inconvenient truths on both the left of the right.
ID# 9529 -- 9529 -- Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook -- 0
ID# 9531 -- 9531 -- We’ll never solve our many crises without this one ingredient -- Important insight into the complex psychological effects of thinking too much about the world's big problems and not enough about its many wonders.
ID# 9536 -- 9536 -- What America gets wrong about gender medicine -- A reminder that, even among people who care deeply about the welfare of transgender youth, there is a continuing need for respectful debate over what kind of care is most helpful.
ID# 9544 -- 9544 -- Carrie Menkel-Meadow: Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Protest -- Who has the right to speak how and when? The Stanford Law School controversy has lessons for all of us.
ID# 9551 -- 9551 -- D.G. Mawn Talks About Community Mediation and NAFCM -- A short summary of a longer interview highlighting the important role that community mediation can play in helping societies handle local conflicts more constructively.
ID# 9566 -- 9566 -- Social Justice Advocacy, Bridge-Building and Philanthropy: How Do These Intersect? -- What role should philanthropy play in the effort to fix democracy? Can they help? How? Or should they bow out, acknowledging that they are making the problem worse?
ID# 9572 -- 9572 -- What Peace in Northern Ireland Looks Like Now -- After a quarter century, an update on one of the most successful (though still struggling) efforts to bring peace to a war-torn society.
ID# 9574 -- 9574 -- How Obama Killed Nuclear Nonproliferation -- 0
ID# 9580 -- 9580 -- The New National American Elite -- For a time in which we all like to think that we are one of the good guys struggling against the oppressive elites, a provocative article that asks us to consider whether we are part of that elite.
ID# 9584 -- 9584 -- Biden Administration Proposes Evenly Cutting Water Allotments From Colorado River -- A classic example of a negative-sum game and the complex, high-stakes political conflict that surrounds it.
ID# 9588 -- 9588 -- The New Truth -- When the moral imperative trumps the rational evidence, there’s no arguing -- A provocative essay exploring the conflict over whether the truth is an end in itself or whether it must be adjusted to meet some higher purpose.
ID# 9591 -- 9591 -- He Made His Country Rich, but Something Has Gone Wrong With the System -- From Singapore, a report on one of the principal alternatives to democracy -- a supposedly benevolent kind of authoritarianism.
ID# 9595 -- 9595 -- Supply-Side Progressivism Has a Fatal Flaw -- An update on the promise (and the political perils) of an intriguing new strategy for addressing social inequities -- "supply-side progressivism."
ID# 9602 -- 9602 -- Could Ice Cream Possibly Be Good for You? -- A terrific case study exploring the complexities of what happens when a scientific study challenges the established consensus.
ID# 9607 -- 9607 -- What Protects Fox News Also Protects Our Democracy -- A thoughtful essay that asks us to consider the possibility that legal principles that we find convenient and virtuous today might someday be used against us.
ID# 9613 -- 9613 -- This Jan. 6 case could make U.S. politics even worse -- A look at legal basis of the charges being brought against many of the January 6 protesters and reflections on possibility that this strategy could be used to silence future critics of the government.
ID# 9615 -- 9615 -- A Texas-Sized Energy Fiasco -- It is a fundamental ecological principle that "you can't do only one thing." This essay applies this principle to the complexities that surround efforts to subsidize wind and solar.
ID# 9616 -- 9616 -- We’re Entering an Era of ‘Total Politics’ -- Another reminder of the dysfunctional nature of our hyper-polarized, us-vs-them politics and the importance of efforts to address the problem.
ID# 9619 -- 9619 -- Managing the Metrics of Academic Publishing -- For those who would like to rebuild public trust in the trustworthiness of scientific analyses, an article about one area in which reform could really help.
ID# 9619 -- 9619 -- Managing the Metrics of Academic Publishing -- For those who would like to rebuild public trust in the trustworthiness of scientific analyses, an article about one area in which reform could really help.
ID# 9620 -- 9620 -- The Scarcest Thing in the World -- For a world in which we are all depend on being able to work with others, a sobering argument that the trust needed for effective collaboration is the scarcest thing in the world.
ID# 9620 -- 9620 -- The Scarcest Thing in the World -- For a world in which we are all depend on being able to work with others, a sobering argument that the trust needed for effective collaboration is the scarcest thing in the world.
ID# 9626 -- 9626 -- Biden’s OMB Plans to Divide America Into More Racial Groups -- For a society in which so much effort is being devoted to providing some racial groups with more opportunities, news about upcoming changes in the way the government defines those groups.
ID# 9630 -- 9630 -- How Disinformation Splintered and Became More Intractable -- An update on recent trends in disinformation campaigns and the the rapidly advancing technologies that are making them increasingly effective.
ID# 9640 -- 9640 -- America’s economic outperformance is a marvel to behold -- A good news story that challenges the popular belief that the US economy (and the larger society) is collapsing and won't be able to meet the needs of its citizens.
ID# 9647 -- 9647 -- The Autocrat Sliding into Your DMs -- Sobering news for those who might be tempted to discount the dangers associated with high-tech authoritarianism.
ID# 9650 -- 9650 -- The Man Who Settled the Fox-Dominion Defamation Case From a Romanian Tour Bus -- An interesting profile of how a mediator brokered the out-of-court settlement in the Dominion / Fox News case.
ID# 9655 -- 9655 -- As enrollment plummets, academia gets schooled about where it went wrong -- For those disturbed about trends in higher education, a thought-provoking and controversial examination of what went wrong.
ID# 9659 -- 9659 -- How Identity Politics Aids the Right and Divides the Left -- An assessment of the political implications of dividing society into separate (and often competing) identity groups.
ID# 9660 -- 9660 -- Rise of the Independents -- But not of third parties -- Interesting observations – increasing numbers of people are identifying as moderate, political "independents" and this trend is not being reflected in increasing support for third-party candidates.
ID# 9662 -- 9662 -- Ukraine and Russia Need a Great-Power Peace Plan -- An outside the box strategy for ending the terrible carnage in Ukraine (and reducing the risk of a wider war). Making peace is likely to require bold and disagreeable compromises like the one proposed.
ID# 9663 -- 9663 -- Laboratories of Authoritarianism -- 0
ID# 9663 -- 9663 -- Laboratories of Authoritarianism -- 0
ID# 9667 -- 9667 -- An Illustrated Guide to Self-Censorship -- An interesting exploration of the many ways in which modern society influences what we do and do not feel comfortable saying.
ID# 9667 -- 9667 -- An Illustrated Guide to Self-Censorship -- An interesting exploration of the many ways in which modern society influences what we do and do not feel comfortable saying.
ID# 9668 -- 9668 -- Bad incentives and the politics of fear -- An exploration of the complex and often hypocritical interplay between real-world threats, political reactions to those threats, public opinion, and electoral outcomes.
ID# 9668 -- 9668 -- Bad incentives and the politics of fear -- An exploration of the complex and often hypocritical interplay between real-world threats, political reactions to those threats, public opinion, and electoral outcomes.
ID# 9669 -- 9669 -- Voters See Democracy in Peril, but Saving It Isn’t a Priority -- It is hard to agree to work together to save something when you can't agree on what you are trying to save or how it is threatened.
ID# 9670 -- 9670 -- ‘A Crisis Coming’: The Twin Threats to American Democracy -- A progressive assessment of the threats to democracy (one that conservatives will doubtless challenge). If we really want to save democracy, we need to define it in ways that both sides can support.
ID# 9672 -- 9672 -- Glenn Loury and the Great Partisan Divide -- Glenn Loury, from a Black conservative perspective, offers a provocative challenge to progressive views on inequality and race (as well as a reminder that there really are issues worth debating).
ID# 9675 -- 9675 -- The ‘Diploma Divide’ Is the New Fault Line in American Politics -- For a time when so many believe that the United States' principal fault lines revolve around race and gender, an argument that education is even more important.
ID# 9680 -- 9680 -- Free Press, Regardless -- As tensions rise over Russia and China's increasingly aggressive brand of high-tech authoritarianism, an update on efforts to undermine the propaganda that makes these regimes possible.
ID# 9680 -- 9680 -- Free Press, Regardless -- As tensions rise over Russia and China's increasingly aggressive brand of high-tech authoritarianism, an update on efforts to undermine the propaganda that makes these regimes possible.
ID# 9682 -- 9682 -- Are you ready to forgive? A new study shows letting go is good for health. -- Food for thought for those who are trying to come to terms with the unrightable wrongs of the past.
ID# 9683 -- 9683 -- Leave ‘the American People’ Alone -- A thought-provoking argument that we spend too much time pursuing a unifying American identity and not enough time learning how to live with our differences.
ID# 9692 -- 9692 -- The angriest voices in Congress are mostly faking -- Reflections from one of our newest members of Congress on the mismatch between the public and the private personas of some of our most inflammatory lawmakers.
ID# 9695 -- 9695 -- The Case Against Consensus -- For a field that prides itself on being able to build consensus, a skeptic's argument is worth considering. (We always need to keep asking ourselves hard questions.)
ID# 9696 -- 9696 -- Empathy, and then what? -- An important reminder that we need to do more than understand the views and motivations of our adversaries. We need to use that information in ways that make things better.
ID# 9706 -- 9706 -- America is exporting its worst ideas across the Atlantic -- A look at the global implications of the United States' culture wars and the complex ramifications that accompany the diffusion of belief systems.
ID# 9710 -- 9710 -- Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’ -- As we think about the lessons that we should learn from the pandemic, reflections from Dr. Fauci on the relationship between pandemic management and conflict management.
ID# 9721 -- 9721 -- America Does Have a Way to Save Itself -- An essay exploring the little used but potentially quite useful and important concept of "defensive democracy."
ID# 9722 -- 9722 -- The Myth of the Myth of Neutrality -- More ideas to consider as we struggle to balance our personal partisan beliefs with the desire to serve in neutral intermediary roles.
ID# 9732 -- 9732 -- Why are Americans shooting strangers and neighbors? ‘It all goes back to fear.’ -- A reminder that the United States' gun problem is downstream of the collapse of mutual trust and the fact that we increasingly fear one another.
ID# 9736 -- 9736 -- American Crisis -- How we lost our faith in the future and how to get it back -- One of the downsides of our excessive focus on our society's failings is that we start to believe that success is impossible (and we quit trying.)
ID# 9740 -- 9740 -- Disney v. DeSantis: How Strong Is the Company’s Lawsuit? -- A look and the legal principles surrounding efforts to limit corruption.
ID# 9741 -- 9741 -- Small-dollar donors didn’t save democracy. They made it worse. -- A reminder that we always need to consider the possibility that sensible sounding reforms could wind up producing unintended (and potentially counterproductive) outcomes.
ID# 9742 -- 9742 -- Focus on the Research, Not the Researcher -- A look at the 'positionality statements' that increasingly accompany scientific publications, and the possibility that they may be contributing to the further politicalization of facts.
ID# 9742 -- 9742 -- Focus on the Research, Not the Researcher -- A look at the 'positionality statements' that increasingly accompany scientific publications, and the possibility that they may be contributing to the further politicalization of facts.
ID# 9743 -- 9743 -- Conversation with D.G. Mawn, President of the National Association for Community Mediation -- Video conversation with D.G. Mawn about the history and current activities of the National Association for Community Mediation and the work of the hundreds of member community mediation centers.
ID# 9744 -- 9744 -- Your political rivals aren’t as bad as you think. Our misunderstandings amplify hostility. -- From Kansas, evidence that our conflicts are more the result of misunderstandings and less the result of deep-rooted disagreements.
ID# 9744 -- 9744 -- Your political rivals aren’t as bad as you think. Our misunderstandings amplify hostility. -- From Kansas, evidence that our conflicts are more the result of misunderstandings and less the result of deep-rooted disagreements.
ID# 9744 -- 9744 -- Your political rivals aren’t as bad as you think. Our misunderstandings amplify hostility. -- From Kansas, evidence that our conflicts are more the result of misunderstandings and less the result of deep-rooted disagreements.
ID# 9744 -- 9744 -- Your political rivals aren’t as bad as you think. Our misunderstandings amplify hostility. -- From Kansas, evidence that our conflicts are more the result of misunderstandings and less the result of deep-rooted disagreements.
ID# 9745 -- 9745 -- AI, Technology, and Equality -- From Francis Fukuyama, thought-provoking reflections on the complex way in which advancing information technologies (including AI) have been and are likely to influence society.
ID# 9749 -- 9749 -- What the Supreme Court Does in the Shadows -- A look at the disturbing ways in which the Supreme Court's "shadow docket" is undermining public trust in the rule of law.
ID# 9749 -- 9749 -- What the Supreme Court Does in the Shadows -- A look at the disturbing ways in which the Supreme Court's "shadow docket" is undermining public trust in the rule of law.
ID# 9750 -- 9750 -- What Readers Really Think About Gender -- An interesting alternative to face-to-face dialogue -- a journalist who promotes mutual understanding by soliciting and then sharing thoughtful reader views on controversial issues.
ID# 9753 -- 9753 -- Lina Khan: We Must Regulate A.I. Here’s How. -- Amid all of the concern about the social impact of the coming AI revolution, specific proposals for regulatory changes that would limit problems while also helping us take advantage of the new technology.
ID# 9754 -- 9754 -- Overuse of ‘existential threat’ is a crisis of existential proportions -- An exploration of the threat posed by our tendency to overstate threats (in order to grab attention and build support).
ID# 9754 -- 9754 -- Overuse of ‘existential threat’ is a crisis of existential proportions -- An exploration of the threat posed by our tendency to overstate threats (in order to grab attention and build support).
ID# 9755 -- 9755 -- In ‘ordinary man,’ a certain greatness emerges of Gerald Ford -- A profile of Gerald Ford, a President who came close to personifying what we look for and political leaders and public servants.
ID# 9757 -- 9757 -- No Labels May Re-Elect Donald Trump -- An update on the difficulties and dangers associated with trying to mount a more moderate, compromise-oriented political candidacy.
ID# 9758 -- 9758 -- The Costs of Brexit Are Undeniable Now -- An update on what happens when legitimate populist grievances lead to policies that fail to achieve their desired real-world results.
ID# 9759 -- 9759 -- Russian ‘Ghost Ships’ Are Turning the Seabed Into a Future Battlefield -- More reason to think that superpower tensions are rising to alarming levels. The time has come to dust off and advance Cold War-era ideas for reducing tensions.
ID# 9764 -- 9764 -- The Renewable Energy Revolution Has a Power Line Problem -- A reminder of the importance of comprehensive problem-solving efforts and the fact that failure to address some aspects of a problem can make successful efforts to address other aspects meaningless.
ID# 9766 -- 9766 -- A Paper That Says Science Should Be Impartial Was Rejected by Major Journals. You Can’t Make This Up. -- An alarming article about the degree to which the pursuit of objective science is being abandoned by progressives.
ID# 9771 -- 9771 -- Divided over Liberty and Equality -- I thoughtful look at the tension that now exists between the goals of liberty and equality and an explanation of how this didn't used to be the case.
ID# 9776 -- 9776 -- Politics Can’t Fix What Ails Us -- A timely reminder that many problems do not have political solutions and a call for developing our problem-solving capabilities in other areas.
ID# 9779 -- 9779 -- The Free Speech Case for Section 230 -- A primer on the many important issues swirling around "Section 230" of the Communications Decency Act and the implications that this has for efforts to control the downsides of social media.
ID# 9779 -- 9779 -- The Free Speech Case for Section 230 -- A primer on the many important issues swirling around "Section 230" of the Communications Decency Act and the implications that this has for efforts to control the downsides of social media.
ID# 9780 -- 9780 -- William Deresiewicz on the “Excellent Sheep” of the American Elite -- A really excellent social psychological analysis of the cosmopolitan elite that now effectively controls so much of society.
ID# 9781 -- 9781 -- The ‘Ethics’ Assault on the Supreme Court -- 0
ID# 9793 -- 9793 -- The Government Created a New Disinformation Office To Oversee All the Other Ones -- Another window into the vast bureaucracy that has been created to control disinformation and, quite possibly, political disagreement.
ID# 9793 -- 9793 -- The Government Created a New Disinformation Office To Oversee All the Other Ones -- Another window into the vast bureaucracy that has been created to control disinformation and, quite possibly, political disagreement.
ID# 9800 -- 9800 -- Why Putin’s repression is worse than what I endured under the Soviets -- A reminder that the terrible tyrannies of the past are not necessarily in the past. If we are not careful, the present can be just as bad – if not worse.
ID# 9800 -- 9800 -- Why Putin’s repression is worse than what I endured under the Soviets -- A reminder that the terrible tyrannies of the past are not necessarily in the past. If we are not careful, the present can be just as bad – if not worse.
ID# 9800 -- 9800 -- Why Putin’s repression is worse than what I endured under the Soviets -- A reminder that the terrible tyrannies of the past are not necessarily in the past. If we are not careful, the present can be just as bad – if not worse.
ID# 9803 -- 9803 -- Nancy Mace, a ‘Caucus of One’ in the G.O.P., Says She’s Trying to Change Her Party -- A profile on a Republican member of Congress from South Carolina who is trying to take a more compromise-oriented approach to governing.
ID# 9805 -- 9805 -- California May Bill You for Slavery -- A report on the racial reparations recommended by a high-level California committee with details about who does and doesn't receive various levels of compensation.
ID# 9806 -- 9806 -- The New Washington Consensus -- A report on an extremely important area of public policy in which a surprising consensus has emerged between the left and the right.
ID# 9809 -- 9809 -- The Race for Clicks Was a Fool’s Game -- Reflections on the implications and costs of the kind of journalism that places so much emphasis on building an audience.
ID# 9809 -- 9809 -- The Race for Clicks Was a Fool’s Game -- Reflections on the implications and costs of the kind of journalism that places so much emphasis on building an audience.
ID# 9813 -- 9813 -- Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know -- A comprehensive look at what increasing numbers of people see as a terrifying assault on the freedom of expression that is so central to a successful democracy.
ID# 9813 -- 9813 -- Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know -- A comprehensive look at what increasing numbers of people see as a terrifying assault on the freedom of expression that is so central to a successful democracy.
ID# 9821 -- 9821 -- National Association for Community Mediation -- A member organization, and a hub for advancing the work of community mediators, aggregating their wisdom and amplifying their voice.
ID# 9821 -- 9821 -- National Association for Community Mediation -- A member organization, and a hub for advancing the work of community mediators, aggregating their wisdom and amplifying their voice.
ID# 9821 -- 9821 -- National Association for Community Mediation -- A member organization, and a hub for advancing the work of community mediators, aggregating their wisdom and amplifying their voice.
ID# 9823 -- 9823 -- Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development (CPDD) -- (CPDD) investigates and addresses human security concerns in Boston and around the world. With particular attention to the problem of scale, we aim to help peacebuilding, democracy, and development organizations and movements to “scale up” so as to deepen and expand their impacts.
ID# 9824 -- 9824 -- Mediators Beyond Borders International -- MBBI builds local skills for peace and promotes mediation worldwide, emphasizing inclusivity cultural competency, and trauma healing.
ID# 9824 -- 9824 -- Mediators Beyond Borders International -- MBBI builds local skills for peace and promotes mediation worldwide, emphasizing inclusivity cultural competency, and trauma healing.
ID# 9824 -- 9824 -- Mediators Beyond Borders International -- MBBI builds local skills for peace and promotes mediation worldwide, emphasizing inclusivity cultural competency, and trauma healing.
ID# 9825 -- 9825 -- American Friends Service Committee -- The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) promotes a world free of violence, inequality, and oppression. They work with people and partners worldwide, of all faiths and backgrounds, to meet urgent community needs, challenge injustice, and build peace.
ID# 9825 -- 9825 -- American Friends Service Committee -- The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) promotes a world free of violence, inequality, and oppression. They work with people and partners worldwide, of all faiths and backgrounds, to meet urgent community needs, challenge injustice, and build peace.
ID# 9826 -- 9826 -- Black Women for Positive Change -- A national policy-focused network of predominately African American women and “Good Brothers” working to strengthen the American middle and working classes (particularly among Blacks) and changing the culture of violence in America.
ID# 9826 -- 9826 -- Black Women for Positive Change -- A national policy-focused network of predominately African American women and “Good Brothers” working to strengthen the American middle and working classes (particularly among Blacks) and changing the culture of violence in America.
ID# 9827 -- 9827 -- The Carter Center -- Founded in partnership with Emory University, the Carter Center has a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering. The Center seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health worldwide.
ID# 9827 -- 9827 -- The Carter Center -- Founded in partnership with Emory University, the Carter Center has a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering. The Center seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health worldwide.
ID# 9827 -- 9827 -- The Carter Center -- Founded in partnership with Emory University, the Carter Center has a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering. The Center seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health worldwide.
ID# 9829 -- 9829 -- Cure Violence Global -- CVG helps communities to implement violence prevention programs that are effective in significantly reducing violence by using a rational, data-driven, evidence-based and smart approach to crime.
ID# 9829 -- 9829 -- Cure Violence Global -- CVG helps communities to implement violence prevention programs that are effective in significantly reducing violence by using a rational, data-driven, evidence-based and smart approach to crime.
ID# 9833 -- 9833 -- International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism -- An action based, interdisciplinary, research center working on psychosocial, cultural, political, economic, ideological, and technological topics impacting global peace and security.
ID# 9833 -- 9833 -- International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism -- An action based, interdisciplinary, research center working on psychosocial, cultural, political, economic, ideological, and technological topics impacting global peace and security.
ID# 9834 -- 9834 -- Institute for Economics and Peace -- The Institute for Economics and Peace aims to create a paradigm shift in the way the world thinks about peace. They do this by developing global and national indices, calculating the economic cost of violence, analyzing country level risk and fragility, and understanding positive peace.
ID# 9834 -- 9834 -- Institute for Economics and Peace -- The Institute for Economics and Peace aims to create a paradigm shift in the way the world thinks about peace. They do this by developing global and national indices, calculating the economic cost of violence, analyzing country level risk and fragility, and understanding positive peace.
ID# 9835 -- 9835 -- Institute for Global Leadership -- IGL provides training and consultation for leaders and teams to adapt to the changed dynamics of a post-9/11 world. They train reconciliation leaders with personal, interpersonal, systemic, and global competencies in business, community, institutional, national, and world environments.
ID# 9835 -- 9835 -- Institute for Global Leadership -- IGL provides training and consultation for leaders and teams to adapt to the changed dynamics of a post-9/11 world. They train reconciliation leaders with personal, interpersonal, systemic, and global competencies in business, community, institutional, national, and world environments.
ID# 9836 -- 9836 -- The Karuna Center for Peacebuilding -- The Karuna Center bridges deep divides to transform violent conflict to foster reconciliation, interrupt cycles of violence, and strengthen community resilience .
ID# 9836 -- 9836 -- The Karuna Center for Peacebuilding -- The Karuna Center bridges deep divides to transform violent conflict to foster reconciliation, interrupt cycles of violence, and strengthen community resilience .
ID# 9837 -- 9837 -- Listen First Project -- Listen First enhances the impact, visibility and voice of the interpersonal bridge building field by aggregating, aligning, and amplifying the efforts of 500 #ListenFirst Coalition partners.
ID# 9837 -- 9837 -- Listen First Project -- Listen First enhances the impact, visibility and voice of the interpersonal bridge building field by aggregating, aligning, and amplifying the efforts of 500 #ListenFirst Coalition partners.
ID# 9837 -- 9837 -- Listen First Project -- Listen First enhances the impact, visibility and voice of the interpersonal bridge building field by aggregating, aligning, and amplifying the efforts of 500 #ListenFirst Coalition partners.
ID# 9838 -- 9838 -- National Coalition or Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) -- A network of innovators who bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and take action together effectively on today’s toughest issues. NCDD serves as a gathering place, a resource center, a news source, and a facilitative leader for this vital community of practice.
ID# 9838 -- 9838 -- National Coalition or Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) -- A network of innovators who bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and take action together effectively on today’s toughest issues. NCDD serves as a gathering place, a resource center, a news source, and a facilitative leader for this vital community of practice.
ID# 9838 -- 9838 -- National Coalition or Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) -- A network of innovators who bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and take action together effectively on today’s toughest issues. NCDD serves as a gathering place, a resource center, a news source, and a facilitative leader for this vital community of practice.
ID# 9838 -- 9838 -- National Coalition or Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) -- A network of innovators who bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and take action together effectively on today’s toughest issues. NCDD serves as a gathering place, a resource center, a news source, and a facilitative leader for this vital community of practice.
ID# 9839 -- 9839 -- Nonviolent Peaceforce -- Their mission is to protect civilians in violent conflicts through unarmed strategies, build peace side-by-side with local communities, and advocate for the wider adoption of these approaches to safeguard human lives and dignity.
ID# 9839 -- 9839 -- Nonviolent Peaceforce -- Their mission is to protect civilians in violent conflicts through unarmed strategies, build peace side-by-side with local communities, and advocate for the wider adoption of these approaches to safeguard human lives and dignity.
ID# 9840 -- 9840 -- Not in Our Town -- NIOT is a movement to stop hate, address bullying, and build safe, inclusive, communities for all, using film, social media, and community organizing. NIOT helps local leaders build vibrant, diverse cities and towns for everyone.
ID# 9840 -- 9840 -- Not in Our Town -- NIOT is a movement to stop hate, address bullying, and build safe, inclusive, communities for all, using film, social media, and community organizing. NIOT helps local leaders build vibrant, diverse cities and towns for everyone.
ID# 9842 -- 9842 -- Parallel Networks -- Parallel Networks is dedicated to combating polarization, hate and extremism in the US and abroad. Founded by a former Al-Qaeda member and the NYPD officer who arrested him.
ID# 9842 -- 9842 -- Parallel Networks -- Parallel Networks is dedicated to combating polarization, hate and extremism in the US and abroad. Founded by a former Al-Qaeda member and the NYPD officer who arrested him.
ID# 9843 -- 9843 -- Police2Peace -- Police2Peace is a national nonprofit with members from the activist and police communities. Its mission is to unite police departments and communities around programs that uplift and heal them.
ID# 9843 -- 9843 -- Police2Peace -- Police2Peace is a national nonprofit with members from the activist and police communities. Its mission is to unite police departments and communities around programs that uplift and heal them.
ID# 9843 -- 9843 -- Police2Peace -- Police2Peace is a national nonprofit with members from the activist and police communities. Its mission is to unite police departments and communities around programs that uplift and heal them.
ID# 9844 -- 9844 -- The Alternatives To Violence Project-USA -- AVP-USA is an association of community, school and prison-based groups offering experiential workshops in personal growth, community development and creative conflict management.
ID# 9844 -- 9844 -- The Alternatives To Violence Project-USA -- AVP-USA is an association of community, school and prison-based groups offering experiential workshops in personal growth, community development and creative conflict management.
ID# 9846 -- 9846 -- Team Democracy -- Team Democracy's mission is to rally all Americans - and especially those who we elect to represent us - to a shared identity, and a shared commitment to democracy. They work especially on assuring safe and fair elections.
ID# 9846 -- 9846 -- Team Democracy -- Team Democracy's mission is to rally all Americans - and especially those who we elect to represent us - to a shared identity, and a shared commitment to democracy. They work especially on assuring safe and fair elections.
ID# 9848 -- 9848 -- National Civic League -- The mission of the National Civic League is to advance civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities. We achieve this by inspiring, supporting and recognizing inclusive approaches to community decision-making.
ID# 9848 -- 9848 -- National Civic League -- The mission of the National Civic League is to advance civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities. We achieve this by inspiring, supporting and recognizing inclusive approaches to community decision-making.
ID# 9848 -- 9848 -- National Civic League -- The mission of the National Civic League is to advance civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities. We achieve this by inspiring, supporting and recognizing inclusive approaches to community decision-making.
ID# 9851 -- 9851 -- Livingroom Conversations' Ranked-Choice Voting Conversation Guide -- Information about how ranked choice voting works and a guide for having a constructive conversation about it.
ID# 9851 -- 9851 -- Livingroom Conversations' Ranked-Choice Voting Conversation Guide -- Information about how ranked choice voting works and a guide for having a constructive conversation about it.
ID# 9854 -- 9854 -- In Ohio, one man’s quest to get more voters to agree to disagree -- The story of one man in Ohio who has started Dinner and a Fight--a dialogue process to get people talking across differences.
ID# 9854 -- 9854 -- In Ohio, one man’s quest to get more voters to agree to disagree -- The story of one man in Ohio who has started Dinner and a Fight--a dialogue process to get people talking across differences.
ID# 9855 -- 9855 -- How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions -- Damon Centola presents over a decade of original research examining how changes in societal behavior — in voting, health, technology, and finance—occur and the ways social networks can be used to influence how they propagate.
ID# 9855 -- 9855 -- How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions -- Damon Centola presents over a decade of original research examining how changes in societal behavior — in voting, health, technology, and finance—occur and the ways social networks can be used to influence how they propagate.
ID# 9857 -- 9857 -- Common Ground Committee's Podcast: Let's Find Common Ground -- A podcast exploring paths to more progress and less division. How to find common ground with "the other side."
ID# 9857 -- 9857 -- Common Ground Committee's Podcast: Let's Find Common Ground -- A podcast exploring paths to more progress and less division. How to find common ground with "the other side."
ID# 9859 -- 9859 -- Political Violence and the 2022 Elections: Rachel Kleinfeld -- A discussion and exploration of why the November 2022 elections in the United States did not turn violent. While it is "impossible to prove a negative," Kleinfeld makes a number of observations that likely contriuted to this outcome, and might so again in the future.
ID# 9860 -- 9860 -- Health and Democracy Index -- When communities vote, they influence policy decisions that have a big effect on their health. This analysis compares 12 public health indicators and voter turnout to the restrictiveness of voting policies in each state.
ID# 9860 -- 9860 -- Health and Democracy Index -- When communities vote, they influence policy decisions that have a big effect on their health. This analysis compares 12 public health indicators and voter turnout to the restrictiveness of voting policies in each state.
ID# 9861 -- 9861 -- How to rise above partisan politics to uphold our democracy -- As we celebrate the International Day of Democracy, here are seven ways to mobilize citizens across differences as partisans for democracy. An article from Julia Roig.
ID# 9861 -- 9861 -- How to rise above partisan politics to uphold our democracy -- As we celebrate the International Day of Democracy, here are seven ways to mobilize citizens across differences as partisans for democracy. An article from Julia Roig.
ID# 9862 -- 9862 -- The Horizons Project -- The Horizons Project recognizes the urgency for a social movement to protect democracy to come together now in the United States. Our vision, mission and values represent our deep commitment to systems-level organizing with the existing ecosystem of social change: i.e., all those working for change with different priorities and from different vantage points across the ideological spectrum.
ID# 9862 -- 9862 -- The Horizons Project -- The Horizons Project recognizes the urgency for a social movement to protect democracy to come together now in the United States. Our vision, mission and values represent our deep commitment to systems-level organizing with the existing ecosystem of social change: i.e., all those working for change with different priorities and from different vantage points across the ideological spectrum.
ID# 9863 -- 9863 -- YOUnify -- YOUnify is a nonprofit project which works to (1) reduce polarization and cultural division by uniting people from business, philanthropy, impact investing, non-profits, government, inter-faith, arts , media, and grassroots organizations working to problem solve together.
ID# 9863 -- 9863 -- YOUnify -- YOUnify is a nonprofit project which works to (1) reduce polarization and cultural division by uniting people from business, philanthropy, impact investing, non-profits, government, inter-faith, arts , media, and grassroots organizations working to problem solve together.
ID# 9864 -- 9864 -- Polarization and Social Change Lab -- Our work is focused on developing practical scientific knowledge in three main areas: paths to political consensus, reducing harms of polarization, and effective strategies of social activism.
ID# 9864 -- 9864 -- Polarization and Social Change Lab -- Our work is focused on developing practical scientific knowledge in three main areas: paths to political consensus, reducing harms of polarization, and effective strategies of social activism.
ID# 9866 -- 9866 -- Finding the Way Out: A Once-a- Day Political Courage Challenge -- This is an invitation to look deeply but kindly within yourself and work with others to fight the toxic division that’s tearing our country apart. Based on the research of our colleague Peter Coleman.
ID# 9866 -- 9866 -- Finding the Way Out: A Once-a- Day Political Courage Challenge -- This is an invitation to look deeply but kindly within yourself and work with others to fight the toxic division that’s tearing our country apart. Based on the research of our colleague Peter Coleman.
ID# 9867 -- 9867 -- Climate Protest Tracker -- A one-stop source for following global trends in climate policy protests since 2022 from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
ID# 9867 -- 9867 -- Climate Protest Tracker -- A one-stop source for following global trends in climate policy protests since 2022 from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
ID# 9868 -- 9868 -- The New Pluralists -- New Pluralists is a funder collaborative focused on supporting the growing field of practitioners, storytellers, researchers, and innovators working to foster a culture of pluralism in America.
ID# 9868 -- 9868 -- The New Pluralists -- New Pluralists is a funder collaborative focused on supporting the growing field of practitioners, storytellers, researchers, and innovators working to foster a culture of pluralism in America.
ID# 9868 -- 9868 -- The New Pluralists -- New Pluralists is a funder collaborative focused on supporting the growing field of practitioners, storytellers, researchers, and innovators working to foster a culture of pluralism in America.
ID# 9869 -- 9869 -- The Persuaders -- A new book by Anand Giridharadas that profiles activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens who are effectively changing minds, bridging divisions, and fighting for democracy.
ID# 9870 -- 9870 -- Bridging Divides & Strengthening Democracy: From Science to Practice -- The conference presented the approaches that most effectively reduced anti-democratic attitudes, support for political violence, and partisan animosity. Recordings of the sessions are available here.
ID# 9870 -- 9870 -- Bridging Divides & Strengthening Democracy: From Science to Practice -- The conference presented the approaches that most effectively reduced anti-democratic attitudes, support for political violence, and partisan animosity. Recordings of the sessions are available here.
ID# 9871 -- 9871 -- Ending This Zombie Apocalypse: How to Have Better Political Conversations -- From The Village Square, a websinar with Kristin Hansen of the Civic Health Project and Robb Willer (Prof. of Sociology and Director of the Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford, and Kristin Hansen of the Civic Health Project.
ID# 9871 -- 9871 -- Ending This Zombie Apocalypse: How to Have Better Political Conversations -- From The Village Square, a websinar with Kristin Hansen of the Civic Health Project and Robb Willer (Prof. of Sociology and Director of the Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford, and Kristin Hansen of the Civic Health Project.
ID# 9872 -- 9872 -- BridgeUSA -- BridgeUSA is a youth-led nonprofit organization that creates spaces on high school and college campuses for open discussion between students about political issues.
ID# 9872 -- 9872 -- BridgeUSA -- BridgeUSA is a youth-led nonprofit organization that creates spaces on high school and college campuses for open discussion between students about political issues.
ID# 9872 -- 9872 -- BridgeUSA -- BridgeUSA is a youth-led nonprofit organization that creates spaces on high school and college campuses for open discussion between students about political issues.
ID# 9873 -- 9873 -- Citizenship and American Identity Program--The Aspen Institute -- This program explores the question of what it means to be American, and how to promote a shared sense of national identity in an age of demographic flux and severe inequality.
ID# 9873 -- 9873 -- Citizenship and American Identity Program--The Aspen Institute -- This program explores the question of what it means to be American, and how to promote a shared sense of national identity in an age of demographic flux and severe inequality.
ID# 9873 -- 9873 -- Citizenship and American Identity Program--The Aspen Institute -- This program explores the question of what it means to be American, and how to promote a shared sense of national identity in an age of demographic flux and severe inequality.
ID# 9875 -- 9875 -- Higher Ed’s Delicate Dance: Safeguarding Freedoms and Stewarding Culture -- Kristen Hansen examines curricular and co-curricular (outside the classroom) approaches to navigating political conflicts on college campuses.
ID# 9875 -- 9875 -- Higher Ed’s Delicate Dance: Safeguarding Freedoms and Stewarding Culture -- Kristen Hansen examines curricular and co-curricular (outside the classroom) approaches to navigating political conflicts on college campuses.
ID# 9876 -- 9876 -- Creating Space for Democracy: A Primer on Dialogue and Deliberation in Higher Education -- A set of case studies illustrating ways different campuses have successfully navigated the political conflicts that are riling so many colleges and universities.
ID# 9876 -- 9876 -- Creating Space for Democracy: A Primer on Dialogue and Deliberation in Higher Education -- A set of case studies illustrating ways different campuses have successfully navigated the political conflicts that are riling so many colleges and universities.
ID# 9877 -- 9877 -- Mapping Civic Measurement: How Are We Assessing Readiness and Opportunities for an Engaged Citizenry? -- A report on a review of existing resources and tools we can sue to evaluate the success of efforts to improve our constitutional democracy.
ID# 9877 -- 9877 -- Mapping Civic Measurement: How Are We Assessing Readiness and Opportunities for an Engaged Citizenry? -- A report on a review of existing resources and tools we can sue to evaluate the success of efforts to improve our constitutional democracy.
ID# 9878 -- 9878 -- The State of Public Discourse on Campus -- Episode 9 of Areas of Agreement, a podcast featuring students and faculty discussing the need for viewpoint diversity and constructgive disagreement on campuses.
ID# 9878 -- 9878 -- The State of Public Discourse on Campus -- Episode 9 of Areas of Agreement, a podcast featuring students and faculty discussing the need for viewpoint diversity and constructgive disagreement on campuses.
ID# 9879 -- 9879 -- "Entangled" Social Change: From Inter-action to "Intra-action" -- An insightful look at how we are all part of the conflict system, and how simply observing it is also an intervention. So HOW we observe and interpret is key.
ID# 9879 -- 9879 -- "Entangled" Social Change: From Inter-action to "Intra-action" -- An insightful look at how we are all part of the conflict system, and how simply observing it is also an intervention. So HOW we observe and interpret is key.
ID# 9881 -- 9881 -- “Woke” is a Perfectly Meaningful Word - Better Conflict Bulletin #43 -- An examination of what the term means, how it is used, and how it is used as an excuse--by both progressives and conservatives to avoid talking about real issues.
ID# 9881 -- 9881 -- “Woke” is a Perfectly Meaningful Word - Better Conflict Bulletin #43 -- An examination of what the term means, how it is used, and how it is used as an excuse--by both progressives and conservatives to avoid talking about real issues.
ID# 9882 -- 9882 -- The Paradox of Transformation: Acceptance as a Precondition to Change -- An insightful article from NetworkWeaver about Carl Rogers' paradox: The curious paradox is that when I accept myself, just as I am, then I can change.
ID# 9882 -- 9882 -- The Paradox of Transformation: Acceptance as a Precondition to Change -- An insightful article from NetworkWeaver about Carl Rogers' paradox: The curious paradox is that when I accept myself, just as I am, then I can change.
ID# 9884 -- 9884 -- Youth-Inclusive Guide to Peace Mediation -- Mediation processes that include young people are more likely to generate better conflict analyses, broader national ownership, greater legitimacy, and improved prospects of more sustainable peace.
ID# 9884 -- 9884 -- Youth-Inclusive Guide to Peace Mediation -- Mediation processes that include young people are more likely to generate better conflict analyses, broader national ownership, greater legitimacy, and improved prospects of more sustainable peace.
ID# 9884 -- 9884 -- Youth-Inclusive Guide to Peace Mediation -- Mediation processes that include young people are more likely to generate better conflict analyses, broader national ownership, greater legitimacy, and improved prospects of more sustainable peace.
ID# 9885 -- 9885 -- Does our anger at the “other side” help create the very things we’re angry about? -- If one wants to defeat extreme views on the other side (or on both sides), the way to achieve that goal is to take a depolarizing, anger-reducing, de-escalating approach.
ID# 9886 -- 9886 -- ONE TEAM: Using sports to build bridges between Jewish and Bedouin teenage girls -- During these heart-wrenching times in Israel, Danny Hakim's inspiring work offers a touching, optimistic, much-needed break from the painful daily Israeli news cycle.
ID# 9886 -- 9886 -- ONE TEAM: Using sports to build bridges between Jewish and Bedouin teenage girls -- During these heart-wrenching times in Israel, Danny Hakim's inspiring work offers a touching, optimistic, much-needed break from the painful daily Israeli news cycle.
ID# 9887 -- 9887 -- Americans seek stories of solutions and inspiration from the media -- From More in Common, a study showing Americans want the media to provide a balance of positive and negative stories and more solutions-oriented reporting
ID# 9887 -- 9887 -- Americans seek stories of solutions and inspiration from the media -- From More in Common, a study showing Americans want the media to provide a balance of positive and negative stories and more solutions-oriented reporting
ID# 9887 -- 9887 -- Americans seek stories of solutions and inspiration from the media -- From More in Common, a study showing Americans want the media to provide a balance of positive and negative stories and more solutions-oriented reporting
ID# 9888 -- 9888 -- A Tale of Two Karens -- They are political polar opposites, but through Braver Angels, they’re forging a path toward productive conversations, and even friendship.
ID# 9888 -- 9888 -- A Tale of Two Karens -- They are political polar opposites, but through Braver Angels, they’re forging a path toward productive conversations, and even friendship.
ID# 9888 -- 9888 -- A Tale of Two Karens -- They are political polar opposites, but through Braver Angels, they’re forging a path toward productive conversations, and even friendship.
ID# 9890 -- 9890 -- AllSides for Schools -- AllSides provides tools and activities teachers can use with students to help cultivate their skills and proficiency in bias awareness, news literacy, and dialogue across differences.
ID# 9890 -- 9890 -- AllSides for Schools -- AllSides provides tools and activities teachers can use with students to help cultivate their skills and proficiency in bias awareness, news literacy, and dialogue across differences.
ID# 9892 -- 9892 -- The Networks Festival -- The Fito Network's "Network Festival" seeks to bring together (online and in person) 1000s of people from other networks to deepen understanding of how we leverage relationships to transform the world.
ID# 9892 -- 9892 -- The Networks Festival -- The Fito Network's "Network Festival" seeks to bring together (online and in person) 1000s of people from other networks to deepen understanding of how we leverage relationships to transform the world.
ID# 9893 -- 9893 -- PeaceCon 2023 -- The "Skinny Agenda" is out for the Alliance for Peacebuilding annual meeting to be held May 3-5 in-person and online.
ID# 9895 -- 9895 -- Speaking Out to Strengthen the Guardrails of Democracy -- A new report from the Ohio State University Divided Communities Project focusing on how effective speech can encourage hope, counteract fear and hate, and strengthen democracy.
ID# 9895 -- 9895 -- Speaking Out to Strengthen the Guardrails of Democracy -- A new report from the Ohio State University Divided Communities Project focusing on how effective speech can encourage hope, counteract fear and hate, and strengthen democracy.
ID# 9896 -- 9896 -- Backfire Basics -- A primer from the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict on how to create backlash against injustice, making it less likely to "get away with it."
ID# 9896 -- 9896 -- Backfire Basics -- A primer from the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict on how to create backlash against injustice, making it less likely to "get away with it."
ID# 9898 -- 9898 -- Vengeance or Forgiveness -- An exploration of the thinking of the conservative right. We must be able to "walk in the shoes of the other" to heal this nation. Here's one step.
ID# 9898 -- 9898 -- Vengeance or Forgiveness -- An exploration of the thinking of the conservative right. We must be able to "walk in the shoes of the other" to heal this nation. Here's one step.
ID# 9899 -- 9899 -- New and Old Wars, New and Old Challenges to Peace! -- A discussion at Notre Dame wondering if nonviolence and nuclear disarmament are new moral and policy imperatives, or if current events call for continuing the just war tradition and strengthened nuclear deterrence?
ID# 9899 -- 9899 -- New and Old Wars, New and Old Challenges to Peace! -- A discussion at Notre Dame wondering if nonviolence and nuclear disarmament are new moral and policy imperatives, or if current events call for continuing the just war tradition and strengthened nuclear deterrence?
ID# 9901 -- 9901 -- 3 Collaborative Practices for Advancing Social Impact -- Know what you're good at and what your partners can do better, find the most powerful leverage point, and allow for failure and learn from it and the three practices highlighted here.
ID# 9901 -- 9901 -- 3 Collaborative Practices for Advancing Social Impact -- Know what you're good at and what your partners can do better, find the most powerful leverage point, and allow for failure and learn from it and the three practices highlighted here.
ID# 9904 -- 9904 -- Building The Bridge To Peace: Reframing Peace And Peacebuilding -- A discussion of existing mindsents around peacebuilding; research-based suggestions for reframing the way we present this work to outsiders so they understand what it involves.
ID# 9904 -- 9904 -- Building The Bridge To Peace: Reframing Peace And Peacebuilding -- A discussion of existing mindsents around peacebuilding; research-based suggestions for reframing the way we present this work to outsiders so they understand what it involves.
ID# 9904 -- 9904 -- Building The Bridge To Peace: Reframing Peace And Peacebuilding -- A discussion of existing mindsents around peacebuilding; research-based suggestions for reframing the way we present this work to outsiders so they understand what it involves.
ID# 9908 -- 9908 -- A Pivot To Prevention: How The 118th Congress Can Prevent Violent Conflict & Build Peace Globally -- A briefing book for the U.S. Congress (and interested others) on what Congress can do to further peace in 2023.
ID# 9908 -- 9908 -- A Pivot To Prevention: How The 118th Congress Can Prevent Violent Conflict & Build Peace Globally -- A briefing book for the U.S. Congress (and interested others) on what Congress can do to further peace in 2023.
ID# 9909 -- 9909 -- Digital Peacebuiling -- A description of an "open community of practice" to advance the analysis and response to online conflict dynamics and harnessing digital tools to further peacebuilding success.
ID# 9909 -- 9909 -- Digital Peacebuiling -- A description of an "open community of practice" to advance the analysis and response to online conflict dynamics and harnessing digital tools to further peacebuilding success.
ID# 9910 -- 9910 -- Locally-Led Peacebuilding: From Policy To Action -- A call for a "tectonic shift" in donor culture and operations to overcome existing barriers to locally-led peacebuilding efforts.
ID# 9910 -- 9910 -- Locally-Led Peacebuilding: From Policy To Action -- A call for a "tectonic shift" in donor culture and operations to overcome existing barriers to locally-led peacebuilding efforts.
ID# 9911 -- 9911 -- Join Restorative Justice Map & Directory Launch List -- 0
ID# 9912 -- 9912 -- National Week of Conversation -- For those exhausted by division and hatred, join others from across the countryApril 17-2 to explore better ways of relating to each other.
ID# 9912 -- 9912 -- National Week of Conversation -- For those exhausted by division and hatred, join others from across the countryApril 17-2 to explore better ways of relating to each other.
ID# 9913 -- 9913 -- Creating a Place to Belong by Pursuing Peace: Preemptive Love's 2022 Impact Report -- Peace underpins thriving communities. More than the absence of conflict, peace is the absence of worry. That's why Preemptive Love's programming addresses people's deepest concerns.
ID# 9913 -- 9913 -- Creating a Place to Belong by Pursuing Peace: Preemptive Love's 2022 Impact Report -- Peace underpins thriving communities. More than the absence of conflict, peace is the absence of worry. That's why Preemptive Love's programming addresses people's deepest concerns.
ID# 9914 -- 9914 -- Civity & the "Tough Issues" -- Learn how Civity is addressing really tough social issues by improving civic relationships.
ID# 9914 -- 9914 -- Civity & the "Tough Issues" -- Learn how Civity is addressing really tough social issues by improving civic relationships.
ID# 9915 -- 9915 -- Winter 2023 Issue of the National Civic Review -- With articles on addressing aging, racism, and creating thriving workplaces and communities.
ID# 9915 -- 9915 -- Winter 2023 Issue of the National Civic Review -- With articles on addressing aging, racism, and creating thriving workplaces and communities.
ID# 9918 -- 9918 -- A Partnership for Peace -- Search For Common Ground and Preemptive Love Coalition are merging! This strategic merger will amplify the impact of both organizations as we pursue a shared vision of advancing global peace.
ID# 9918 -- 9918 -- A Partnership for Peace -- Search For Common Ground and Preemptive Love Coalition are merging! This strategic merger will amplify the impact of both organizations as we pursue a shared vision of advancing global peace.
ID# 9919 -- 9919 -- New Study: A Promising Method to Build Trust in Information and Reduce Partisan Animosity -- A new method significantly reduced feelings of hostility between political party members to a level that resembles the political climate of the 1980s, when Republicans and Democrats got along.
ID# 9919 -- 9919 -- New Study: A Promising Method to Build Trust in Information and Reduce Partisan Animosity -- A new method significantly reduced feelings of hostility between political party members to a level that resembles the political climate of the 1980s, when Republicans and Democrats got along.
ID# 9919 -- 9919 -- New Study: A Promising Method to Build Trust in Information and Reduce Partisan Animosity -- A new method significantly reduced feelings of hostility between political party members to a level that resembles the political climate of the 1980s, when Republicans and Democrats got along.
ID# 9920 -- 9920 -- Trust in SCOTUS in the wake of Roe v. Wade -- 80% of Americans think the Supreme Court should be independent from politics. Before Dobbs, 39% thought it actually was; after Dobbs that number was down to 24%.
ID# 9920 -- 9920 -- Trust in SCOTUS in the wake of Roe v. Wade -- 80% of Americans think the Supreme Court should be independent from politics. Before Dobbs, 39% thought it actually was; after Dobbs that number was down to 24%.
ID# 9921 -- 9921 -- How Affective Polarization Undermines Support for Democratic Norms -- When in power, political parties tend to oppose constitutional protections that they support when they are out of power -- a tendency that undermines efforts to cultivate broadly supported norms.
ID# 9921 -- 9921 -- How Affective Polarization Undermines Support for Democratic Norms -- When in power, political parties tend to oppose constitutional protections that they support when they are out of power -- a tendency that undermines efforts to cultivate broadly supported norms.
ID# 9922 -- 9922 -- Two Stories of Distrust In America -- Fewer than 1/4 of Americans believe the federal government, American corporations, and national media to be honest. Why?
ID# 9922 -- 9922 -- Two Stories of Distrust In America -- Fewer than 1/4 of Americans believe the federal government, American corporations, and national media to be honest. Why?
ID# 9923 -- 9923 -- Leveraging solutions journalism for revenue growth -- If media organizations produce solutions journalism, will they generate more revenue? YES! (With caveats)
ID# 9923 -- 9923 -- Leveraging solutions journalism for revenue growth -- If media organizations produce solutions journalism, will they generate more revenue? YES! (With caveats)
ID# 9923 -- 9923 -- Leveraging solutions journalism for revenue growth -- If media organizations produce solutions journalism, will they generate more revenue? YES! (With caveats)
ID# 9924 -- 9924 -- How The Current uses community listening and solutions journalism to make an impact in Louisiana. -- A video showing how one community uses solutions journalism to hold local government accountable and to explore opportunities for mutually beneficial problem-solving.
ID# 9924 -- 9924 -- How The Current uses community listening and solutions journalism to make an impact in Louisiana. -- A video showing how one community uses solutions journalism to hold local government accountable and to explore opportunities for mutually beneficial problem-solving.
ID# 9925 -- 9925 -- Can Spanish and English speakers thrive in the same city? -- In Emporia, KS, a small group of residents is working to make the community more cohesive and welcoming to Spanish-speakers and immigrants by practicing Spanish together. But is that enough?
ID# 9925 -- 9925 -- Can Spanish and English speakers thrive in the same city? -- In Emporia, KS, a small group of residents is working to make the community more cohesive and welcoming to Spanish-speakers and immigrants by practicing Spanish together. But is that enough?
ID# 9926 -- 9926 -- Divided Community Project -- DCP provides dispute resolution and systems-design expertise to help local community and university leaders enhance community resiliency and prepare for and respond to events that polarize their communities.
ID# 9926 -- 9926 -- Divided Community Project -- DCP provides dispute resolution and systems-design expertise to help local community and university leaders enhance community resiliency and prepare for and respond to events that polarize their communities.
ID# 9926 -- 9926 -- Divided Community Project -- DCP provides dispute resolution and systems-design expertise to help local community and university leaders enhance community resiliency and prepare for and respond to events that polarize their communities.
ID# 9927 -- 9927 -- Moving From Ladders of Engagement to Self-Organizing As Decentralized Leadership -- A description of a self-organizing strategy for producing a decentralized, non-hierarchical type of engagement and leadership that is better suited to the demands of large and complex societies.
ID# 9927 -- 9927 -- Moving From Ladders of Engagement to Self-Organizing As Decentralized Leadership -- A description of a self-organizing strategy for producing a decentralized, non-hierarchical type of engagement and leadership that is better suited to the demands of large and complex societies.
ID# 9928 -- 9928 -- Empathy Circle Game -- The Empathy Circle Game was created to enrich listening and communication skills through a series of engaging in-person group activities.
ID# 9928 -- 9928 -- Empathy Circle Game -- The Empathy Circle Game was created to enrich listening and communication skills through a series of engaging in-person group activities.
ID# 9928 -- 9928 -- Empathy Circle Game -- The Empathy Circle Game was created to enrich listening and communication skills through a series of engaging in-person group activities.
ID# 9928 -- 9928 -- Empathy Circle Game -- The Empathy Circle Game was created to enrich listening and communication skills through a series of engaging in-person group activities.
ID# 9929 -- 9929 -- Conversations That Matter -- A free guide from the Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom to inspire conversations about values based on their "guidelines for life."
ID# 9929 -- 9929 -- Conversations That Matter -- A free guide from the Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom to inspire conversations about values based on their "guidelines for life."
ID# 9929 -- 9929 -- Conversations That Matter -- A free guide from the Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom to inspire conversations about values based on their "guidelines for life."
ID# 9930 -- 9930 -- Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding -- Podcasts highlighting the experiences of international religiously-motivated peacebuilders, plus many more text profiles of religious peacebuilders with descriptions of their work.
ID# 9930 -- 9930 -- Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding -- Podcasts highlighting the experiences of international religiously-motivated peacebuilders, plus many more text profiles of religious peacebuilders with descriptions of their work.
ID# 9930 -- 9930 -- Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding -- Podcasts highlighting the experiences of international religiously-motivated peacebuilders, plus many more text profiles of religious peacebuilders with descriptions of their work.
ID# 9930 -- 9930 -- Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding -- Podcasts highlighting the experiences of international religiously-motivated peacebuilders, plus many more text profiles of religious peacebuilders with descriptions of their work.
ID# 9931 -- 9931 -- The Village Square--Chris Stirewalt: Broken News -- A former Fox News political editor gives an inside view of the rage-driven political environment in which we find ourselves.
ID# 9931 -- 9931 -- The Village Square--Chris Stirewalt: Broken News -- A former Fox News political editor gives an inside view of the rage-driven political environment in which we find ourselves.
ID# 9931 -- 9931 -- The Village Square--Chris Stirewalt: Broken News -- A former Fox News political editor gives an inside view of the rage-driven political environment in which we find ourselves.
ID# 9932 -- 9932 -- Bridging divides in the workplace -- Many companies are witnessing how contentious social and political issues create workplace conflict and reduce productivity. A look at how businesses can help repair America’s social fabric — both in and out of the workplace.
ID# 9932 -- 9932 -- Bridging divides in the workplace -- Many companies are witnessing how contentious social and political issues create workplace conflict and reduce productivity. A look at how businesses can help repair America’s social fabric — both in and out of the workplace.
ID# 9933 -- 9933 -- Five Calls-to Action from the 2022 Facing Race Conference -- Calls included: 1) don't be afraid of backlash--it means we're winning. 2) reconnect, 3) expose white nationalism for the threat it is, 4) Stop internal implosions, and 5) Look and move forward.
ID# 9933 -- 9933 -- Five Calls-to Action from the 2022 Facing Race Conference -- Calls included: 1) don't be afraid of backlash--it means we're winning. 2) reconnect, 3) expose white nationalism for the threat it is, 4) Stop internal implosions, and 5) Look and move forward.
ID# 9933 -- 9933 -- Five Calls-to Action from the 2022 Facing Race Conference -- Calls included: 1) don't be afraid of backlash--it means we're winning. 2) reconnect, 3) expose white nationalism for the threat it is, 4) Stop internal implosions, and 5) Look and move forward.
ID# 9934 -- 9934 -- Fight the Return of the Old Normal: A Guidebook for Envisioning a Racially Just & Transformative Future -- We can choose to live in the “old normal” of racial injustice and human exhaustion or we can imagine and design a "new normal" built around a vision for a better future.
ID# 9934 -- 9934 -- Fight the Return of the Old Normal: A Guidebook for Envisioning a Racially Just & Transformative Future -- We can choose to live in the “old normal” of racial injustice and human exhaustion or we can imagine and design a "new normal" built around a vision for a better future.
ID# 9935 -- 9935 -- Can ChatGPT Boost Your Civic Engagement? -- Here's a cautionary story about ChatGPT--it gets somethings right, but surprisingly, seems to make other things up! (No surprise, actually, there are plenty of fake facts on the web for it to choose from.)
ID# 9935 -- 9935 -- Can ChatGPT Boost Your Civic Engagement? -- Here's a cautionary story about ChatGPT--it gets somethings right, but surprisingly, seems to make other things up! (No surprise, actually, there are plenty of fake facts on the web for it to choose from.)
ID# 9935 -- 9935 -- Can ChatGPT Boost Your Civic Engagement? -- Here's a cautionary story about ChatGPT--it gets somethings right, but surprisingly, seems to make other things up! (No surprise, actually, there are plenty of fake facts on the web for it to choose from.)
ID# 9938 -- 9938 -- Civility, civil disobedience or something in between -- When does civility become compliance and when does activism that might further divide serve a tactical function that outweighs a more passive approach? A bridge-builder considers this question.
ID# 9938 -- 9938 -- Civility, civil disobedience or something in between -- When does civility become compliance and when does activism that might further divide serve a tactical function that outweighs a more passive approach? A bridge-builder considers this question.
ID# 9941 -- 9941 -- Weighing difficult choices for a more promising future -- Our choices will determine whether we continue on the path of dehumanizing one another in ways that fracture society and promote conflict, or will we change directions so that America can thrive again.
ID# 9941 -- 9941 -- Weighing difficult choices for a more promising future -- Our choices will determine whether we continue on the path of dehumanizing one another in ways that fracture society and promote conflict, or will we change directions so that America can thrive again.
ID# 9942 -- 9942 -- Bridging Divides & Cultivating Solidarity to Counter Strategic Racism, with Ian Haney López -- A podcast exploring how engaging across our racial and class divides and cultivating solidarity can help bring us together to care for and nurture our democracy.
ID# 9942 -- 9942 -- Bridging Divides & Cultivating Solidarity to Counter Strategic Racism, with Ian Haney López -- A podcast exploring how engaging across our racial and class divides and cultivating solidarity can help bring us together to care for and nurture our democracy.
ID# 9943 -- 9943 -- Dialogue Lab: America | Documentary Film (2022) -- A video about Ideos Institute's experiment testing whether constructive dialogue is possible in today’s polarized culture, and if so, how dialogue might be a first step in healing our nation.
ID# 9943 -- 9943 -- Dialogue Lab: America | Documentary Film (2022) -- A video about Ideos Institute's experiment testing whether constructive dialogue is possible in today’s polarized culture, and if so, how dialogue might be a first step in healing our nation.
ID# 9944 -- 9944 -- In This Together -- A campaign to help save the environment and repair our democracy by growing a diverse bipartisan community of America’s silenced majority: common sense problem-solvers willing to overcome fear, anger, and division.
ID# 9944 -- 9944 -- In This Together -- A campaign to help save the environment and repair our democracy by growing a diverse bipartisan community of America’s silenced majority: common sense problem-solvers willing to overcome fear, anger, and division.
ID# 9944 -- 9944 -- In This Together -- A campaign to help save the environment and repair our democracy by growing a diverse bipartisan community of America’s silenced majority: common sense problem-solvers willing to overcome fear, anger, and division.
ID# 9945 -- 9945 -- With no waitstaff, menus or regular hours, this café isn't your average coffee house -- A restraurateur provides the opportunity for meaningful interactions with people whose paths may not otherwise cross while learning something new — and maybe gaining a new perspective or even a friend.
ID# 9945 -- 9945 -- With no waitstaff, menus or regular hours, this café isn't your average coffee house -- A restraurateur provides the opportunity for meaningful interactions with people whose paths may not otherwise cross while learning something new — and maybe gaining a new perspective or even a friend.
ID# 9946 -- 9946 -- Collaborating Across Differences to Reduce Authoritarianism: A Literature Review -- A literature review exploring the question: What are the practices that support groups that come together to collaborate across differences to reduce authoritarianism?
ID# 9946 -- 9946 -- Collaborating Across Differences to Reduce Authoritarianism: A Literature Review -- A literature review exploring the question: What are the practices that support groups that come together to collaborate across differences to reduce authoritarianism?
ID# 9946 -- 9946 -- Collaborating Across Differences to Reduce Authoritarianism: A Literature Review -- A literature review exploring the question: What are the practices that support groups that come together to collaborate across differences to reduce authoritarianism?
ID# 9946 -- 9946 -- Collaborating Across Differences to Reduce Authoritarianism: A Literature Review -- A literature review exploring the question: What are the practices that support groups that come together to collaborate across differences to reduce authoritarianism?
ID# 9946 -- 9946 -- Collaborating Across Differences to Reduce Authoritarianism: A Literature Review -- A literature review exploring the question: What are the practices that support groups that come together to collaborate across differences to reduce authoritarianism?
ID# 9948 -- 9948 -- Defusing American Anger -- A new, free online book by Zachary Elwood that shows how to better understand our fellow citizens and reduce our us-vs-them divides.
ID# 9948 -- 9948 -- Defusing American Anger -- A new, free online book by Zachary Elwood that shows how to better understand our fellow citizens and reduce our us-vs-them divides.
ID# 9949 -- 9949 -- Principles of Ethical Government -- Mormon Women's Principles of Ethical Government are good advice for everyone. They stress the importance of the rule of law, human rights, civic duties, and mutual accountability.
ID# 9949 -- 9949 -- Principles of Ethical Government -- Mormon Women's Principles of Ethical Government are good advice for everyone. They stress the importance of the rule of law, human rights, civic duties, and mutual accountability.
ID# 9949 -- 9949 -- Principles of Ethical Government -- Mormon Women's Principles of Ethical Government are good advice for everyone. They stress the importance of the rule of law, human rights, civic duties, and mutual accountability.
ID# 9949 -- 9949 -- Principles of Ethical Government -- Mormon Women's Principles of Ethical Government are good advice for everyone. They stress the importance of the rule of law, human rights, civic duties, and mutual accountability.
ID# 9950 -- 9950 -- International Storytelling Center -- The International Storytelling Center believes that storytelling can yield a better life and a better world for the tellers and the listeners.
ID# 9950 -- 9950 -- International Storytelling Center -- The International Storytelling Center believes that storytelling can yield a better life and a better world for the tellers and the listeners.
ID# 9950 -- 9950 -- International Storytelling Center -- The International Storytelling Center believes that storytelling can yield a better life and a better world for the tellers and the listeners.
ID# 9950 -- 9950 -- International Storytelling Center -- The International Storytelling Center believes that storytelling can yield a better life and a better world for the tellers and the listeners.
ID# 9950 -- 9950 -- International Storytelling Center -- The International Storytelling Center believes that storytelling can yield a better life and a better world for the tellers and the listeners.
ID# 9952 -- 9952 -- Fighting for a U.S. federal budget that prioritizes peace, economic security and shared prosperity -- An online tool to explore budget trade-offs between the military and other spending priorities. The National Priorities Project asserts that the budget should reflect our priorities--but does it?
ID# 9953 -- 9953 -- Nonviolence News -- Each week, Nonviolence News brings 30-50 stories of “nonviolence in action” to readers, illuminating the scale and scope of how nonviolence is actively shaping our world.
ID# 9953 -- 9953 -- Nonviolence News -- Each week, Nonviolence News brings 30-50 stories of “nonviolence in action” to readers, illuminating the scale and scope of how nonviolence is actively shaping our world.
ID# 9953 -- 9953 -- Nonviolence News -- Each week, Nonviolence News brings 30-50 stories of “nonviolence in action” to readers, illuminating the scale and scope of how nonviolence is actively shaping our world.
ID# 9954 -- 9954 -- Negotiation: A Very Short Introduction -- Leading negotiation scholar Carrie Menkel-Meadow's basic book highlighting things everyone should understand about negotiation.
ID# 9954 -- 9954 -- Negotiation: A Very Short Introduction -- Leading negotiation scholar Carrie Menkel-Meadow's basic book highlighting things everyone should understand about negotiation.
ID# 9954 -- 9954 -- Negotiation: A Very Short Introduction -- Leading negotiation scholar Carrie Menkel-Meadow's basic book highlighting things everyone should understand about negotiation.
ID# 9955 -- 9955 -- The Belonging Barometer: The State of Belonging in America -- The Belonging Barometer calls attention to belonging as a critical dimension of life that should matter to all stakeholders who seek to improve America’s physical, social, civic, and democratic well-being.
ID# 9955 -- 9955 -- The Belonging Barometer: The State of Belonging in America -- The Belonging Barometer calls attention to belonging as a critical dimension of life that should matter to all stakeholders who seek to improve America’s physical, social, civic, and democratic well-being.
ID# 9956 -- 9956 -- Is it still possible to change minds in politics? -- A conversation about the possibility and difficulty of persuasion in a time of polarization, disinformation, conspiracy theories, political violence, and more. Is it still possible to reach people?
ID# 9956 -- 9956 -- Is it still possible to change minds in politics? -- A conversation about the possibility and difficulty of persuasion in a time of polarization, disinformation, conspiracy theories, political violence, and more. Is it still possible to reach people?
ID# 9958 -- 9958 -- The Rise of a Pro-Democracy Coalition -- William Kristol and Simon Rosenberg discuss how a coalition between Democrats and Never-Trumpers could form a successful coalition to help save democracy.
ID# 9958 -- 9958 -- The Rise of a Pro-Democracy Coalition -- William Kristol and Simon Rosenberg discuss how a coalition between Democrats and Never-Trumpers could form a successful coalition to help save democracy.
ID# 9961 -- 9961 -- Moving Beyond Partisan Polarization: Some First Steps -- From Essential Partners: 5 steps (with detailed questions for each) to have illuminating conversations with yourself, allies, and others to reduce polarization.
ID# 9961 -- 9961 -- Moving Beyond Partisan Polarization: Some First Steps -- From Essential Partners: 5 steps (with detailed questions for each) to have illuminating conversations with yourself, allies, and others to reduce polarization.
ID# 9961 -- 9961 -- Moving Beyond Partisan Polarization: Some First Steps -- From Essential Partners: 5 steps (with detailed questions for each) to have illuminating conversations with yourself, allies, and others to reduce polarization.
ID# 9962 -- 9962 -- US politics isn't broken. It's fixed -- Katherine Gehl says the U.S. political system is working as designed. Yet we can make it better with voting innovations that give voers more choice and incentivize politicians to work towards progress.
ID# 9962 -- 9962 -- US politics isn't broken. It's fixed -- Katherine Gehl says the U.S. political system is working as designed. Yet we can make it better with voting innovations that give voers more choice and incentivize politicians to work towards progress.
ID# 9969 -- 9969 -- Climate Security: Finding Shared Solutions to Shared Challenges -- ConnexUs's knowledge-sharing campaign is designed to promote discussion, shared learning and collaboration among peacebuilding, development, and humanitarian practitioners working on climate issues.
ID# 9969 -- 9969 -- Climate Security: Finding Shared Solutions to Shared Challenges -- ConnexUs's knowledge-sharing campaign is designed to promote discussion, shared learning and collaboration among peacebuilding, development, and humanitarian practitioners working on climate issues.
ID# 9971 -- 9971 -- Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center -- DDNRC seeks to ensure that college campuses sustain freedom of expression and academic freedom, promote pluralism, and expand opportunities for constructive communication across different perspectives.
ID# 9971 -- 9971 -- Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center -- DDNRC seeks to ensure that college campuses sustain freedom of expression and academic freedom, promote pluralism, and expand opportunities for constructive communication across different perspectives.
ID# 9971 -- 9971 -- Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center -- DDNRC seeks to ensure that college campuses sustain freedom of expression and academic freedom, promote pluralism, and expand opportunities for constructive communication across different perspectives.
ID# 9977 -- 9977 -- Youth Talk: Youth Vocies for Change -- This initiative of Search for Common Ground empowered a group of more than 100 young radio journalists to report on local conflicts and create radio programs to help people find common ground.
ID# 9977 -- 9977 -- Youth Talk: Youth Vocies for Change -- This initiative of Search for Common Ground empowered a group of more than 100 young radio journalists to report on local conflicts and create radio programs to help people find common ground.
ID# 9977 -- 9977 -- Youth Talk: Youth Vocies for Change -- This initiative of Search for Common Ground empowered a group of more than 100 young radio journalists to report on local conflicts and create radio programs to help people find common ground.
ID# 9984 -- 9984 -- How to Encourage Civility From Politicians? Give Them a Score -- The Dignity Index encourages everyone, politicians and others, to check their speech and consider whether it dignifies or degrades those they see as political opponents.
ID# 9984 -- 9984 -- How to Encourage Civility From Politicians? Give Them a Score -- The Dignity Index encourages everyone, politicians and others, to check their speech and consider whether it dignifies or degrades those they see as political opponents.
ID# 9985 -- 9985 -- Listen, Watch, Read, Experience A Better America! -- Scores of on-demand videos about ways to bring people together across political divides.
ID# 9985 -- 9985 -- Listen, Watch, Read, Experience A Better America! -- Scores of on-demand videos about ways to bring people together across political divides.
ID# 9985 -- 9985 -- Listen, Watch, Read, Experience A Better America! -- Scores of on-demand videos about ways to bring people together across political divides.
ID# 9987 -- 9987 -- Finding Common Ground on Election Reform -- Free and fair elections are at the cornerstone of our democracy, yet many Americans feel disenfranchised about their ability to cast a ballot. Can we reach agreement on how to fix that?
ID# 9987 -- 9987 -- Finding Common Ground on Election Reform -- Free and fair elections are at the cornerstone of our democracy, yet many Americans feel disenfranchised about their ability to cast a ballot. Can we reach agreement on how to fix that?
ID# 9987 -- 9987 -- Finding Common Ground on Election Reform -- Free and fair elections are at the cornerstone of our democracy, yet many Americans feel disenfranchised about their ability to cast a ballot. Can we reach agreement on how to fix that?
ID# 9989 -- 9989 -- AMERICA'S DIVIDED MIND | Video Intervention -- This video is an attempt to correct partisan misperceptions and create a space for Americans to cooperate to address the major challenges we share.
ID# 9989 -- 9989 -- AMERICA'S DIVIDED MIND | Video Intervention -- This video is an attempt to correct partisan misperceptions and create a space for Americans to cooperate to address the major challenges we share.
ID# 9990 -- 9990 -- Watch accomplished experts offer hope on the path to reconciliation -- These speakers address what reconciliation means to them. By considering their perspectives, we can begin to understand the complexity of reconciliation. These videos are an excellent reminder to resist easy answers.
ID# 9990 -- 9990 -- Watch accomplished experts offer hope on the path to reconciliation -- These speakers address what reconciliation means to them. By considering their perspectives, we can begin to understand the complexity of reconciliation. These videos are an excellent reminder to resist easy answers.
ID# 9991 -- 9991 -- What does theory of change have to do with justice and peace? -- An explanation of what "theories of change" are, and why they are useful.
ID# 9991 -- 9991 -- What does theory of change have to do with justice and peace? -- An explanation of what "theories of change" are, and why they are useful.
ID# 9992 -- 9992 -- The role and power of re-patterning in systems change. -- Shifting systems towards equity is possible. But to make that happen, it is the responsibility of everyone to start doing and being differently, in every part of every system, every day.
ID# 9992 -- 9992 -- The role and power of re-patterning in systems change. -- Shifting systems towards equity is possible. But to make that happen, it is the responsibility of everyone to start doing and being differently, in every part of every system, every day.
ID# 9994 -- 9994 -- ACTIVATING KEY PILLARS: Combatting Authoritarianism to Uphold Democracy in the United States -- A description of how key institutional pillars, notably business, faith, and media, can incentivize pro-democratic behavior and discourage authoritarian behavior at the state and federal levels.
ID# 9994 -- 9994 -- ACTIVATING KEY PILLARS: Combatting Authoritarianism to Uphold Democracy in the United States -- A description of how key institutional pillars, notably business, faith, and media, can incentivize pro-democratic behavior and discourage authoritarian behavior at the state and federal levels.
ID# 9994 -- 9994 -- ACTIVATING KEY PILLARS: Combatting Authoritarianism to Uphold Democracy in the United States -- A description of how key institutional pillars, notably business, faith, and media, can incentivize pro-democratic behavior and discourage authoritarian behavior at the state and federal levels.
ID# 9995 -- 9995 -- Combatting Authoritarianism: The Skills and Infrastructure Needed to Organize Across Difference -- An article arguing that it is time to face the authoritarian threat in the United States and begin organizing, using peacebuilding strategies, to build a cross-cause, multi-sector movement.
ID# 9997 -- 9997 -- Our Relationship to The Future: Narratives, Imagination Skills and Futures Literacy -- A discussion of and resources to help people envision positive futures while also engaging honestly with the past.
ID# 9997 -- 9997 -- Our Relationship to The Future: Narratives, Imagination Skills and Futures Literacy -- A discussion of and resources to help people envision positive futures while also engaging honestly with the past.
ID# 10005 -- 10005 -- Narrative Competency -- A short description of the meaning of narrative competancy, together with annotated links to 15 documents on how to develop and use such competence.
ID# 10005 -- 10005 -- Narrative Competency -- A short description of the meaning of narrative competancy, together with annotated links to 15 documents on how to develop and use such competence.
ID# 10005 -- 10005 -- Narrative Competency -- A short description of the meaning of narrative competancy, together with annotated links to 15 documents on how to develop and use such competence.
ID# 10007 -- 10007 -- Trauma Healing -- A short description of the costs of trauma, and approaches to trauma healing, together with annotated links to ten documents with more indepth information.
ID# 10007 -- 10007 -- Trauma Healing -- A short description of the costs of trauma, and approaches to trauma healing, together with annotated links to ten documents with more indepth information.
ID# 10008 -- 10008 -- Restorative Movement Building -- A short discussion of what "restorative movements" are, how they are built, and why they are powerful, along with 11 annotated links to further readings.
ID# 10008 -- 10008 -- Restorative Movement Building -- A short discussion of what "restorative movements" are, how they are built, and why they are powerful, along with 11 annotated links to further readings.
ID# 10009 -- 10009 -- A Practical Guide to Planning Collaborative Initiatives to Advance Racial Equity -- Ideas and illustrations on ways to help people understand the history of current racial harms, advancing racial equity, and starting healing based on actual programs at the local and state levels.
ID# 10009 -- 10009 -- A Practical Guide to Planning Collaborative Initiatives to Advance Racial Equity -- Ideas and illustrations on ways to help people understand the history of current racial harms, advancing racial equity, and starting healing based on actual programs at the local and state levels.
ID# 10011 -- 10011 -- Rethinking Systems Design for Racial Justice & Equity -- Recordings of a Spring 2022 symposium held by the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution and the Divided Community Project, with the Harvard Negotiation Program, and the Stanford Center for Conflict Resolution
ID# 10011 -- 10011 -- Rethinking Systems Design for Racial Justice & Equity -- Recordings of a Spring 2022 symposium held by the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution and the Divided Community Project, with the Harvard Negotiation Program, and the Stanford Center for Conflict Resolution
ID# 10012 -- 10012 -- The Ohio State University's Divided Community Project's Virtual Toolkit -- This toolkit is designed to support community leaders as they identify and address issues tearing at the social fabric of their respective communities with materials for on-campus and off-campus audiences.
ID# 10012 -- 10012 -- The Ohio State University's Divided Community Project's Virtual Toolkit -- This toolkit is designed to support community leaders as they identify and address issues tearing at the social fabric of their respective communities with materials for on-campus and off-campus audiences.
ID# 10013 -- 10013 -- Collaborating with the Enemy -- A summary and review of Adam Kahane's book on how to work with people you don't agree with, like, or trust.
ID# 10013 -- 10013 -- Collaborating with the Enemy -- A summary and review of Adam Kahane's book on how to work with people you don't agree with, like, or trust.
ID# 10014 -- 10014 -- The Response: The World Talks -- Bringing together people from around the world for 1:1 virtual dialogues, The World Talks is a global dialogue experiment built by a coalition of independent media partners from 15 countries.
ID# 10014 -- 10014 -- The Response: The World Talks -- Bringing together people from around the world for 1:1 virtual dialogues, The World Talks is a global dialogue experiment built by a coalition of independent media partners from 15 countries.
ID# 10015 -- 10015 -- The DNA of Organizational Transformation--Structure, Relationships & Shared Purpose -- These three elements are intertwined together, much like the strands of DNA. By working together, they can transform organizational culture and improve members' well being.
ID# 10015 -- 10015 -- The DNA of Organizational Transformation--Structure, Relationships & Shared Purpose -- These three elements are intertwined together, much like the strands of DNA. By working together, they can transform organizational culture and improve members' well being.
ID# 10016 -- 10016 -- Amplifying Sameness and Damping Difference -- Though a search for common ground is useful, it can be taken too far. Disagreement and difference are essential for learning, change, and growth. Ideas should be challenged before they are accepted.
ID# 10016 -- 10016 -- Amplifying Sameness and Damping Difference -- Though a search for common ground is useful, it can be taken too far. Disagreement and difference are essential for learning, change, and growth. Ideas should be challenged before they are accepted.
ID# 10017 -- 10017 -- The Flip Side on the Durham Report -- A presentation of views from the Left and the Right about the Durham Report on FBI and other law enforcement investigations of the Trump and Clinton Presidential campaigns.
ID# 10017 -- 10017 -- The Flip Side on the Durham Report -- A presentation of views from the Left and the Right about the Durham Report on FBI and other law enforcement investigations of the Trump and Clinton Presidential campaigns.
ID# 10018 -- 10018 -- A Guide for Building a Sustainable and Resilient Collaboration -- Five elements are required for collaborative success: a common agenda, shared measurement, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communications, and backbone infrastructure.
ID# 10018 -- 10018 -- A Guide for Building a Sustainable and Resilient Collaboration -- Five elements are required for collaborative success: a common agenda, shared measurement, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communications, and backbone infrastructure.
ID# 10019 -- 10019 -- Collective Impact -- Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
ID# 10019 -- 10019 -- Collective Impact -- Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
ID# 10019 -- 10019 -- Collective Impact -- Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
ID# 10020 -- 10020 -- Design Thinking for Social Innovation -- By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
ID# 10020 -- 10020 -- Design Thinking for Social Innovation -- By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
ID# 10022 -- 10022 -- The Dawn of System Leadership -- The deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require someone who catalyzes collective leadership.
ID# 10022 -- 10022 -- The Dawn of System Leadership -- The deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require someone who catalyzes collective leadership.
ID# 10023 -- 10023 -- The Science of What Makes People Care -- Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.
ID# 10023 -- 10023 -- The Science of What Makes People Care -- Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.
ID# 10024 -- 10024 -- Rediscovering Social Innovation -- Social entrepreneurship has become popular for those trying to improve the world, but social innovation is a better vehicle for understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations.
ID# 10024 -- 10024 -- Rediscovering Social Innovation -- Social entrepreneurship has become popular for those trying to improve the world, but social innovation is a better vehicle for understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations.
ID# 10026 -- 10026 -- Digital Community Stewards Training -- This free online training curriculum aims to help digital community stewards who host online groups prevent harm and build social cohesion through those online interactions.
ID# 10026 -- 10026 -- Digital Community Stewards Training -- This free online training curriculum aims to help digital community stewards who host online groups prevent harm and build social cohesion through those online interactions.
ID# 10026 -- 10026 -- Digital Community Stewards Training -- This free online training curriculum aims to help digital community stewards who host online groups prevent harm and build social cohesion through those online interactions.
ID# 10028 -- 10028 -- The Eight Pillars of Positive Peace -- Based on almost 25,000 indices and survey variables, the Institute for Economics and Peace identified 8 factors that are particularly important for peaceful societies.
ID# 10028 -- 10028 -- The Eight Pillars of Positive Peace -- Based on almost 25,000 indices and survey variables, the Institute for Economics and Peace identified 8 factors that are particularly important for peaceful societies.
ID# 10029 -- 10029 -- Positive Peace provides a framework to understand and then address the multiple and complex challenges the world faces. -- IEP’s empirically derived Positive Peace Framework involves the use of a systems-based approach to better understand the creation and maintenance of peaceful societies.
ID# 10029 -- 10029 -- Positive Peace provides a framework to understand and then address the multiple and complex challenges the world faces. -- IEP’s empirically derived Positive Peace Framework involves the use of a systems-based approach to better understand the creation and maintenance of peaceful societies.
ID# 10030 -- 10030 -- The Art of Collaborative Facilitation -- The crux of good facilitation is to remove the obstacles to connection and collaboration -- obstacles like disconnection, debilitating conflict, and other forms of “stuckness."
ID# 10030 -- 10030 -- The Art of Collaborative Facilitation -- The crux of good facilitation is to remove the obstacles to connection and collaboration -- obstacles like disconnection, debilitating conflict, and other forms of “stuckness."
ID# 10030 -- 10030 -- The Art of Collaborative Facilitation -- The crux of good facilitation is to remove the obstacles to connection and collaboration -- obstacles like disconnection, debilitating conflict, and other forms of “stuckness."
ID# 10031 -- 10031 -- The culture of Punishment: A Critical Approach -- The May 2023 Issue of Peace in Progress, the magazine of the International Catalan Institute for Peace has ten articles about the downsides of punishment and constructive, restorative alternatives.
ID# 10031 -- 10031 -- The culture of Punishment: A Critical Approach -- The May 2023 Issue of Peace in Progress, the magazine of the International Catalan Institute for Peace has ten articles about the downsides of punishment and constructive, restorative alternatives.
ID# 10031 -- 10031 -- The culture of Punishment: A Critical Approach -- The May 2023 Issue of Peace in Progress, the magazine of the International Catalan Institute for Peace has ten articles about the downsides of punishment and constructive, restorative alternatives.
ID# 10033 -- 10033 -- Jazz and conflict resolution -- Jazz is a great metaphor for constructive approaches to conflict. It has tension, yet creates beauty out of chaos. Everyone needs to listen to each other, exchange ideas, and find mutual inspiration.
ID# 10033 -- 10033 -- Jazz and conflict resolution -- Jazz is a great metaphor for constructive approaches to conflict. It has tension, yet creates beauty out of chaos. Everyone needs to listen to each other, exchange ideas, and find mutual inspiration.
ID# 10037 -- 10037 -- Academic Success Tip: Guide Students in Constructive Dialogue -- A University of Delaware professor shares why and how she makes dialogue about difficult-to-discuss issues a foundational skill in her classroom.
ID# 10037 -- 10037 -- Academic Success Tip: Guide Students in Constructive Dialogue -- A University of Delaware professor shares why and how she makes dialogue about difficult-to-discuss issues a foundational skill in her classroom.
ID# 10038 -- 10038 -- The Case for Teaching Students Constructive Dialogue at Scale: UNC’s New School of Civic Life and Leadership -- UNC’s new School of Civic Life and Leadership will better prepare all UNC students to engage in civic life by improving their ability to communicate constructively in the public square.
ID# 10039 -- 10039 -- Heterodox Academy wants to ‘lovingly’ push viewpoint diversity at colleges -- A description of Heterodox Academy's new Campus Community Network, starting at 23 colleges where its members will host events aimed at remolding “campus culture and institutional practices.”
ID# 10039 -- 10039 -- Heterodox Academy wants to ‘lovingly’ push viewpoint diversity at colleges -- A description of Heterodox Academy's new Campus Community Network, starting at 23 colleges where its members will host events aimed at remolding “campus culture and institutional practices.”
ID# 10039 -- 10039 -- Heterodox Academy wants to ‘lovingly’ push viewpoint diversity at colleges -- A description of Heterodox Academy's new Campus Community Network, starting at 23 colleges where its members will host events aimed at remolding “campus culture and institutional practices.”
ID# 10045 -- 10045 -- Straight Arrow News Achieves AllSides Balance Certification -- Straight Arrow News is on a mission to set a new standard for quality journalism in a time of media bias and mistrust. Allsides just awareded them a coveted "balanced" certification.
ID# 10046 -- 10046 -- Kristina Becvar's Bridge Alliance Weekly Update from July 17 -- Kristina's reflection on the relationship between calls for "civility" and standing up against authoritarianism. How do these two mesh?
ID# 10046 -- 10046 -- Kristina Becvar's Bridge Alliance Weekly Update from July 17 -- Kristina's reflection on the relationship between calls for "civility" and standing up against authoritarianism. How do these two mesh?
ID# 10047 -- 10047 -- Fighting back against authoritarianism -- Bridging organizations that bring together people with conflicting opinions should also partner with civic organizations in their area to forge stronger relationships between groups.
ID# 10047 -- 10047 -- Fighting back against authoritarianism -- Bridging organizations that bring together people with conflicting opinions should also partner with civic organizations in their area to forge stronger relationships between groups.
ID# 10047 -- 10047 -- Fighting back against authoritarianism -- Bridging organizations that bring together people with conflicting opinions should also partner with civic organizations in their area to forge stronger relationships between groups.
ID# 10054 -- 10054 -- Conflict Hacks: A Summer Survival Kit from Amanda Ripley -- Easy ideas everyone can use to defuse tension and create community.
ID# 10054 -- 10054 -- Conflict Hacks: A Summer Survival Kit from Amanda Ripley -- Easy ideas everyone can use to defuse tension and create community.
ID# 10059 -- 10059 -- Co-Intelligence Institute -- The Institute develops innovations in individual and collective wisdom, choice-making, and co-creativity, developing tools that help people and communities design effective self-governance systems.
ID# 10059 -- 10059 -- Co-Intelligence Institute -- The Institute develops innovations in individual and collective wisdom, choice-making, and co-creativity, developing tools that help people and communities design effective self-governance systems.
ID# 10065 -- 10065 -- More than Red and Blue: Political Parties and American Democracy -- A study done by the American Political Socience Association and Protect Democracy that outlines the challenges too and promise of political parties in the U.S. They are dangerous--but needed nevertheless.
ID# 10065 -- 10065 -- More than Red and Blue: Political Parties and American Democracy -- A study done by the American Political Socience Association and Protect Democracy that outlines the challenges too and promise of political parties in the U.S. They are dangerous--but needed nevertheless.
ID# 10066 -- 10066 -- Can We Transform Our Politics? Utah Governor Spencer Cox Addresses the Braver Angels Convention -- Governor Cox talks about his new "Disagree Better" Initiative which he hopes will help revive healthy American politics because, he says "the alternative is unthinkable."
ID# 10066 -- 10066 -- Can We Transform Our Politics? Utah Governor Spencer Cox Addresses the Braver Angels Convention -- Governor Cox talks about his new "Disagree Better" Initiative which he hopes will help revive healthy American politics because, he says "the alternative is unthinkable."
ID# 10068 -- 10068 -- The Resurgence of the ‘Oldest Hatred’: The Effort to Combat Antisemitism -- A panel discussion held at the Aspen, Institute with Katie Couric, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, Eric Ward and Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall talking about how to combat rising anti-semitism.
ID# 10068 -- 10068 -- The Resurgence of the ‘Oldest Hatred’: The Effort to Combat Antisemitism -- A panel discussion held at the Aspen, Institute with Katie Couric, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, Eric Ward and Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall talking about how to combat rising anti-semitism.
ID# 10071 -- 10071 -- Synergizing Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding: An Action Guide -- This guide shows how nonviolent action and peacebuilding can be used together to mobilize communities, address power imbalances and conflict drivers, and support inclusive, participatory peace processes.
ID# 10072 -- 10072 -- Toward a People-Powered Democracy -- Organizers of the 22nd Century Conference: Forging a People-Powered Democracy reflect on ways to repel the authoritarian tide and create a resilient, inclusive multiracial, feminist, and pluralistic democracy.
ID# 10072 -- 10072 -- Toward a People-Powered Democracy -- Organizers of the 22nd Century Conference: Forging a People-Powered Democracy reflect on ways to repel the authoritarian tide and create a resilient, inclusive multiracial, feminist, and pluralistic democracy.
ID# 10074 -- 10074 -- DIYcivity -- Civity launches a new Do-It Yourself Page with tipcs for practicing civity, seeding civity, and resources for doing both.
ID# 10074 -- 10074 -- DIYcivity -- Civity launches a new Do-It Yourself Page with tipcs for practicing civity, seeding civity, and resources for doing both.
ID# 10076 -- 10076 -- Lyceum Labs -- A new organization founded by Daniel Stid, Founding Director of the Hewlett Foundation's Democracy Program trying to promote more responsible political leadership and more effective political parties.
ID# 10082 -- 10082 -- Authoritarianism: How you Know it When You See It -- The purpose of this document is to help US organizers, bridge-builders, and others understand the key attributes of authoritarian systems, how authoritarians wield power, and ways to counter it.
ID# 10082 -- 10082 -- Authoritarianism: How you Know it When You See It -- The purpose of this document is to help US organizers, bridge-builders, and others understand the key attributes of authoritarian systems, how authoritarians wield power, and ways to counter it.
ID# 10083 -- 10083 -- America needs a cross-national approach to counter authoritarianism -- An article describing how the authoritarianism can be countered by promoting free, fair and trusted elections, combating mis- and dis-information, and cultivating informed and engaged voters.
ID# 10083 -- 10083 -- America needs a cross-national approach to counter authoritarianism -- An article describing how the authoritarianism can be countered by promoting free, fair and trusted elections, combating mis- and dis-information, and cultivating informed and engaged voters.
ID# 10083 -- 10083 -- America needs a cross-national approach to counter authoritarianism -- An article describing how the authoritarianism can be countered by promoting free, fair and trusted elections, combating mis- and dis-information, and cultivating informed and engaged voters.
ID# 10084 -- 10084 -- Defending and Strengthening Diverse Democracies -- Report of an extensive literature review and interviews highlighting drivers of democratic regression and opportunities to strengthen democracy in Brazil, India, South Africa and the U.S.
ID# 10084 -- 10084 -- Defending and Strengthening Diverse Democracies -- Report of an extensive literature review and interviews highlighting drivers of democratic regression and opportunities to strengthen democracy in Brazil, India, South Africa and the U.S.
ID# 10085 -- 10085 -- First Principles: The Need for Greater Consensus on the Fundamentals of Polarisation -- A discussion of the definition of polarization, why it is so important, and how it might be addressed, including, perhaps by creating an academic "field" of polarization.
ID# 10085 -- 10085 -- First Principles: The Need for Greater Consensus on the Fundamentals of Polarisation -- A discussion of the definition of polarization, why it is so important, and how it might be addressed, including, perhaps by creating an academic "field" of polarization.
ID# 10086 -- 10086 -- The Case for Expanding the Landscape of Democracy Work -- A long-term, holistic vision of how democracy could evolve in the US and the role that Organizers could play in that work.
ID# 10086 -- 10086 -- The Case for Expanding the Landscape of Democracy Work -- A long-term, holistic vision of how democracy could evolve in the US and the role that Organizers could play in that work.
ID# 10087 -- 10087 -- The Antidote to Authoritarianism -- Ordinary people, organized effectively, have the power to drive social change upwards to create the conditions for justice, equity, and freedom. 27 leaders reflect on how to do this now.
ID# 10087 -- 10087 -- The Antidote to Authoritarianism -- Ordinary people, organized effectively, have the power to drive social change upwards to create the conditions for justice, equity, and freedom. 27 leaders reflect on how to do this now.
ID# 10087 -- 10087 -- The Antidote to Authoritarianism -- Ordinary people, organized effectively, have the power to drive social change upwards to create the conditions for justice, equity, and freedom. 27 leaders reflect on how to do this now.
ID# 10087 -- 10087 -- The Antidote to Authoritarianism -- Ordinary people, organized effectively, have the power to drive social change upwards to create the conditions for justice, equity, and freedom. 27 leaders reflect on how to do this now.
ID# 10089 -- 10089 -- New Pluralists -- The new pluralists are committed to healing our divisions by helping Americans recognize our shared humanity, embrace our differences, and solve challenges together.
ID# 10089 -- 10089 -- New Pluralists -- The new pluralists are committed to healing our divisions by helping Americans recognize our shared humanity, embrace our differences, and solve challenges together.
ID# 10092 -- 10092 -- Conflict Analysis: A Tutorial -- An excellent primer on how to do a comprehensive conflict analysis for people working in complex conflict situation, journalists reporting on complex conflicts, or anyone wanting to understand a conflict better.
ID# 10092 -- 10092 -- Conflict Analysis: A Tutorial -- An excellent primer on how to do a comprehensive conflict analysis for people working in complex conflict situation, journalists reporting on complex conflicts, or anyone wanting to understand a conflict better.
ID# 10095 -- 10095 -- A New Agenda for Peace -- S.G.'s Guterres' New Agenda for Peace outlines his vision for multilateral efforts for peace and security, based on international law, for a world in transition.
ID# 10095 -- 10095 -- A New Agenda for Peace -- S.G.'s Guterres' New Agenda for Peace outlines his vision for multilateral efforts for peace and security, based on international law, for a world in transition.
ID# 10095 -- 10095 -- A New Agenda for Peace -- S.G.'s Guterres' New Agenda for Peace outlines his vision for multilateral efforts for peace and security, based on international law, for a world in transition.
ID# 10096 -- 10096 -- Citizen Solutions: America's Hidden Opportunity Revealed. -- Starts With Us' inititiave to empower Americans to overcome our misperceptions and co-create solutions to shared challenges. This article shows how badly we misjudge "the other" on many dimensions.
ID# 10096 -- 10096 -- Citizen Solutions: America's Hidden Opportunity Revealed. -- Starts With Us' inititiave to empower Americans to overcome our misperceptions and co-create solutions to shared challenges. This article shows how badly we misjudge "the other" on many dimensions.
ID# 10101 -- 10101 -- The Violence, Inequality and Power Lab (VIP Lab) at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego -- The VIP Lab seeks to understand how power inequalities cause violence. They provide actionable ideas to be implemented at the systems level to confront harmful power inequalities and reduce violence.
ID# 10101 -- 10101 -- The Violence, Inequality and Power Lab (VIP Lab) at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego -- The VIP Lab seeks to understand how power inequalities cause violence. They provide actionable ideas to be implemented at the systems level to confront harmful power inequalities and reduce violence.
ID# 10102 -- 10102 -- One Humanity Institute -- One Humanity Institute is a social incubator, a global nexus where one can experience both the micro and macro potential of a united humanity.
ID# 10102 -- 10102 -- One Humanity Institute -- One Humanity Institute is a social incubator, a global nexus where one can experience both the micro and macro potential of a united humanity.
ID# 10105 -- 10105 -- Catholic Peacebuilding in Times of Crisis -- Vol. 12:2 of the Journal of Moral Theology featuring original articles coming out of the the Catholoic Peacebuilding Network's summer 2022 conference .
ID# 10105 -- 10105 -- Catholic Peacebuilding in Times of Crisis -- Vol. 12:2 of the Journal of Moral Theology featuring original articles coming out of the the Catholoic Peacebuilding Network's summer 2022 conference .
ID# 10108 -- 10108 -- Indigenous voices on reconciliation -- Do you ever feel that you’d like to advance the work of reconciliation, but you’re confused or unsure where to begin? Videos from indigenous voices in Canada compiled by the Canadian Friends Service Committee can help.
ID# 10108 -- 10108 -- Indigenous voices on reconciliation -- Do you ever feel that you’d like to advance the work of reconciliation, but you’re confused or unsure where to begin? Videos from indigenous voices in Canada compiled by the Canadian Friends Service Committee can help.
ID# 10108 -- 10108 -- Indigenous voices on reconciliation -- Do you ever feel that you’d like to advance the work of reconciliation, but you’re confused or unsure where to begin? Videos from indigenous voices in Canada compiled by the Canadian Friends Service Committee can help.
ID# 10109 -- 10109 -- Listening is powerful. This one skill can transform relationships, and even lead to social change -- A story with many powerful examples of how and why listening is so important to conflict resolution and reconciliation.
ID# 10116 -- 10116 -- The Building Civic Bridges Act -- A Congressional Act introduced by a bipartisan coalition to establish a pilot program within AmeriCorps, focused on building relationships across lines of difference, led by a new "Office of Civic Bridgebuilding."
ID# 10116 -- 10116 -- The Building Civic Bridges Act -- A Congressional Act introduced by a bipartisan coalition to establish a pilot program within AmeriCorps, focused on building relationships across lines of difference, led by a new "Office of Civic Bridgebuilding."
ID# 10116 -- 10116 -- The Building Civic Bridges Act -- A Congressional Act introduced by a bipartisan coalition to establish a pilot program within AmeriCorps, focused on building relationships across lines of difference, led by a new "Office of Civic Bridgebuilding."
ID# 10122 -- 10122 -- Democratic Engagement after Two Summits for Democracy -- A report summarizing lessons from the Year of Action and Second Summit, and presenting opportunities for shaping an inclusive and effective Third Summit for Democracy.
ID# 10122 -- 10122 -- Democratic Engagement after Two Summits for Democracy -- A report summarizing lessons from the Year of Action and Second Summit, and presenting opportunities for shaping an inclusive and effective Third Summit for Democracy.
ID# 10125 -- 10125 -- Political Forgiveness 101 -- With all the division and “us versus them” mentality, to heal these divisions and transform conflict we need to change our mindsets. This is where political forgiveness can come into play.
ID# 10125 -- 10125 -- Political Forgiveness 101 -- With all the division and “us versus them” mentality, to heal these divisions and transform conflict we need to change our mindsets. This is where political forgiveness can come into play.
ID# 10128 -- 10128 -- Summer 2023: CBI in Action -- Short summaries of the many projects the Consensus Building Institute is currently working on, showing that consensus can be built in very difficult situations.
ID# 10128 -- 10128 -- Summer 2023: CBI in Action -- Short summaries of the many projects the Consensus Building Institute is currently working on, showing that consensus can be built in very difficult situations.
ID# 10128 -- 10128 -- Summer 2023: CBI in Action -- Short summaries of the many projects the Consensus Building Institute is currently working on, showing that consensus can be built in very difficult situations.
ID# 10129 -- 10129 -- Americans think the “other side” is the problem when it’s really the solution -- We have the power – and with that power, the responsibility – to open our eyes and look across the aisle and see not an enemy but a potential partner for change.
ID# 10129 -- 10129 -- Americans think the “other side” is the problem when it’s really the solution -- We have the power – and with that power, the responsibility – to open our eyes and look across the aisle and see not an enemy but a potential partner for change.
ID# 10131 -- 10131 -- Are Our Political Rivals As Bad As We Think They Are? DTH Episode 161 with Daniel F. Stone -- A conversation talking about how to understand the mistakes we make about those on the other side of the political spectrum — and how they drive the affective polarization that is tearing us apart.
ID# 10131 -- 10131 -- Are Our Political Rivals As Bad As We Think They Are? DTH Episode 161 with Daniel F. Stone -- A conversation talking about how to understand the mistakes we make about those on the other side of the political spectrum — and how they drive the affective polarization that is tearing us apart.
ID# 10132 -- 10132 -- Berkeley political scientists chart a promising course to ease toxic polarization -- New research co-authored at UC Berkeley details the psychological processes that demagogues exploit to erode support for democracy — and show a way to bridge the dangerous divide.
ID# 10132 -- 10132 -- Berkeley political scientists chart a promising course to ease toxic polarization -- New research co-authored at UC Berkeley details the psychological processes that demagogues exploit to erode support for democracy — and show a way to bridge the dangerous divide.
ID# 10134 -- 10134 -- Network for Responsible Public Policy -- NFRPP provides stories that educate, inform, foster civic engagement, and generate a sense of shared purpose to help keep US democracy dynamic and viable.
ID# 10134 -- 10134 -- Network for Responsible Public Policy -- NFRPP provides stories that educate, inform, foster civic engagement, and generate a sense of shared purpose to help keep US democracy dynamic and viable.
ID# 10135 -- 10135 -- Why Your Presence Alone Is Surprisingly Powerful -- Just sitting with someone can reduce pain and anxiety; making eye contact reduces perceived social distance and improves cooperation.
ID# 10135 -- 10135 -- Why Your Presence Alone Is Surprisingly Powerful -- Just sitting with someone can reduce pain and anxiety; making eye contact reduces perceived social distance and improves cooperation.
ID# 10136 -- 10136 -- Exploring the Collaboration Cycle -- Community change is not linear, but more of a cyclical process. This mirrors phases of development found in ecology.
ID# 10136 -- 10136 -- Exploring the Collaboration Cycle -- Community change is not linear, but more of a cyclical process. This mirrors phases of development found in ecology.
ID# 10136 -- 10136 -- Exploring the Collaboration Cycle -- Community change is not linear, but more of a cyclical process. This mirrors phases of development found in ecology.
ID# 10137 -- 10137 -- Tamarack Institute -- The Tamarack Institute develops and supports collaborative strategies that engage citizens and institutions to solve major community issues across Canada and beyond.
ID# 10137 -- 10137 -- Tamarack Institute -- The Tamarack Institute develops and supports collaborative strategies that engage citizens and institutions to solve major community issues across Canada and beyond.
ID# 10139 -- 10139 -- Leadership for Navigating Uncertainty -- Thoughts about responsive, collaborative, and disruptive-emergent leadership, and how we might use this understanding of these leadership forms to ensure we lean into deep, durable and transformative change.
ID# 10141 -- 10141 -- The Collaboration Spectrum Tool -- This tool will help groups decide where they are on the spectrum of collaboration include current level and idea level.
ID# 10142 -- 10142 -- Constellation Model of Governance -- A complexity-inspired framework designed to ‘hold’ collaborations within dynamic systems by balancing chaos and order, energy and structure.
ID# 10142 -- 10142 -- Constellation Model of Governance -- A complexity-inspired framework designed to ‘hold’ collaborations within dynamic systems by balancing chaos and order, energy and structure.
ID# 10145 -- 10145 -- Essentials of Social Innovation - Articles -- from the Stanford Social Innovation Review, a starter kit for "leaders of change" who are beginning to explore social innovation .
ID# 10145 -- 10145 -- Essentials of Social Innovation - Articles -- from the Stanford Social Innovation Review, a starter kit for "leaders of change" who are beginning to explore social innovation .
ID# 10146 -- 10146 -- Deep Healing and Emotional Expression: Political Forgiveness as a Unique Peacebuilding Process -- For a time when the focus is on good-vs-evil politics, social justice, and holding people accountable for past misdeeds, a look at political forgiveness and its role in building a lasting peace.
ID# 10146 -- 10146 -- Deep Healing and Emotional Expression: Political Forgiveness as a Unique Peacebuilding Process -- For a time when the focus is on good-vs-evil politics, social justice, and holding people accountable for past misdeeds, a look at political forgiveness and its role in building a lasting peace.
ID# 10147 -- 10147 -- Polarization, Democracy, and Political Violence in the United States: What the Research Says -- From Rachel Kleinfeld and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an extensive, must-read analysis of the origins of the United States' ongoing political difficulties.
ID# 10147 -- 10147 -- Polarization, Democracy, and Political Violence in the United States: What the Research Says -- From Rachel Kleinfeld and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an extensive, must-read analysis of the origins of the United States' ongoing political difficulties.
ID# 10147 -- 10147 -- Polarization, Democracy, and Political Violence in the United States: What the Research Says -- From Rachel Kleinfeld and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an extensive, must-read analysis of the origins of the United States' ongoing political difficulties.
ID# 10148 -- 10148 -- Community Mediation--Year 2 -- Community mediation, says Chip Hauss, is the "best-kept secret" in the peacebuilding field.
ID# 10148 -- 10148 -- Community Mediation--Year 2 -- Community mediation, says Chip Hauss, is the "best-kept secret" in the peacebuilding field.
ID# 10150 -- 10150 -- A Movement is Afoot for a New Way in American Politics -- The first edition of a new substack that looks at a new way of conducting politics in America, showing people in many different roles can contribute.
ID# 10156 -- 10156 -- Are Free Speech and Inclusion at Odds on College Campuses? -- A comprehensive survey of 2,618 U.S. college students reveals stark divisions in their views on freedom of expression, cancel culture, and the weighing of social justice values against free speech.
ID# 10156 -- 10156 -- Are Free Speech and Inclusion at Odds on College Campuses? -- A comprehensive survey of 2,618 U.S. college students reveals stark divisions in their views on freedom of expression, cancel culture, and the weighing of social justice values against free speech.
ID# 10159 -- 10159 -- The Carter Center and Team Democracy Unite to Advance Candidate Principles for Trusted Elections -- This strategic alliance aims to strengthen the core values of democracy and electoral integrity as defined in the Candidate Principles for Trusted Elections, a national, cross-partisan effort.
ID# 10159 -- 10159 -- The Carter Center and Team Democracy Unite to Advance Candidate Principles for Trusted Elections -- This strategic alliance aims to strengthen the core values of democracy and electoral integrity as defined in the Candidate Principles for Trusted Elections, a national, cross-partisan effort.
ID# 10161 -- 10161 -- The Relationships Project -- Connecting the dots between organizations focused on relationship-building, the Relationship Project is helping to develop the infrastructure to support a thriving field of relationship-centered practice.
ID# 10161 -- 10161 -- The Relationships Project -- Connecting the dots between organizations focused on relationship-building, the Relationship Project is helping to develop the infrastructure to support a thriving field of relationship-centered practice.
ID# 10161 -- 10161 -- The Relationships Project -- Connecting the dots between organizations focused on relationship-building, the Relationship Project is helping to develop the infrastructure to support a thriving field of relationship-centered practice.
ID# 10162 -- 10162 -- Getting to Third Space with Lamar and Tom -- This podcast features an exploration of how to talk with one another about significant, even controversial, issues with grace and humor.
ID# 10162 -- 10162 -- Getting to Third Space with Lamar and Tom -- This podcast features an exploration of how to talk with one another about significant, even controversial, issues with grace and humor.
ID# 10163 -- 10163 -- What is Peacebuilding -- The Alliance for Peacebuilding's new "story map" that explains what peacebuilding is and how it is done in words everyone can understand.
ID# 10164 -- 10164 -- India Eyes a New Identity -- The government’s preoccupation with “Bharat” caps a nativist surge under Modi. Can a country that is bogged down in battling its past ever truly hope to win a better future?
ID# 10164 -- 10164 -- India Eyes a New Identity -- The government’s preoccupation with “Bharat” caps a nativist surge under Modi. Can a country that is bogged down in battling its past ever truly hope to win a better future?
ID# 10165 -- 10165 -- The International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) -- The International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) is an independent global organization dedicated to providing actionable scientific knowledge on threats to our information landscape.
ID# 10165 -- 10165 -- The International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) -- The International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) is an independent global organization dedicated to providing actionable scientific knowledge on threats to our information landscape.
ID# 10167 -- 10167 -- Countermeasures for Mitigating Digital Misinformation: A Systematic Review -- This Synthesis Report reviews the findings from 588 peer-reviewed publications, from around the world and many disciplines, to highlight the most effective countermeasures for disinformation.
ID# 10167 -- 10167 -- Countermeasures for Mitigating Digital Misinformation: A Systematic Review -- This Synthesis Report reviews the findings from 588 peer-reviewed publications, from around the world and many disciplines, to highlight the most effective countermeasures for disinformation.
ID# 10168 -- 10168 -- Strategies for Improving the Global Information Environment: Results from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis -- This IPIE Summary for Policymakers presents the main findings of two IPIE Synthesis Reports that examine countermeasures to misinformation on social media platforms.
ID# 10168 -- 10168 -- Strategies for Improving the Global Information Environment: Results from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis -- This IPIE Summary for Policymakers presents the main findings of two IPIE Synthesis Reports that examine countermeasures to misinformation on social media platforms.
ID# 10168 -- 10168 -- Strategies for Improving the Global Information Environment: Results from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis -- This IPIE Summary for Policymakers presents the main findings of two IPIE Synthesis Reports that examine countermeasures to misinformation on social media platforms.
ID# 10170 -- 10170 -- Dignity Press -- Dignity Press has published more than 30 books that explore the dynamics of human dignity and humiliation from diverse standpoints and global perspectives.
ID# 10170 -- 10170 -- Dignity Press -- Dignity Press has published more than 30 books that explore the dynamics of human dignity and humiliation from diverse standpoints and global perspectives.
ID# 10171 -- 10171 -- Why A Liberal Should Want To Share A Table With A Conservative (Like Me) -- A look at the significant lost opportunities when the left gives up on the right.
ID# 10171 -- 10171 -- Why A Liberal Should Want To Share A Table With A Conservative (Like Me) -- A look at the significant lost opportunities when the left gives up on the right.
ID# 10172 -- 10172 -- Ravenscroft students leverage EP training in the wake of a local shooting -- A story from Essential Partners about how their trainings helped high school students deal with a local shooting.
ID# 10173 -- 10173 -- A depolarization-aimed speech I'd like to see President Biden give -- An imagined, fictional speech that would (it seems to us) do wonders to disarm the polarization wars--if it would be heard and taken to heart. One can only wish!
ID# 10174 -- 10174 -- U.S. Peacebuilding Digest -- A compilation of recent statements, activities, analyses, on more on 16 different topics related to U.S. peacebuilding.
ID# 10174 -- 10174 -- U.S. Peacebuilding Digest -- A compilation of recent statements, activities, analyses, on more on 16 different topics related to U.S. peacebuilding.
ID# 10175 -- 10175 -- Polarization Conversation Guide -- A simple, easy-to-use guide that will allow anyone to lead a constructive conversation about political polarization from LivingRoom Conversations.
ID# 10175 -- 10175 -- Polarization Conversation Guide -- A simple, easy-to-use guide that will allow anyone to lead a constructive conversation about political polarization from LivingRoom Conversations.
ID# 10176 -- 10176 -- LivingRoom Conversations Conversation Topics -- A listing of topics by category, each with a free, easy-to-use conversation guide.
ID# 10176 -- 10176 -- LivingRoom Conversations Conversation Topics -- A listing of topics by category, each with a free, easy-to-use conversation guide.
ID# 10176 -- 10176 -- LivingRoom Conversations Conversation Topics -- A listing of topics by category, each with a free, easy-to-use conversation guide.
ID# 10177 -- 10177 -- Bridge Entertainment Labs -- Accelerating the creation of content that fosters social cohesion and pluralistic norms to transform the way Americans see and engage with each other across divides.
ID# 10177 -- 10177 -- Bridge Entertainment Labs -- Accelerating the creation of content that fosters social cohesion and pluralistic norms to transform the way Americans see and engage with each other across divides.
ID# 10178 -- 10178 -- Series Introduction: The Practice of Leadership in the Midst of Controversy and Conflict: -- An explanation of how leaders are currently dealing with deep-rooted, highly polarized intractable conflicts--not well, of course. Can anything change that?
ID# 10179 -- 10179 -- Future Summit 2023: Shaping Leaders for a Unified Governance -- In an era marked by political polarization and complex challenges, the annual summit plays a pivotal role in collectively shaping the trajectory of policymaking for young legislators.
ID# 10179 -- 10179 -- Future Summit 2023: Shaping Leaders for a Unified Governance -- In an era marked by political polarization and complex challenges, the annual summit plays a pivotal role in collectively shaping the trajectory of policymaking for young legislators.
ID# 10180 -- 10180 -- Revisiting the pillars of peacebuilding: understanding the Lederach gaps in conflict transformation -- Despite advancements in conflict transformation and peacebuilding, significant gaps remain. Addressing these is imperative for realizing a positive, sustainable, and just peace that goes beyond just a simple ceasefire and the absence of violence.
ID# 10180 -- 10180 -- Revisiting the pillars of peacebuilding: understanding the Lederach gaps in conflict transformation -- Despite advancements in conflict transformation and peacebuilding, significant gaps remain. Addressing these is imperative for realizing a positive, sustainable, and just peace that goes beyond just a simple ceasefire and the absence of violence.
ID# 10181 -- 10181 -- Military coups in Africa: A disturbing trend -- Future hopes lie in civilian governments effectively governing upon return to power and the rise of promising civil movements in Africa. The West can still play a role, but needs to respect Africa's self-determination.
ID# 10182 -- 10182 -- Why those concerned about worst-case Trump scenarios should see depolarization as important -- Helping Americans get along better doesn’t mean us all liking each other. It means us disagreeing better; disagreeing in healthier, less toxic, less hateful ways so we can all move forward to what we want.
ID# 10182 -- 10182 -- Why those concerned about worst-case Trump scenarios should see depolarization as important -- Helping Americans get along better doesn’t mean us all liking each other. It means us disagreeing better; disagreeing in healthier, less toxic, less hateful ways so we can all move forward to what we want.
ID# 10183 -- 10183 -- Deep Healing and Emotional Expression: Political Forgiveness as a Unique Peacebuilding Process -- A political forgiveness process is uniquely different than other peacebuilding measures — it provides a healing mechanism to deal with the emotional undertow that keeps a conflict alive.
ID# 10184 -- 10184 -- Certainty Is a Psychological Trap and It's Time to Escape -- The willingness to actually listen to others and to display your ignorance is a bold move that now has a name -- intellectual humility. It’s not only a developable skill, but it could just end the culture wars.
ID# 10184 -- 10184 -- Certainty Is a Psychological Trap and It's Time to Escape -- The willingness to actually listen to others and to display your ignorance is a bold move that now has a name -- intellectual humility. It’s not only a developable skill, but it could just end the culture wars.
ID# 10185 -- 10185 -- Why a Lack of Trust Is So Damaging: Three surprising ways to build greater trust. -- We can build greater trust in our lives by focusing on relationships, consistency, and expertise.
ID# 10185 -- 10185 -- Why a Lack of Trust Is So Damaging: Three surprising ways to build greater trust. -- We can build greater trust in our lives by focusing on relationships, consistency, and expertise.
ID# 10186 -- 10186 -- Embracing civil disagreement -- The Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership is a space for Stanford students to discuss political differences with their peers across the country.
ID# 10187 -- 10187 -- Candidate Principles for Trusted Elections -- These principles put forth by Team Democracy and the Carter Center include an honest process, civil campaign, secure voting, responsible oversight, and trusted outcomes.
ID# 10187 -- 10187 -- Candidate Principles for Trusted Elections -- These principles put forth by Team Democracy and the Carter Center include an honest process, civil campaign, secure voting, responsible oversight, and trusted outcomes.
ID# 10188 -- 10188 -- The Horizon's Project Sensemaking Podcasts -- Sensemaking, or what we'd call framing, is essential for understanding what's happening and how to respond to world events. Here are six short videos with leading peacebuilders about their sensemaking practices.
ID# 10188 -- 10188 -- The Horizon's Project Sensemaking Podcasts -- Sensemaking, or what we'd call framing, is essential for understanding what's happening and how to respond to world events. Here are six short videos with leading peacebuilders about their sensemaking practices.
ID# 10188 -- 10188 -- The Horizon's Project Sensemaking Podcasts -- Sensemaking, or what we'd call framing, is essential for understanding what's happening and how to respond to world events. Here are six short videos with leading peacebuilders about their sensemaking practices.
ID# 10189 -- 10189 -- Belonging Design Principles: A resource guide for building belonging -- From the Othering and Belonging Institute, a set of ideas about how society can organize itself so that no one is "othered," and we all collaborate to build a society in which everyone wants to live.
ID# 10189 -- 10189 -- Belonging Design Principles: A resource guide for building belonging -- From the Othering and Belonging Institute, a set of ideas about how society can organize itself so that no one is "othered," and we all collaborate to build a society in which everyone wants to live.
ID# 10190 -- 10190 -- Leadership Now Project -- This is a membership organization of business and thought leaders taking action to protect and renew American democracy by focusing on and promoting business's role in pro-democracy efforts.
ID# 10191 -- 10191 -- Peace: We Build It! Building Bridges Amid Division: Understanding America's Conflict Dynamics -- In this podcast, AfP Executive Director Liz Hume discusses identity-based grievances, polarization, and social cohesion in the U.S with three experts across the political spectrum.
ID# 10191 -- 10191 -- Peace: We Build It! Building Bridges Amid Division: Understanding America's Conflict Dynamics -- In this podcast, AfP Executive Director Liz Hume discusses identity-based grievances, polarization, and social cohesion in the U.S with three experts across the political spectrum.
ID# 10192 -- 10192 -- Eileen Boris's Political Forgiveness Monthly for October 2023 -- Eileen's main article is entitled "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive," a direct quote from the Dalai Lama. Writing after the Israel/Gaza conflict broke out, Eileen goes on to say, "if we want to survive as humanity, violence is not the answer. Instead, we need to make contact with our own hears and shift our mindsets to one of political forgiveness. On then can we meet these changes and begin to heal together.
ID# 10192 -- 10192 -- Eileen Boris's Political Forgiveness Monthly for October 2023 -- Eileen's main article is entitled "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive," a direct quote from the Dalai Lama. Writing after the Israel/Gaza conflict broke out, Eileen goes on to say, "if we want to survive as humanity, violence is not the answer. Instead, we need to make contact with our own hears and shift our mindsets to one of political forgiveness. On then can we meet these changes and begin to heal together.
ID# 10193 -- 10193 -- Scaling the Wall of Grief in Israel and Palestine -- This article by Lisa Schirch recounts how history and stories about that history shape current day thoughts and events. Amid all the despair and horror, we can carve out spaces for hope, for grieving, for care for those traumatized, for those lost. There is a better way. "The violence will end when the occupation ends and there is justice, democracy, and a land for all people and when the world can work against antisemitism without working against Palestinian human rights."
ID# 10193 -- 10193 -- Scaling the Wall of Grief in Israel and Palestine -- This article by Lisa Schirch recounts how history and stories about that history shape current day thoughts and events. Amid all the despair and horror, we can carve out spaces for hope, for grieving, for care for those traumatized, for those lost. There is a better way. "The violence will end when the occupation ends and there is justice, democracy, and a land for all people and when the world can work against antisemitism without working against Palestinian human rights."
ID# 10194 -- 10194 -- Canadian Friends Service Committee E-Newsletter In response to the ongoing intensity of violence in Palestine/Israel. -- “[F]reedom from the scourge of war will only be brought about through the faithfulness of individuals to their inmost convictions" As such, CFSC calls for an immediate ceasefire and new leaders who are open to paths of nonviolence. It calls for the immediate release of all the hostages and end to the violence of the Israeli military. CFSC calls on each individual to search for and recognize our shared humanity.
ID# 10194 -- 10194 -- Canadian Friends Service Committee E-Newsletter In response to the ongoing intensity of violence in Palestine/Israel. -- “[F]reedom from the scourge of war will only be brought about through the faithfulness of individuals to their inmost convictions" As such, CFSC calls for an immediate ceasefire and new leaders who are open to paths of nonviolence. It calls for the immediate release of all the hostages and end to the violence of the Israeli military. CFSC calls on each individual to search for and recognize our shared humanity.
ID# 10195 -- 10195 -- Join or Die -- Chip Hauss revisits the critical concept of bridging social capital, and reflects both on its widespread loss and its importance to both peace and democracy worldwide.
ID# 10195 -- 10195 -- Join or Die -- Chip Hauss revisits the critical concept of bridging social capital, and reflects both on its widespread loss and its importance to both peace and democracy worldwide.
ID# 10196 -- 10196 -- Parents of the Field: Betty Reardon -- Betty Reardon was one of the founding parents of the conflict resolution field. We were saddened to learn of her passing this week, and wanted to share this video that is making the rounds of our email feeds. Hats off to Betty!
ID# 10196 -- 10196 -- Parents of the Field: Betty Reardon -- Betty Reardon was one of the founding parents of the conflict resolution field. We were saddened to learn of her passing this week, and wanted to share this video that is making the rounds of our email feeds. Hats off to Betty!
ID# 10197 -- 10197 -- Lies, Misinformation Play Key Role in Israel-Hamas Fight -- The Israel/Hamas war isn't just about tactics. It's also about perception: telling a story about who is the victim and who is the aggressor. Lies, mistruths, and disinformation will be a key part of the fight.
ID# 10198 -- 10198 -- Polarization and political violence: Rachel Kleinfeld. -- Ppeople talking across differences isn’t enough to end polarization, even if it can create goodwill.:Tthere needs to be institutional change and politicians who come together to defend democratic norms.
ID# 10198 -- 10198 -- Polarization and political violence: Rachel Kleinfeld. -- Ppeople talking across differences isn’t enough to end polarization, even if it can create goodwill.:Tthere needs to be institutional change and politicians who come together to defend democratic norms.
ID# 10198 -- 10198 -- Polarization and political violence: Rachel Kleinfeld. -- Ppeople talking across differences isn’t enough to end polarization, even if it can create goodwill.:Tthere needs to be institutional change and politicians who come together to defend democratic norms.
ID# 10199 -- 10199 -- How business can help address the American schism without touching political “third rails” -- Historically, the U.S. has navigated political divisions by letting facts and data lead the conversation and working together constructively to engage multiple perspectives and work toward consensus and compromise.. Businesses do that all the time.
ID# 10199 -- 10199 -- How business can help address the American schism without touching political “third rails” -- Historically, the U.S. has navigated political divisions by letting facts and data lead the conversation and working together constructively to engage multiple perspectives and work toward consensus and compromise.. Businesses do that all the time.
ID# 10199 -- 10199 -- How business can help address the American schism without touching political “third rails” -- Historically, the U.S. has navigated political divisions by letting facts and data lead the conversation and working together constructively to engage multiple perspectives and work toward consensus and compromise.. Businesses do that all the time.
ID# 10200 -- 10200 -- Transitioning to tripartisanship -- Between 40% and 44% of American voters, according to Gallup, do not identify with either major party. They need to be represented in Washington too.
ID# 10200 -- 10200 -- Transitioning to tripartisanship -- Between 40% and 44% of American voters, according to Gallup, do not identify with either major party. They need to be represented in Washington too.
ID# 10201 -- 10201 -- A Quilt Meditation on Democracy, Social Connection, & Civity -- Democracy is like quilting. We are all different pieces of different fabrics of different shapes and sizes – and we piece ourselves together to make something different and bigger. We each make a contribution.
ID# 10201 -- 10201 -- A Quilt Meditation on Democracy, Social Connection, & Civity -- Democracy is like quilting. We are all different pieces of different fabrics of different shapes and sizes – and we piece ourselves together to make something different and bigger. We each make a contribution.
ID# 10201 -- 10201 -- A Quilt Meditation on Democracy, Social Connection, & Civity -- Democracy is like quilting. We are all different pieces of different fabrics of different shapes and sizes – and we piece ourselves together to make something different and bigger. We each make a contribution.
ID# 10202 -- 10202 -- ConnectEffect -- This is a live, 60 minute entertainment experience that will profoundly shift the way you see "the other side." It is an "in-person hard reset of humanity."
ID# 10202 -- 10202 -- ConnectEffect -- This is a live, 60 minute entertainment experience that will profoundly shift the way you see "the other side." It is an "in-person hard reset of humanity."
ID# 10203 -- 10203 -- Nagorno-Karabakh at a Crossroad -- This issue of the Uppsala University Newsletter focuses on the crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as reviewing trends in organized violence in September 2023.
ID# 10204 -- 10204 -- Rand Policy Currents: Addressing Gun Violence in America -- There is limited evidence to show which laws prevent mass shootings specifically, bans on high-capacity magazines appear to reduce the number of deaths in mass shootings.
ID# 10205 -- 10205 -- Alliance for Peacebuilding's Statement On The Israel-Hamas Violent Conflict -- Released on October 26, the Alliance calls for an immediate ceasefire with the release of all hostages, addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and working for a two-state solution.
ID# 10205 -- 10205 -- Alliance for Peacebuilding's Statement On The Israel-Hamas Violent Conflict -- Released on October 26, the Alliance calls for an immediate ceasefire with the release of all hostages, addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and working for a two-state solution.
ID# 10206 -- 10206 -- Women Peace and Security Index -- This index put together by Georgetown University scores and ranks 177 countries in terms of women’s inclusion, justice, and security.
ID# 10206 -- 10206 -- Women Peace and Security Index -- This index put together by Georgetown University scores and ranks 177 countries in terms of women’s inclusion, justice, and security.
ID# 10207 -- 10207 -- Polarized Misperceptions of The Magnitude of Police Violence - BCB #72 -- It’s not just differences in values that can drive conflict, but differences in knowledge. Liberals' estimates of the magnitude of the problem are way off.
ID# 10207 -- 10207 -- Polarized Misperceptions of The Magnitude of Police Violence - BCB #72 -- It’s not just differences in values that can drive conflict, but differences in knowledge. Liberals' estimates of the magnitude of the problem are way off.
ID# 10208 -- 10208 -- The Inevitable, Ongoing Failure of Israel's Gaza Strategy -- Israel has long had a "mowing the grass" strategy to controlling Gaza. That failed spectacularly on October 7. So what comes next?
ID# 10209 -- 10209 -- Faith in Democracy: Mobilizing Religious Communities for Democratic Change -- A robust democracy is essential to safeguard the rights and fostering the civic participation of the religious cannot be overstated. And likewise, religious communities can help strengthen democracy.
ID# 10209 -- 10209 -- Faith in Democracy: Mobilizing Religious Communities for Democratic Change -- A robust democracy is essential to safeguard the rights and fostering the civic participation of the religious cannot be overstated. And likewise, religious communities can help strengthen democracy.
ID# 10210 -- 10210 -- Religion and Peace building: Lessons from Africa -- The Catholic Church has played a prominent role in promoting human rights, sustainable development, good governance, and peace Africa. Cardinal John Onaiyekan reflects on this work.
ID# 10210 -- 10210 -- Religion and Peace building: Lessons from Africa -- The Catholic Church has played a prominent role in promoting human rights, sustainable development, good governance, and peace Africa. Cardinal John Onaiyekan reflects on this work.
ID# 10211 -- 10211 -- The Global State of Democracy Initiative -- This Initiative provides evidence-based, balanced analysis and data on the state and quality of democracy for 173 countries, producing a variety of indices and an annual report.
ID# 10211 -- 10211 -- The Global State of Democracy Initiative -- This Initiative provides evidence-based, balanced analysis and data on the state and quality of democracy for 173 countries, producing a variety of indices and an annual report.
ID# 10213 -- 10213 -- Political Forgiveness and the Healing of Nations -- This was Eileen Borris's keynoe address to the Ethiopia Symposium on Higher Eduation for Post Conflict Transformation
ID# 10214 -- 10214 -- Braver Angel's "E-Courses" -- These professional level 40-minute courses have been crafted by experts in communications and depolarization. They provide an effective and “safe” way to interact with people in difficult situations.
ID# 10214 -- 10214 -- Braver Angel's "E-Courses" -- These professional level 40-minute courses have been crafted by experts in communications and depolarization. They provide an effective and “safe” way to interact with people in difficult situations.
ID# 10216 -- 10216 -- America's Future -- America’s Future empowers young people to be active, civil, and curious citizens who collaborate to drive change that leads to fulfillment, dignity, and happiness for all.
ID# 10218 -- 10218 -- New Way Politics -- Joel Searby's Substack focusing on movements, leadership, and forging a new, more constructive, way of engaging in politics.
ID# 10219 -- 10219 -- The Trust Network -- A network of peacebuilding organizations working to build national cohesion and peacebuilding infrastructure in the U.S, including and early warning/early response system to prevent violence.
ID# 10219 -- 10219 -- The Trust Network -- A network of peacebuilding organizations working to build national cohesion and peacebuilding infrastructure in the U.S, including and early warning/early response system to prevent violence.
ID# 10219 -- 10219 -- The Trust Network -- A network of peacebuilding organizations working to build national cohesion and peacebuilding infrastructure in the U.S, including and early warning/early response system to prevent violence.
ID# 10219 -- 10219 -- The Trust Network -- A network of peacebuilding organizations working to build national cohesion and peacebuilding infrastructure in the U.S, including and early warning/early response system to prevent violence.
ID# 10219 -- 10219 -- The Trust Network -- A network of peacebuilding organizations working to build national cohesion and peacebuilding infrastructure in the U.S, including and early warning/early response system to prevent violence.
ID# 10220 -- 10220 -- The Omni-Win Project -- The Omni-Win Project is a multimedia effort to raise awareness of the many opportunities that exist to improve our democracy and co-create a future where everyone wins.
ID# 10221 -- 10221 -- Common Sense 250 -- This project is dedicated to rebooting the American political system, with a focus on liberty, dignity, and common sense. Intended to heal political divisions in the US. to strive for the common good.
ID# 10222 -- 10222 -- The Common Sense Papers -- A series of political essays about the proposed creation of a new political movement for citizens to bypass the dysfunctional two-party duopoly and reboot the American political system, as well as capitalism,
ID# 10223 -- 10223 -- The Fulcrum -- The Fulcrum is a platform where insiders and outsiders to politics are informed, meet, talk, and act to repair our democracy and make it live and work in our everyday lives.
ID# 10226 -- 10226 -- Rank the Vote -- A non-profit dedicated to spreading ranked choice voting around the country, believing that it creates competition for good ideas rather than the current system that favors the most extreme candidates.
ID# 10226 -- 10226 -- Rank the Vote -- A non-profit dedicated to spreading ranked choice voting around the country, believing that it creates competition for good ideas rather than the current system that favors the most extreme candidates.
ID# 10227 -- 10227 -- Civic Lanaguage Perceptions Project -- This project seeks to understand peoples’ perceptions of the language associated with civic engagement and democracy work in order to help us understand each other better.
ID# 10228 -- 10228 -- USC Center for the Political Future -- CPF combines rigorous intellectual inquiry, teaching, and practical politics to advance civil dialogue, transcends partisan divisions, and find solutions to pressing national and global challenges.
ID# 10229 -- 10229 -- Collaborative for Compassionate Civic Engagement: the Civics Corps -- The Civic Corps is made up of community college students apply Maslow's human needs theory to host intergenerational dialogues and help community organizations meet their civic missions.
ID# 10230 -- 10230 -- Collaborative for Compassionate Civic Engagement -- A team of civic professionals and educators that serves as an advisory board to the Civic Crop. CCCE also designs and administers the Civic Service Skills Workshop.
ID# 10230 -- 10230 -- Collaborative for Compassionate Civic Engagement -- A team of civic professionals and educators that serves as an advisory board to the Civic Crop. CCCE also designs and administers the Civic Service Skills Workshop.
ID# 10231 -- 10231 -- Democracy Caravan -- A non-partisan podcast presenting stories about how Americans are finding common-sense solutions to what ails our political culture which aims to share hope and resources for constructive civic participation.
ID# 10231 -- 10231 -- Democracy Caravan -- A non-partisan podcast presenting stories about how Americans are finding common-sense solutions to what ails our political culture which aims to share hope and resources for constructive civic participation.
ID# 10232 -- 10232 -- Braver Angels -- Braver Anges seeks to diminish the growing partisan animosity which now threatens the United States. Theywork to bring Americans together to bridge this divide and strngthen our democratic republic.
ID# 10233 -- 10233 -- Civic Spirit -- Civic Spirit educates, inspires, and empowers schools across faith traditions to enhance civic belonging, knowledge, and responsibility in their student and faculty communities.
ID# 10233 -- 10233 -- Civic Spirit -- Civic Spirit educates, inspires, and empowers schools across faith traditions to enhance civic belonging, knowledge, and responsibility in their student and faculty communities.
ID# 10234 -- 10234 -- FixUS -- FixUS provides a community for reformers, scholars, and other politically homeless Americans to work with each other to better understand and address the division, distrust, and dysfunction in our democracy.
ID# 10235 -- 10235 -- Sustained Dialogue -- Sustained Dialogue works with leaders and grassroots citizens to improve community relationships by focusing on identity, interests, power, perceptions and patterns of interaction.
ID# 10240 -- 10240 -- US@250 Initiative -- This initiative provides a unifying framework for America's semiquincentennial, hosts an annual fellowship, and organizes a network of organizations and individuals who champion the spirit of a more inclusive America.
ID# 10244 -- 10244 -- Democracy as the Foundation that Grounds Us -- A short but surprising and interesting article about the intersection of philanthropy, democracy, and faith.
ID# 10244 -- 10244 -- Democracy as the Foundation that Grounds Us -- A short but surprising and interesting article about the intersection of philanthropy, democracy, and faith.
ID# 10245 -- 10245 -- 8 Signs of Polarization in Your Context -- From Essential Partners, an article explaining how polarization jumps from politics to all realms of our lives: homes, workplaces, faith communities, and schools. And what to do about it.
ID# 10246 -- 10246 -- Using Democratic Innovation to Rebuild Trust between Elected Officials and Citizens -- Exploring the use of deliberative town hall meetings. The process brings together a cross-section of the community to have an informed discussion on a topic with an elected official.
ID# 10250 -- 10250 -- Threats to American Democracy Ahead of an Unprecedented Presidential Election - Findings from the 2023 American Values Survey -- A look at the state of the country in details show widespread pessimism, fear of and acceptance of political violence and paranoia about the other side.
ID# 10250 -- 10250 -- Threats to American Democracy Ahead of an Unprecedented Presidential Election - Findings from the 2023 American Values Survey -- A look at the state of the country in details show widespread pessimism, fear of and acceptance of political violence and paranoia about the other side.
ID# 10255 -- 10255 -- Philanthropy Bridging Divides -- This project brings together philanthropic leaders from both sides of the aisle to support bipartisan causes, and connect beyond political divides.
ID# 10255 -- 10255 -- Philanthropy Bridging Divides -- This project brings together philanthropic leaders from both sides of the aisle to support bipartisan causes, and connect beyond political divides.
ID# 10257 -- 10257 -- Essay IX: Mapping the Healthy Democracy Ecosystem: Future of Citizenship -- A series of essays exploring how democracy and citizenship are both evolving and threatened, and how people are thinking about and engaging in politics and community.
ID# 10259 -- 10259 -- Affinity Diagrams: How to Cluster Your Ideas and Reveal Insights -- Not limited to peacebuilding, this idea organization strategy is powerful for garnering insights from many people, and highly complex situations and issues.
ID# 10266 -- 10266 -- Three Dirty Little Secrets To Improve Your Political Conversations -- Being conscious of harmful habits leads to more meaningful political conversations. We don't really listen or even understand our own views.
ID# 10266 -- 10266 -- Three Dirty Little Secrets To Improve Your Political Conversations -- Being conscious of harmful habits leads to more meaningful political conversations. We don't really listen or even understand our own views.
ID# 10268 -- 10268 -- National Leadership Network -- NLN is a collaboration between the 700,000+ alumni of more than 800 US Community Leadership Programs. Many operate locally, but we know – now more than ever – we could be stronger together.
ID# 10270 -- 10270 -- Faces of Civity -- Short videos in which people who have attended Civity Workshops reflect on their workshop experience, what "civity" means to them, and how they have incorporated civity in their own work.
ID# 10271 -- 10271 -- The Rondine Method -- A blog post from our friend Chip Hauss about innovative ways we can all copy this deep Italian approach to conflict resolution and apply it in our own lives.
ID# 10272 -- 10272 -- The Leadership Lab -- The Leadership Lab does "deep canvasing" work in an effort to re-engage infrequent voters to increase voting and force representatives to better reflect their constituencies' interests.
ID# 10274 -- 10274 -- If you care about movements, you have to care about leaders -- Leadership is the single most important indicator of the likelihood of success for any movement for good or for ill.
ID# 10275 -- 10275 -- Designing Resistance: Democratic Institutions and the Threat of Backsliding -- This report examines democratic backsliding, detailing strategies and actions taken affecting the core institutions of democracy offers recommendations to make democracy more resilient.
ID# 10277 -- 10277 -- Unpacking Democracy: Artificial Intelligence and Democracy -- A video of an InternationIDEA webinar examining the impact of AI on democracy. worldwide. The panellists discussed the advantages and disadvantages of AI for democratic institutions, rights and values.
ID# 10278 -- 10278 -- The Global State of Democracy 2023: The New Checks and Balances -- A report from International IDEA observes that the global state of democray is "complex, fluid, and unequal", but that democracy has continued to contract worldwide.
ID# 10279 -- 10279 -- Make it a Habit: Be Hard on Issues But Soft on People -- A quick "how to" (and why) from Starts with Us as a good way to reduce polarization, improve relationships, and get more done.
ID# 10279 -- 10279 -- Make it a Habit: Be Hard on Issues But Soft on People -- A quick "how to" (and why) from Starts with Us as a good way to reduce polarization, improve relationships, and get more done.
ID# 10279 -- 10279 -- Make it a Habit: Be Hard on Issues But Soft on People -- A quick "how to" (and why) from Starts with Us as a good way to reduce polarization, improve relationships, and get more done.
ID# 10280 -- 10280 -- Addressing Chronic Violence from a Gendered Prespective: Fostering People-Centered Approaches at the National Level -- This report argues for reconceptualizing violence based on feminist conceptions, recognizing that societal structures, systemic discrimination and even pervasive cultural norms can be sources of violence.
ID# 10281 -- 10281 -- "How Scared Are You?" Mapping the Threat Environment of San Diego's Elected Officials -- This report from the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice discusses the extent of threats and harassment towards elected officials in San Diego County. San Diego is certainly not unique in this respect.
ID# 10282 -- 10282 -- IREX and the Community Solutions Program -- A report on innovations in networking and cooperation, looking at ways to build trust , overcome the free-rider problem, and inspire participation in collaborative projects among widespread participants.
ID# 10285 -- 10285 -- AI and Geopolitics: How Might AI Affect the Rise and Fall of Nations? -- Regardless of whether AI poses an existential risk to humanity, governments will need to develop new regulatory frameworks to identify, evaluate, and respond to the variety of AI-enabled challenges to come.
ID# 10290 -- 10290 -- What is Liberatory Learning -- This approach, based on Paulo Freire, argues that learning is a liberating practice that often thrives beyond the confines of educational systems.This approach benefits learners and teachers together.
ID# 10293 -- 10293 -- Getting to 3rd Space - Seth Kaplan-Part 1 -- Lamar Roth and Tom Klaus from Tenacious Change interview Seth Kaplan, about his book Fragile Neighborhoods, which explains how we can "repair American society, one zip code at a time."
ID# 10298 -- 10298 -- Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism in Schools (2022-2023) USA -- BRAVE Schools, a project of the Karuna Center, works in partnership with middle and high schools in Western Massachusetts to proactively engage students and staff in preventing violence and strengthening resilience.
ID# 10300 -- 10300 -- AllSides Media Bias Chart™ Version 9: Updated Ratings for AP, IJR, TIME, TheBlaze, and More -- An update on a systematic effort to assess the political bias of major news sources – an assessment that reveals that many publications are not as objective as their audience thinks.
ID# 10300 -- 10300 -- AllSides Media Bias Chart™ Version 9: Updated Ratings for AP, IJR, TIME, TheBlaze, and More -- An update on a systematic effort to assess the political bias of major news sources – an assessment that reveals that many publications are not as objective as their audience thinks.
ID# 10303 -- 10303 -- Choose the Activism That Won’t Make You Miserable -- As you think about getting involved in efforts to make the world a better place, practical advice on how to do this in a psychologically sustainable way -- and, make a real contribution.
ID# 10308 -- 10308 -- A Mixture of Pride and Shame -- To us, what seems like a sensible way of thinking about the tremendous achievements and terrible injustices that characterize the history of all civilizations.
ID# 10308 -- 10308 -- A Mixture of Pride and Shame -- To us, what seems like a sensible way of thinking about the tremendous achievements and terrible injustices that characterize the history of all civilizations.
ID# 10308 -- 10308 -- A Mixture of Pride and Shame -- To us, what seems like a sensible way of thinking about the tremendous achievements and terrible injustices that characterize the history of all civilizations.
ID# 10309 -- 10309 -- Defining ‘Woke’ (a Word We Should Probably All Stop Using) -- A thoughtful exploration of the many controversies swirling around the word "woke" and the difficulty of finding an agreed-upon name for a philosophy that is remaking society.
ID# 10319 -- 10319 -- Why AI Will Never Rival Human Creativity -- A perceptive, and for us humans, hopeful analysis of the difficulties associated with building a truly creative artificial intelligence.
ID# 10320 -- 10320 -- The Woke University’s Servant Class -- A look at the hypocritical mismatch between the university's conspicuous commitment to social justice and the exploitive way in which it treats "contingent" faculty.
ID# 10322 -- 10322 -- We need an area the size of Texas for wind and solar. Here’s how to halve it. -- An important first effort to seriously consider (and find constructive ways of limiting) the growing opposition to the staggering amounts of land that a wind/solar-based energy system will require.
ID# 10322 -- 10322 -- We need an area the size of Texas for wind and solar. Here’s how to halve it. -- An important first effort to seriously consider (and find constructive ways of limiting) the growing opposition to the staggering amounts of land that a wind/solar-based energy system will require.
ID# 10323 -- 10323 -- In Defense of Merit in Science -- A article so controversial that it could only be published in the "Journal of Controversial Ideas." Their argument -- science should be evaluated according to the merits of the arguments being made.
ID# 10326 -- 10326 -- What You See Is All There Is: The Menu Problem and Behavioral Science -- A quick summary of an especially important cognitive bias – one that continually threatens to get us into trouble.
ID# 10326 -- 10326 -- What You See Is All There Is: The Menu Problem and Behavioral Science -- A quick summary of an especially important cognitive bias – one that continually threatens to get us into trouble.
ID# 10327 -- 10327 -- You Are Not Destined to Live in Quiet Times -- An especially perceptive, big picture essay that places the time in which we are now living into the broader context of human history (while also helping us make sense of it all).
ID# 10327 -- 10327 -- You Are Not Destined to Live in Quiet Times -- An especially perceptive, big picture essay that places the time in which we are now living into the broader context of human history (while also helping us make sense of it all).
ID# 10327 -- 10327 -- You Are Not Destined to Live in Quiet Times -- An especially perceptive, big picture essay that places the time in which we are now living into the broader context of human history (while also helping us make sense of it all).
ID# 10335 -- 10335 -- The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won. -- A review and preview of an important and thought provoking new book on the dynamics that produce inequality, unfairness, poverty, and wealth.
ID# 10335 -- 10335 -- The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won. -- A review and preview of an important and thought provoking new book on the dynamics that produce inequality, unfairness, poverty, and wealth.
ID# 10336 -- 10336 -- Our Singular Century -- Thoughtful contemplation about the great breaks in history – when the past suddenly becomes a much less valuable guide to the future (and the fact that we are living through a series of such breaks).
ID# 10336 -- 10336 -- Our Singular Century -- Thoughtful contemplation about the great breaks in history – when the past suddenly becomes a much less valuable guide to the future (and the fact that we are living through a series of such breaks).
ID# 10336 -- 10336 -- Our Singular Century -- Thoughtful contemplation about the great breaks in history – when the past suddenly becomes a much less valuable guide to the future (and the fact that we are living through a series of such breaks).
ID# 10339 -- 10339 -- Why Some Companies Are Saying ‘Diversity and Belonging’ Instead of ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ -- A report on new thinking about diversity programs and hope that we might be learning how to craft these programs in ways that better live up to their lofty ideals.
ID# 10340 -- 10340 -- The Case for Violating the Debt Limit Is Dangerous Nonsense -- An explanation of why using clever legal loopholes to get around tough choices undermines the rule of law (and, in this case, is unlikely to work).
ID# 10341 -- 10341 -- Why do Americans want guns? It comes down to one word. -- An explanation of the big reason why people in the US want guns. It's not that they want to threaten others, they are afraid of others.
ID# 10342 -- 10342 -- The force behind America’s fast-growing nonprofit sector, and more! -- Stunning statistics about the huge role that nonprofit organizations play in US society.
ID# 10344 -- 10344 -- Orders of Disorder: Who Disbanded Iraq’s Army and De-Baathified Its Bureaucracy? -- A detailed look at exactly how two of the most consequential and catastrophic decisions of the Iraqi war were made (and an example of exactly how the course of history gets determined).
ID# 10349 -- 10349 -- A Politics Worth Watching -- A strategy that citizens, the news media, and philanthropists could use to present political issues in a way that can garner sustained and thoughtful public attention.
ID# 10349 -- 10349 -- A Politics Worth Watching -- A strategy that citizens, the news media, and philanthropists could use to present political issues in a way that can garner sustained and thoughtful public attention.
ID# 10352 -- 10352 -- Vanderbilt’s Bold Stand for ‘Neutrality’ -- An update on Vanderbilt's neutrality policy and a vision for progressively uncovering the truth through an examination of available evidence and an exchange of views about the meaning of that evidence.
ID# 10352 -- 10352 -- Vanderbilt’s Bold Stand for ‘Neutrality’ -- An update on Vanderbilt's neutrality policy and a vision for progressively uncovering the truth through an examination of available evidence and an exchange of views about the meaning of that evidence.
ID# 10353 -- 10353 -- My Country Was a Dictatorship Before. This Feels Worse. -- A sad story from Tunisia, the one place where we had hoped that the Arab Spring had succeeded.
ID# 10353 -- 10353 -- My Country Was a Dictatorship Before. This Feels Worse. -- A sad story from Tunisia, the one place where we had hoped that the Arab Spring had succeeded.
ID# 10354 -- 10354 -- The Anti-American Psychological Association -- A disturbing report on the degree to which the science of psychology has replaced objective consideration of the field's big questions with progressive advocacy.
ID# 10354 -- 10354 -- The Anti-American Psychological Association -- A disturbing report on the degree to which the science of psychology has replaced objective consideration of the field's big questions with progressive advocacy.
ID# 10357 -- 10357 -- A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox -- A genuinely interesting network-building strategy and a way to expand and diversify the information bubbles in which we all live.
ID# 10360 -- 10360 -- How Therapists Became Social Justice Warriors -- More on the fuzzy line between psychotherapy and politics and the notion that one political view constitutes absolute truth.
ID# 10363 -- 10363 -- An Experiment Repeated 600 Times Finds Hints to Evolution’s Secrets -- For students of evolutionary dynamics, a report on an experiment that has tracked evolutionary processes for over 600 generations!
ID# 10367 -- 10367 -- The Left’s War on the Rule of Law -- An argument that the left is attempting to advance its political agenda by undermining the democratic institutions that it claims to be defending.
ID# 10368 -- 10368 -- Is This the End of Recycling? -- An explanation of the serious challenges now facing recycling programs and why we need to move beyond feel-good programs that don't really deliver on their promised benefits.
ID# 10369 -- 10369 -- The Billionaires Who Are Threatening Democracy -- Important detail on how, exactly, the super wealthy exert their influence and undermine democratic institutions.
ID# 10369 -- 10369 -- The Billionaires Who Are Threatening Democracy -- Important detail on how, exactly, the super wealthy exert their influence and undermine democratic institutions.
ID# 10370 -- 10370 -- Collective Guilt is the Most Indefensible Form of Cancel Culture -- A look at how the "cancel culture" embraces a kind of collective punishment that, in other contexts, is seen as a serious human rights violation.
ID# 10371 -- 10371 -- Who Bends History? -- At a time when we would like to think that the "arc of history" bends towards justice, a provocative essay exploring exactly how history gets "bent."
ID# 10372 -- 10372 -- Our Weaponized Legal System Misfires -- A must read article explaining "lawfare" and how both parties are abusing the legal system in ways that constitute one of the most serious threats to democracy.
ID# 10374 -- 10374 -- Where Is the Electoral Payoff to Progressivism? -- A provocative look at whether the progressive agenda is, in fact, a winning political strategy.
ID# 10375 -- 10375 -- Cable News Viewers Aren’t as Extreme as You Might Think -- An essay that does something genuinely useful – break down unrealistic and inflammatory stereotypes.
ID# 10377 -- 10377 -- Climate Change and Disaster Losses -- A look at what one needs to consider if one wants to rigorously assess the impacts of climate change (and allocate scarce resources wisely).
ID# 10377 -- 10377 -- Climate Change and Disaster Losses -- A look at what one needs to consider if one wants to rigorously assess the impacts of climate change (and allocate scarce resources wisely).
ID# 10379 -- 10379 -- The United States Needs a Moonshot to Prevent Extremism from Metastasizing -- From the RAND Corporation (and the military-industrial complex), an overview of the latest thinking on strategies for combating extremism.
ID# 10379 -- 10379 -- The United States Needs a Moonshot to Prevent Extremism from Metastasizing -- From the RAND Corporation (and the military-industrial complex), an overview of the latest thinking on strategies for combating extremism.
ID# 10380 -- 10380 -- If No Labels Pushes a ‘Unity Candidate,’ Expect a ‘Trainwreck,’ Group’s Allies Say -- An update for those who have been following (with hope and/or trepidation) plans for a more moderate, third-party Presidential campaign.
ID# 10381 -- 10381 -- Second Order Thinking -- A lighthearted look at a lighthearted look at a very serious topic -- the importance of "downside" planning.
ID# 10382 -- 10382 -- The Promise (and Peril) of Anti-Wokeness -- A thought-provoking essay exploring ways of thinking about (but not being consumed by) things that make you angry.
ID# 10388 -- 10388 -- Why is empathy central to democracy? -- From George Lakeoff, an insightful look into the relationship between empathy and democracy.
ID# 10394 -- 10394 -- Anti-Fascist. Armed to the Teeth -- Disturbing news that the escalation spiral is starting to produce significant, armed militias on the left as well as the right.
ID# 10395 -- 10395 -- What Happens When a Cascade of Crises Collide? -- A quick summary of the ideas behind an important new word – the polycrisis.
ID# 10400 -- 10400 -- Unanswered Questions About Trump and Russia -- From the Wall Street Journal, an attempt to look beyond the left's political rhetoric and disinformation and focus on the true, unanswered questions about President Trump's relationship with the Russians.
ID# 10425 -- 10425 -- A Firearm-Owning Republican’s Solutions for Gun Violence -- A look at what the Zone of Possible Agreement looks like with respect to gun control in the US.
ID# 10425 -- 10425 -- A Firearm-Owning Republican’s Solutions for Gun Violence -- A look at what the Zone of Possible Agreement looks like with respect to gun control in the US.
ID# 10436 -- 10436 -- Tucker Carlson and the new standard we need -- Reflections on the "cancellation" of Tucker Carlson and the need for a set of moral standards that are applied equally to all.
ID# 10440 -- 10440 -- U.S.’s political madness takes place against a backdrop of astonishing strength -- Amid today's dominant focus on the many things that are going wrong, a call for also paying attention to the things that are going right.
ID# 10440 -- 10440 -- U.S.’s political madness takes place against a backdrop of astonishing strength -- Amid today's dominant focus on the many things that are going wrong, a call for also paying attention to the things that are going right.
ID# 10447 -- 10447 -- How to Succeed in the Foreign-Policy Blob -- Wise and practical advice for those seeking a career in international relations, peacebuilding, or any other conflict-related field.
ID# 10448 -- 10448 -- The psychological dangers of being in a silo -- A look at the downsides of living inside a homogeneous information bubble.
ID# 10448 -- 10448 -- The psychological dangers of being in a silo -- A look at the downsides of living inside a homogeneous information bubble.
ID# 10454 -- 10454 -- Colombia’s Peace-Whisperer Makes Plenty of Enemies -- A profile of what it takes to fill one of society's most difficult and dangerous roles – that of a peacemaker.
ID# 10455 -- 10455 -- "Misinformation" isn't just on the right -- A timely reminder that the complex dynamics that lead to a misinformed citizenry afflict those the left and the center as well as the right.
ID# 10455 -- 10455 -- "Misinformation" isn't just on the right -- A timely reminder that the complex dynamics that lead to a misinformed citizenry afflict those the left and the center as well as the right.
ID# 10455 -- 10455 -- "Misinformation" isn't just on the right -- A timely reminder that the complex dynamics that lead to a misinformed citizenry afflict those the left and the center as well as the right.
ID# 10456 -- 10456 -- Manufacturing Dissent -- A look at the very long shadow cast by Noam Chomsky and the many others who have taught so many on the left and the right to look at the dark side of almost everything.
ID# 10458 -- 10458 -- Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Mind -- The thought-provoking exploration of the intersection between information technologies (past and future) and the human mind.
ID# 10460 -- 10460 -- The World Needs Neutrals -- For those too frequent times when war breaks out, a reminder of the critical role played by neutral humanitarian organizations like the Red Cross.
ID# 10461 -- 10461 -- Politics is Designed to Alienate Most Americans -- An important call for building a political system that better represents the 50+% percent of the electorate that rejects the hard partisanship of the left and the right.
ID# 10462 -- 10462 -- 3 tips on how to argue — and find common ground — from a debate champion. -- Solid advice on how to transform either/or debates into a search for common ground.
ID# 10462 -- 10462 -- 3 tips on how to argue — and find common ground — from a debate champion. -- Solid advice on how to transform either/or debates into a search for common ground.
ID# 10464 -- 10464 -- Why it's so hard to fix the information ecosystem -- A thoughtful inventory of the things that make it so hard to remedy today's destructive information flows – problems which we have to find a way to overcome.
ID# 10464 -- 10464 -- Why it's so hard to fix the information ecosystem -- A thoughtful inventory of the things that make it so hard to remedy today's destructive information flows – problems which we have to find a way to overcome.
ID# 10465 -- 10465 -- A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn -- A story about how leaders of the tech industry are trying to persuade society to take the steps needed to protect itself from the downsides of AI.
ID# 10466 -- 10466 -- Statement on AI Risk -- A link to the statement on AI risks that people are being asked to sign as part of an effort to draw attention to the issue. Could this strategy be used elsewhere?
ID# 10468 -- 10468 -- Stimulant Politics: Arousal, Agitation, Amphetamines, and the Froth of Politics -- A look at what makes the "hyper" in hyper-polarization so "hyper."
ID# 10474 -- 10474 -- Race once governed U.S. voting patterns. That’s quickly changing. -- A look at how the association between race and voting behavior is evolving (and undermining many common and simplistic assumptions).
ID# 10474 -- 10474 -- Race once governed U.S. voting patterns. That’s quickly changing. -- A look at how the association between race and voting behavior is evolving (and undermining many common and simplistic assumptions).
ID# 10483 -- 10483 -- The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege -- All institutions in positions of power and authority ought to routinely ask themselves hard questions about whether they are living up to their responsibilities. The DEI "industry" is no exception.
ID# 10484 -- 10484 -- Rethinking Democracy for the Age of AI -- Thoughtful ideas on how democratic institutions dating from the mid-18th century can be adapted to the scale and complexity of the 21st-century.
ID# 10486 -- 10486 -- Machiavelli Preferred Democracy to Tyranny -- From one of history's great experts on tyranny (Machiavelli), strong support for democracy.
ID# 10487 -- 10487 -- Class Dismissed -- How material abundance erodes class but intensifies social status. -- Thoughtful insights into the meaning of class (which is not as simple as we tend to think) and the role that it plays in contemporary conflict.
ID# 10491 -- 10491 -- The Invention of Objectivity -- For a world in which the search for objective truth is critically important and a focal point for conflict, thoughtful reflections on the origins of the concept.
ID# 10493 -- 10493 -- Tim Urban: Why are we so divided? And what can we do about it? -- An interesting TED talk exploring how we can move toward a world that is less angry and more filled with curiosity, cooperation, and respect.
ID# 10494 -- 10494 -- The Real Cost of Cheap Labour -- A thoughtful exploration of the origins of an economy that pays so many so little and an explanation of why it is in our best interest to change this.
ID# 10494 -- 10494 -- The Real Cost of Cheap Labour -- A thoughtful exploration of the origins of an economy that pays so many so little and an explanation of why it is in our best interest to change this.
ID# 10496 -- 10496 -- The new academy: modern intellectuals are writing their best ideas on Substack -- A look at the way in which Substack is emerging as an exciting new forum for exchanging thoughtful ideas on the complex problems facing humanity.
ID# 10498 -- 10498 -- The Minimum Viable Navy -- A look at the way in which the U.S. Navy is thinking about emerging security challenges and a look at the dangers associated with our slide into a new Cold War.
ID# 10499 -- 10499 -- Models of antiquity -- For those tempted to discount the lessons of the past, a story about how earlier radicals in the ""Age of Revolution"" saw the classical world as a common inheritance that could aid their fight for liberty.
ID# 10501 -- 10501 -- The American Left’s Fantastic Threats -- A provocative and, if true, game-changing argument that many of the things that the left most fears about the right are nowhere nearly as serious as is widely believed.
ID# 10501 -- 10501 -- The American Left’s Fantastic Threats -- A provocative and, if true, game-changing argument that many of the things that the left most fears about the right are nowhere nearly as serious as is widely believed.
ID# 10502 -- 10502 -- The Age of Spectacle Is Upon Us -- An insightful essay explaining how so many social institutions are moving away from their core responsibilities and acting in ways that inflame tensions.
ID# 10527 -- 10527 -- The Abortion Talks: A Documentary -- A documentary describing one of the conflict field's most successful efforts to build mutual understanding and respect across deep moral differences.
ID# 10527 -- 10527 -- The Abortion Talks: A Documentary -- A documentary describing one of the conflict field's most successful efforts to build mutual understanding and respect across deep moral differences.
ID# 10564 -- 10564 -- Courageous Dialogues -- A research project that aims to identify best strategies, tools, and practices for overcoming polarization in various contexts.
ID# 10564 -- 10564 -- Courageous Dialogues -- A research project that aims to identify best strategies, tools, and practices for overcoming polarization in various contexts.
ID# 10589 -- 10589 -- Support for political violence depends on specifics, study shows -- 0
ID# 10593 -- 10593 -- Opinion: How Joe Rogan's vaccine-debate pitch undermines real science -- A provocative look at the circumstances under which debate does and does not help audiences develop a more accurate and morally sound opinions about controversial issues.
ID# 10594 -- 10594 -- World War III Will Be Fought With Viruses -- Yet another reason why we should not assume that catastrophic world wars are a thing of the past. The time has come to give war prevention the additional attention it deserves.
ID# 10595 -- 10595 -- The Rage and Joy of MAGA America -- A thoughtful essay offering those on the progressive left new insights into the appeal of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.
ID# 10595 -- 10595 -- The Rage and Joy of MAGA America -- A thoughtful essay offering those on the progressive left new insights into the appeal of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.
ID# 10595 -- 10595 -- The Rage and Joy of MAGA America -- A thoughtful essay offering those on the progressive left new insights into the appeal of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.
ID# 10596 -- 10596 -- The Case Against Longtermism -- A contrarian look at long-termism for those thinking about embracing the concept.
ID# 10597 -- 10597 -- Google Isn’t Grad School -- An exploration of the relationship between the ability to retrieve lots facts relevant to a particular issue and real thinking.
ID# 10598 -- 10598 -- A Radical Idea for Fixing Congress: Proportional Representation -- An idea for restructuring Congress in ways that replace the current, usually noncompetitive "winner take all" system with real choices that help assure that minority views are represented.
ID# 10599 -- 10599 -- The Fury in France—and Across the West -- An essay that helps explain large-scale civil unrest that has been sweeping France and how it is different from the United States' superficially similar George Floyd protests.
ID# 10600 -- 10600 -- Two visions of environmentalism -- A thoughtful and important observation that the conflict is not between the pro-and anti-environmental movement but between two different visions for the environmental movement.
ID# 10601 -- 10601 -- The End of Democratic Capitalism? -- A review of an important new contribution to efforts to understand and surmount the challenges facing democracy and its capitalist economic system.
ID# 10602 -- 10602 -- What the U.S. Military Still Hasn’t Learned From Iraq -- Key to not repeating the mistakes of the past is an ability to learn from those mistakes – something that the United States is not doing very well as it looks back on the war on terror.
ID# 10603 -- 10603 -- The Case For Effective Altruism -- A supportive look at theories of change built around the notion of effective altruism and long-termism.
ID# 10605 -- 10605 -- Biden faces renewed pressure to embrace Supreme Court overhaul -- More evidence that the credibility of the United States' judicial system is collapsing and being replaced by partisan efforts to shape the courts so in ways that deliver the politically desired judgements.
ID# 10605 -- 10605 -- Biden faces renewed pressure to embrace Supreme Court overhaul -- More evidence that the credibility of the United States' judicial system is collapsing and being replaced by partisan efforts to shape the courts so in ways that deliver the politically desired judgements.
ID# 10606 -- 10606 -- What Makes Putin and the World’s Autocrats So Resilient? -- As we think about ways of building a more resilient democracy, it's worth paying attention to what makes autocracy resilient and why it's so important that we let it get established.
ID# 10606 -- 10606 -- What Makes Putin and the World’s Autocrats So Resilient? -- As we think about ways of building a more resilient democracy, it's worth paying attention to what makes autocracy resilient and why it's so important that we let it get established.
ID# 10607 -- 10607 -- 10 Notes on the End of Affirmative Action -- A series of provocative and controversial observations about affirmative action well worth considering.
ID# 10610 -- 10610 -- Climate Journalism is Broken -- A look at the way in which the many problems afflicting contemporary journalism are impacting coverage of climate-related issues and, potentially, distorting our response to the crisis.
ID# 10610 -- 10610 -- Climate Journalism is Broken -- A look at the way in which the many problems afflicting contemporary journalism are impacting coverage of climate-related issues and, potentially, distorting our response to the crisis.
ID# 10611 -- 10611 -- Extremism In Defense of Moderation Is No Virtue -- A review/summary of an important new book about why the U.S. Congress is so dysfunctional and what might be done about it.
ID# 10612 -- 10612 -- The Corruption of Lindsey Graham -- A lengthy and very detailed analysis of the incremental changes that led to Donald Trump's transformation of the Republican Party and its increasing embrace of authoritarianism.
ID# 10612 -- 10612 -- The Corruption of Lindsey Graham -- A lengthy and very detailed analysis of the incremental changes that led to Donald Trump's transformation of the Republican Party and its increasing embrace of authoritarianism.
ID# 10612 -- 10612 -- The Corruption of Lindsey Graham -- A lengthy and very detailed analysis of the incremental changes that led to Donald Trump's transformation of the Republican Party and its increasing embrace of authoritarianism.
ID# 10613 -- 10613 -- Here’s why supplying Ukraine with cluster munitions would be a terrible mistake -- In the context of Ukraine, an assessment of the complex issues surrounding attempts to ban weapons of war that cause death and destruction long after the fighting ends.
ID# 10614 -- 10614 -- The Age of Mass Protests: Understanding an Escalating Global Trend -- The fact that mass protests seem to be increasing worldwide suggests that there are deeper dynamics at play -- it's not just local politics.
ID# 10614 -- 10614 -- The Age of Mass Protests: Understanding an Escalating Global Trend -- The fact that mass protests seem to be increasing worldwide suggests that there are deeper dynamics at play -- it's not just local politics.
ID# 10618 -- 10618 -- The Great Convergence: Global Equality and Its Discontents -- Amid our continuing anguish over Increasing inequality, an essay that takes a global perspective – one that reveals that, at that level, inequality is decreasing, not increasing.
ID# 10620 -- 10620 -- It Turns Out That the Debt Matters After All -- After years of resolving political disagreements by spending (and borrowing) ever more money, news that the economic rationalizations for limitless borrowing may be incorrect.
ID# 10622 -- 10622 -- Don’t Let Big Tech Hide What It Is Doing to Us -- An important story about Europe's new effort to get the downsides of the high-tech information revolution under control.
ID# 10623 -- 10623 -- Civility Isn’t Weakness—It’s How We Win -- An impassioned and persuasive defense of civility even when confronting uncivil political adversaries.
ID# 10623 -- 10623 -- Civility Isn’t Weakness—It’s How We Win -- An impassioned and persuasive defense of civility even when confronting uncivil political adversaries.
ID# 10633 -- 10633 -- With civil war dangerously close, seven leading Israeli activists and thinkers have an idea ... -- In Israel, where the process of hyper-polarization has brought the country to the brink of civil war, creative ideas for diffusing the crisis.
ID# 10634 -- 10634 -- In France, Nihilistic Protest Is Becoming the Norm -- From France, the story about a new kind of political upheaval – one in which large numbers of people have become so alienated from the rest of society that they just want to tear it apart.
ID# 10635 -- 10635 -- Our two-party political system isn’t working. The fix? More parties. -- Another creative idea for diffusing the United States' hyper-polarized politics worth considering – change the rules in ways which encourage more political parties.
ID# 10640 -- 10640 -- World Health Organization Pushes Sweeping Censorship Treaty -- Time to think about how a solution to one problem (rampant medical disinformation) may be creating another more serious problem – global censorship of anyone who challenges the elites.
ID# 10641 -- 10641 -- News in a Digital Age -- A major report from the Rand Corporation exploring the many ways in which the high-tech information revolution has transformed the flow of information regarding political issues.
ID# 10641 -- 10641 -- News in a Digital Age -- A major report from the Rand Corporation exploring the many ways in which the high-tech information revolution has transformed the flow of information regarding political issues.
ID# 10642 -- 10642 -- At High School Debates, Watch What You Say -- High school debates have long been praised for helping students learn how to constructively grapple with controversial issues. Now, unwelcome news that they are moving away from that role.
ID# 10643 -- 10643 -- Alexei Navalny: This is what a post-Putin Russia should look like -- From Russia's most prominent dissident, a thoughtful proposal for how Russia, in the post-Putin period, could restructure its government in ways that reduce the risk of aggressive authoritarianism.
ID# 10645 -- 10645 -- For DEI Supporters, Perpetuation of Racism Is Good Business -- All political movements should guard against the tendency to become a self-perpetuating bureaucracy -- one that undermines rather, than advances, the movement's core goals.
ID# 10647 -- 10647 -- The Russian Mutiny and the Inherent Instability of Autocracies -- Important reminders about the limits and instability of autocratic power
ID# 10647 -- 10647 -- The Russian Mutiny and the Inherent Instability of Autocracies -- Important reminders about the limits and instability of autocratic power
ID# 10660 -- 10660 -- Why this governor is promoting ‘healthy conflict’ -- Genuinely good news, the incoming chair of the National Governors Association, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) plans to focus his attention on the cultivation of "healthy conflict" and the ability to "disagree better."
ID# 10661 -- 10661 -- The Social Media Wars Are Here -- A look at the complex forces that are about to radically transform our social media-based information system
ID# 10668 -- 10668 -- What Was the Fact? -- An examination of the role that "facts" have played in the evolution of society and thoughts about the implications of their recent demise.
ID# 10676 -- 10676 -- Talkin’ ’Bout Our Generations: How They Shape Our Style, Our Vacations and Why We’re Us -- A great deal of conflict traces to the fact that different generations have dramatically different life experiences – experiences that shape their beliefs and behaviors.
ID# 10677 -- 10677 -- The Promise of Individualism -- Provocative thoughts about the advantages of our individualistic culture and a caution about abandoning it too easily.
ID# 10681 -- 10681 -- We fixed I-95 in 12 days. Here are our lessons for U.S. infrastructure. -- A story (with lots of practical implications) of how, when we really want to, we can resolve disputes and make decisions quickly in ways that actually get things done.
ID# 10682 -- 10682 -- The Tale of Rising Inequality Turned Out to Be Wrong -- A hopeful argument that, while we were all worrying about how increasing inequality was tearing society apart, inequality started decreasing!
ID# 10683 -- 10683 -- We’re Entering a New Era of Shady Campaign Finance -- An instructive example of why political reforms have to be carefully monitored -- unscrupulous actors will find loopholes that need to be plugged.
ID# 10686 -- 10686 -- The Pseudoscience of Critical Race Theory -- Amid all of the uncertainty about what "critical race theory" is and isn't, a detailed look and critical assessment of its core assertions (with lots of links).
ID# 10692 -- 10692 -- Should Ukraine Negotiate With Russia? -- In the context of the war in Ukraine, an examination of the tough choices that would-be peacemakers have to make.
ID# 10692 -- 10692 -- Should Ukraine Negotiate With Russia? -- In the context of the war in Ukraine, an examination of the tough choices that would-be peacemakers have to make.
ID# 10696 -- 10696 -- Why I Developed Ethical Individualism Theory -- Food for thought for those trying to understand what, in our individualistic culture, they owe the larger society.
ID# 10696 -- 10696 -- Why I Developed Ethical Individualism Theory -- Food for thought for those trying to understand what, in our individualistic culture, they owe the larger society.
ID# 10698 -- 10698 -- The Problem with Lived Experience -- Listening to people with experience actually struggling through today's big problems can provide important insights. Excessive focus on these "lived experiences," however, can also get us into trouble.
ID# 10703 -- 10703 -- ‘Gut-level Hatred’ Is Consuming Our Political Life -- A review, with lots of links, of what the latest political science research is telling us about the nature and depth of our hyper-polarized politics.
ID# 10710 -- 10710 -- What the IPCC Actually Says About Extreme Weather -- For those who want to trust the science (not political rhetoric), a review of what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says about the relationship between weather disasters and climate change.
ID# 10723 -- 10723 -- We Will Never Run Out of Resources -- A reassuring update on Julian Simon's classic observation that human ingenuity is the "ultimate Resource" – a resource capable of overcoming all material shortages.
ID# 10725 -- 10725 -- The Left’s Social Contract Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It -- A look back at the left's many successes over the last 75 years, an argument that today's progressive advocacy is undermining that progress, and suggestions about how to fix things.
ID# 10725 -- 10725 -- The Left’s Social Contract Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It -- A look back at the left's many successes over the last 75 years, an argument that today's progressive advocacy is undermining that progress, and suggestions about how to fix things.
ID# 10727 -- 10727 -- ‘Antiracists’ vs. Academic Freedom -- A look at the way in which California Community Colleges (with 1.8 million students) are assuring that all faculty members are unquestioningly supportive of the system's DEI policies.
ID# 10729 -- 10729 -- The Damaged Brands of America’s Two Political Parties -- A report on a new poll that documents the growing gap between the positions of the United States' two political parties and the general population.
ID# 10730 -- 10730 -- The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity -- A description of an expensive and bold initiative designed to help assure us that the coming AI revolution will provide us with information we can trust.
ID# 10733 -- 10733 -- The Right's Plot for a Moral Transformation -- The Left tends to think that social problems are caused by economic factors while the Right emphasizes the role of culture. In this context, an explanation of a culture-based theory of social change.
ID# 10737 -- 10737 -- The Risks of One of the Most Severe Tools in America’s Foreign Policy Arsenal -- We tend to think of economic sanctions as an effective and generally nonviolent way of confronting geopolitical rivals. Is that true? What are the upsides and the downsides?
ID# 10741 -- 10741 -- Backlash to climate policies is growing. A new strategy is needed. -- Growing reason to believe that many projects designed to reduce CO2 emissions are running into serious trouble because of a failure to anticipate respond effectively to likely sources of conflict.
ID# 10741 -- 10741 -- Backlash to climate policies is growing. A new strategy is needed. -- Growing reason to believe that many projects designed to reduce CO2 emissions are running into serious trouble because of a failure to anticipate respond effectively to likely sources of conflict.
ID# 10742 -- 10742 -- Business Is Caught in a Diversity Trap -- A story about what happens when Democratic and Republican-led states tell businesses that they have to approach questions of racial equity in different and incompatible ways.
ID# 10748 -- 10748 -- Protest Porn -- The pleasure-seeking behind today’s righteous causes -- An analysis of the complex psychological reasons why people become involved in mass protests and why those protests are often viewed in such apocalyptic terms.
ID# 10748 -- 10748 -- Protest Porn -- The pleasure-seeking behind today’s righteous causes -- An analysis of the complex psychological reasons why people become involved in mass protests and why those protests are often viewed in such apocalyptic terms.
ID# 10748 -- 10748 -- Protest Porn -- The pleasure-seeking behind today’s righteous causes -- An analysis of the complex psychological reasons why people become involved in mass protests and why those protests are often viewed in such apocalyptic terms.
ID# 10750 -- 10750 -- How to Know When a Prosecution Is Political -- A practical guide for determining when political prosecutions arise from legitimate efforts to equitably enforce the rule of law and when they are disingenuous tactics used to weaken a political rival.
ID# 10750 -- 10750 -- How to Know When a Prosecution Is Political -- A practical guide for determining when political prosecutions arise from legitimate efforts to equitably enforce the rule of law and when they are disingenuous tactics used to weaken a political rival.
ID# 10751 -- 10751 -- Democrats and Republicans Are Living in Different Worlds -- A big reason why our conflicts are so intense is that we have such different images of the world that we think we inhabit.
ID# 10754 -- 10754 -- How Trumpism Differs From Fascism -- An argument that, unlike the first Trump administration, a second Trump administration might actually constituted new kind of fascism – one that favors isolationism over expansionism.
ID# 10765 -- 10765 -- ‘The Country’s Already Been Destroyed’ -- An especially well-informed and thorough analysis of Israel's ongoing difficulties and look at how quickly complex societal conflicts can spin out of control.
ID# 10766 -- 10766 -- The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics -- A clear and persuasive explanation of how statistical data provides a way of looking at the world that is different from and, in many ways, superior to more direct and personal sources of information.
ID# 10767 -- 10767 -- The A(braham) Bomb -- A thought-provoking way of looking at the grand sweep of human history – one that focuses on the long shadow of the Abrahamic faiths and the belief we can somehow perfect society.
ID# 10776 -- 10776 -- ‘Anger and radicalization’: rising number of Americans say political violence is justified -- Yet another poll indicating that the United States is precariously close to crossing the taboo line that normally prevents our hardball politics from crossing the line into outright violence.
ID# 10776 -- 10776 -- ‘Anger and radicalization’: rising number of Americans say political violence is justified -- Yet another poll indicating that the United States is precariously close to crossing the taboo line that normally prevents our hardball politics from crossing the line into outright violence.
ID# 10776 -- 10776 -- ‘Anger and radicalization’: rising number of Americans say political violence is justified -- Yet another poll indicating that the United States is precariously close to crossing the taboo line that normally prevents our hardball politics from crossing the line into outright violence.
ID# 10776 -- 10776 -- ‘Anger and radicalization’: rising number of Americans say political violence is justified -- Yet another poll indicating that the United States is precariously close to crossing the taboo line that normally prevents our hardball politics from crossing the line into outright violence.
ID# 10779 -- 10779 -- Let the Tragedy in My Homeland Be a Lesson -- For a time in which it is common to characterize one's political opponents in extreme terms, a look at the plight of the Uyghurs shows what extreme political violence and cultural genocide actually looks like.
ID# 10780 -- 10780 -- How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate -- More on disturbing trends in the way in which we teach high school debaters how to think about the issues and the almost nihilistic strategy that undermines the very notion of constructive policy debate.
ID# 10786 -- 10786 -- A Time for Statesmanship -- A detailed and eloquent argument calling for the rediscovery of civic-minded leadership and the need for civil servants committed to advancing the common good (not just their political fortunes).
ID# 10786 -- 10786 -- A Time for Statesmanship -- A detailed and eloquent argument calling for the rediscovery of civic-minded leadership and the need for civil servants committed to advancing the common good (not just their political fortunes).
ID# 10787 -- 10787 -- We keep moving from one wrong fight to another. Here’s how to stop. -- Thoughtful insights into our tendency to move from one us-vs-them confrontation to another while simultaneously avoiding serious efforts to work through and learn from our differences.
ID# 10787 -- 10787 -- We keep moving from one wrong fight to another. Here’s how to stop. -- Thoughtful insights into our tendency to move from one us-vs-them confrontation to another while simultaneously avoiding serious efforts to work through and learn from our differences.
ID# 10795 -- 10795 -- Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon -- The best lay explanation that I have seen thus far about how the large language models underlying AI actually work.
ID# 10797 -- 10797 -- Journalists should be skeptical of all sources —including scientists -- From Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight fame, a detailed look at the COVID lab leak controversy and a spectacular example of how science can betray the public trust.
ID# 10801 -- 10801 -- AI’s Growing Legal Troubles -- An informative look at the legal disputes that are now casting a very long shadow over the future of AI development efforts.
ID# 10803 -- 10803 -- How To Overhaul Higher Education -- For the many who are deeply frustrated by the current state of higher education, specific reform proposals. We need to encourage comparable proposals for reforming our other troubled institutions.
ID# 10806 -- 10806 -- Women Know Exactly What They’re Doing When They Use ‘Weak Language’ -- From a dispute resolution perspective (and a feminist rights perspective), to look at the pros and cons of so-called "weak language."
ID# 10808 -- 10808 -- The First Great Crisis of a Second Trump Term -- An essay exploring what might happen should President Trump's criminal prosecutions come into direct conflict with his electoral success.
ID# 10809 -- 10809 -- Ignore the Histrionic Attacks on the Supreme Court -- Amid attacks from the left on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, an argument that the court has, in fact, been fulfilling its responsibilities under the US system of checks and balances.
ID# 10810 -- 10810 -- How to Escape ‘the Worst Possible Timeline’ -- An insightful examination of the complex psychology swirling around our pervasive sense pessimism plus thoughts on how to constructively grapple with our many problems without being consumed by them.
ID# 10810 -- 10810 -- How to Escape ‘the Worst Possible Timeline’ -- An insightful examination of the complex psychology swirling around our pervasive sense pessimism plus thoughts on how to constructively grapple with our many problems without being consumed by them.
ID# 10813 -- 10813 -- Vivek Ramaswamy Wants a Second American Revolution -- As the left continues to call for some type of political revolution, a look at what a political revolution from the right might actually look like.
ID# 10820 -- 10820 -- What if We’re the Bad Guys Here? -- A must-read article that does much to explain President Trump's continuing popularity and the role that the cosmopolitan elites have played in helping him survive his steady stream of scandals.
ID# 10820 -- 10820 -- What if We’re the Bad Guys Here? -- A must-read article that does much to explain President Trump's continuing popularity and the role that the cosmopolitan elites have played in helping him survive his steady stream of scandals.
ID# 10840 -- 10840 -- Conversation with the Co-Convenors of the Trust Network: Prabha Sankaranarayan, D.G. Mawn, and Madhawa Palihapitiya -- 0
ID# 10841 -- 10841 -- Anne Leslie: Embracing Ambiguity -- 0
ID# 10847 -- 10847 -- Update and Current Implications of Chip Hauss's 2003 Essay on Reconciliation -- Four updates (from 2017, 2018, and 2020) to Chip Hauss's original essay on Reconciliation.
ID# 10852 -- 10852 -- Overcoming Oppression Through Persuasion -- Persuasion doesn't have the risks that come with the use of force, and can be very effective.
ID# 10857 -- 10857 -- Maintaining Oppression -- All four need to be understood and addressed if oppression is to be overcome.
ID# 10912 -- 10912 -- One Sentence Does Not Define a Curriculum -- An attempt to get beyond the inflammatory focus on a single passage and understand more completely how the Florida curriculum would actually cover slavery.
ID# 10939 -- 10939 -- Democrats and Republicans aren’t divided by gender, they’re divided by marriage -- Stunning and surprising statistics about the decisive role that unmarried women play in the Democratic coalition. (All other marital groups tilt toward Republicans!)
ID# 10941 -- 10941 -- The Culture of Transgression -- An informed and thoughtful critique of the progressive, Democratic elite that does much to explain the intensity and strength of the populist opposition. Something everyone ought to read.
ID# 10942 -- 10942 -- The myth of asymmetric polarization -- A challenge to the comforting illusion that our hyper-polarization crisis is being driven solely by right-wing populists and that those on the left are merely innocent victims.
ID# 10964 -- 10964 -- A Path to Civic Pluralism -- An insightful summary of the philosophic foundation of pluralistic democracy – an essential component of any effort to build a diverse society that really works.
ID# 10964 -- 10964 -- A Path to Civic Pluralism -- An insightful summary of the philosophic foundation of pluralistic democracy – an essential component of any effort to build a diverse society that really works.
ID# 10967 -- 10967 -- India Is on the Brink -- From India, a story about how hyper-polarized politics has inflamed social tensions to the point where true authoritarian rule and large-scale violence are imminent. (This is what we are trying to prevent (and reverse).
ID# 10968 -- 10968 -- Ditching Diversity Myths -- For a time in which "diversity" enjoys so much social (and legal) prominence, a thought-provoking essay about what the term means and the degree to which it ought to be cultivated.
ID# 10970 -- 10970 -- Let’s Have a Face-Off on Trump’s Indictment -- A readable analysis (with lots of links) of the legal and political complexities of President Trump's upcoming trial.
ID# 10973 -- 10973 -- Populism thrives because people are mad, and also because they’re sad -- A report on a new analysis of the complex sociopolitical factors underlying right-leaning populism in the US.
ID# 10974 -- 10974 -- Slow counteroffensive darkens mood in Ukraine -- News that the dream of a decisive victory in Ukraine is fading and that we may be entering into a protracted "hurting stalemate" (a period where prospects for a negotiated end of the fighting increase).
ID# 10979 -- 10979 -- Hey, America, Grow Up! -- A retrospective look at how social psychological changes that have occurred in Western societies over the last several decades have made our problems so much more intractable.
ID# 10979 -- 10979 -- Hey, America, Grow Up! -- A retrospective look at how social psychological changes that have occurred in Western societies over the last several decades have made our problems so much more intractable.
ID# 10981 -- 10981 -- Ukraine’s Sea Drones Alter Balance of Power in Black Sea -- In times of war, military technology advances very quickly with profound implications for the strategic balance. Ukraine is no exception.
ID# 10982 -- 10982 -- The Seven Social-Media Commandments -- Constructive steps that we can all take to limit the adverse impacts that the various social media platforms so often have on our lives.
ID# 10982 -- 10982 -- The Seven Social-Media Commandments -- Constructive steps that we can all take to limit the adverse impacts that the various social media platforms so often have on our lives.
ID# 10982 -- 10982 -- The Seven Social-Media Commandments -- Constructive steps that we can all take to limit the adverse impacts that the various social media platforms so often have on our lives.
ID# 10982 -- 10982 -- The Seven Social-Media Commandments -- Constructive steps that we can all take to limit the adverse impacts that the various social media platforms so often have on our lives.
ID# 10983 -- 10983 -- If You Don't Know Where You Are Going, It Is Going to Be Hard to Get There -- 0
ID# 10984 -- 10984 -- Beyond Conflict's Reports on America's Divided Mind and Renewing American Democracy -- 0
ID# 10984 -- 10984 -- Beyond Conflict's Reports on America's Divided Mind and Renewing American Democracy -- 0
ID# 10985 -- 10985 -- Not a False Flag, a More Effective Strategy for Fighting Oppression: the Burgesses Respond to Jackie Font-Guzmán and Bernie Mayer -- 0
ID# 10985 -- 10985 -- Not a False Flag, a More Effective Strategy for Fighting Oppression: the Burgesses Respond to Jackie Font-Guzmán and Bernie Mayer -- 0
ID# 10985 -- 10985 -- Not a False Flag, a More Effective Strategy for Fighting Oppression: the Burgesses Respond to Jackie Font-Guzmán and Bernie Mayer -- 0
ID# 10985 -- 10985 -- Not a False Flag, a More Effective Strategy for Fighting Oppression: the Burgesses Respond to Jackie Font-Guzmán and Bernie Mayer -- 0
ID# 10985 -- 10985 -- Not a False Flag, a More Effective Strategy for Fighting Oppression: the Burgesses Respond to Jackie Font-Guzmán and Bernie Mayer -- 0
ID# 10985 -- 10985 -- Not a False Flag, a More Effective Strategy for Fighting Oppression: the Burgesses Respond to Jackie Font-Guzmán and Bernie Mayer -- 0
ID# 10985 -- 10985 -- Not a False Flag, a More Effective Strategy for Fighting Oppression: the Burgesses Respond to Jackie Font-Guzmán and Bernie Mayer -- 0
ID# 10986 -- 10986 -- Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess: Massively Parallel Peacebuilding vs. Massively Parallel Partisanship -- 0
ID# 10986 -- 10986 -- Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess: Massively Parallel Peacebuilding vs. Massively Parallel Partisanship -- 0
ID# 10987 -- 10987 -- The False Flag of Hyper-Polarization A Response to Guy and Heidi Burgess’ Critique of The Neutrality Trap -- 0
ID# 10987 -- 10987 -- The False Flag of Hyper-Polarization A Response to Guy and Heidi Burgess’ Critique of The Neutrality Trap -- 0
ID# 10987 -- 10987 -- The False Flag of Hyper-Polarization A Response to Guy and Heidi Burgess’ Critique of The Neutrality Trap -- 0
ID# 10987 -- 10987 -- The False Flag of Hyper-Polarization A Response to Guy and Heidi Burgess’ Critique of The Neutrality Trap -- 0
ID# 10987 -- 10987 -- The False Flag of Hyper-Polarization A Response to Guy and Heidi Burgess’ Critique of The Neutrality Trap -- 0
ID# 10987 -- 10987 -- The False Flag of Hyper-Polarization A Response to Guy and Heidi Burgess’ Critique of The Neutrality Trap -- 0
ID# 10987 -- 10987 -- The False Flag of Hyper-Polarization A Response to Guy and Heidi Burgess’ Critique of The Neutrality Trap -- 0
ID# 10987 -- 10987 -- The False Flag of Hyper-Polarization A Response to Guy and Heidi Burgess’ Critique of The Neutrality Trap -- 0
ID# 10988 -- 10988 -- Kristin Hansen talks about the Civic Health Project's Work on De-polarization in America -- 0
ID# 10988 -- 10988 -- Kristin Hansen talks about the Civic Health Project's Work on De-polarization in America -- 0
ID# 10988 -- 10988 -- Kristin Hansen talks about the Civic Health Project's Work on De-polarization in America -- 0
ID# 10988 -- 10988 -- Kristin Hansen talks about the Civic Health Project's Work on De-polarization in America -- 0
ID# 10989 -- 10989 -- Guy Burgess: The QED Trap -- 0
ID# 10990 -- 10990 -- Julia Roig: Where Does Civil Resistance and Social Justice Fit in MPP? -- 0
ID# 10990 -- 10990 -- Julia Roig: Where Does Civil Resistance and Social Justice Fit in MPP? -- 0
ID# 10990 -- 10990 -- Julia Roig: Where Does Civil Resistance and Social Justice Fit in MPP? -- 0
ID# 10991 -- 10991 -- Julia Roig: Rethinking 'Polarization' as the Problem -- 0
ID# 10991 -- 10991 -- Julia Roig: Rethinking 'Polarization' as the Problem -- 0
ID# 10991 -- 10991 -- Julia Roig: Rethinking 'Polarization' as the Problem -- 0
ID# 10993 -- 10993 -- A fiscal crisis awaits. Here’s a provocative idea for heading it off. -- The realistic strategy, with a proven track record, for grappling with the kind of tough public policy problems that require substantial public sacrifice.
ID# 10993 -- 10993 -- A fiscal crisis awaits. Here’s a provocative idea for heading it off. -- The realistic strategy, with a proven track record, for grappling with the kind of tough public policy problems that require substantial public sacrifice.
ID# 11007 -- 11007 -- The Supreme Court Case That Exemplifies Our Culture War Blindness -- Justice is a one-size-fits-all concept that must be applied equally to all. This essay explores the difficulties we have in living up to this principle.
ID# 11009 -- 11009 -- Monomania Is Illiberal and Stupefying -- An exploration of the causes and effects of a particularly dangerous cognitive bias, monomania, along with thoughts on what can be done to limit its effects.
ID# 11010 -- 11010 -- A Path to Institutional Pluralism -- A pluralistic democracy is one in which diversity is more than skin deep. It is a system that allows people with very different beliefs to live and work together in peace.
ID# 11013 -- 11013 -- How America Got Mean -- An argument for strengthening the social fabric by restoring moral education to its rightful prominence.
ID# 11027 -- 11027 -- The 6 Kinds of Republican Voters -- A somewhat more nuanced view of the right-leaning electorate in the United States and a step toward breaking down overly simplistic stereotypes.
ID# 11031 -- 11031 -- Greg Lukianoff on How to Build a Culture of Free Speech -- Thoughtful advice on how to cultivate both public support for freedom of speech and an ability to use those freedoms effectively.
ID# 11031 -- 11031 -- Greg Lukianoff on How to Build a Culture of Free Speech -- Thoughtful advice on how to cultivate both public support for freedom of speech and an ability to use those freedoms effectively.
ID# 11031 -- 11031 -- Greg Lukianoff on How to Build a Culture of Free Speech -- Thoughtful advice on how to cultivate both public support for freedom of speech and an ability to use those freedoms effectively.
ID# 11031 -- 11031 -- Greg Lukianoff on How to Build a Culture of Free Speech -- Thoughtful advice on how to cultivate both public support for freedom of speech and an ability to use those freedoms effectively.
ID# 11031 -- 11031 -- Greg Lukianoff on How to Build a Culture of Free Speech -- Thoughtful advice on how to cultivate both public support for freedom of speech and an ability to use those freedoms effectively.
ID# 11031 -- 11031 -- Greg Lukianoff on How to Build a Culture of Free Speech -- Thoughtful advice on how to cultivate both public support for freedom of speech and an ability to use those freedoms effectively.
ID# 11031 -- 11031 -- Greg Lukianoff on How to Build a Culture of Free Speech -- Thoughtful advice on how to cultivate both public support for freedom of speech and an ability to use those freedoms effectively.
ID# 11034 -- 11034 -- America’s Tech Giants Rush to Comply With New Curbs in Europe -- After years of complaining about the many ways in which tech companies are exploiting the public, news that the EU is taking a major step to address the problem.
ID# 11037 -- 11037 -- Why Does Everyone Feel So Insecure All the Time? -- A provocative exploration of a different kind of inequality. Unlike inequalities of wealth and income, this article focuses on the differences between the secure and the insecure.
ID# 11039 -- 11039 -- An America of Secrets -- An insightful examination of the role that governmental secrecy plays in undermining our ability to analyze problems in ways that are both both viewed as trustworthy and trusted.
ID# 11043 -- 11043 -- What is Meritocracy For? -- An article that asks an all-important (but not commonly asked) question, what are the obligations of those who hold positions in the meritocracy?
ID# 11049 -- 11049 -- Turning Down the Temperature on Extreme Claims About Extreme Weather -- A look at the complex methodological issues surrounding efforts to understand the impact of climate change, plus an argument that things are not quite as bad as commonly portrayed.
ID# 11049 -- 11049 -- Turning Down the Temperature on Extreme Claims About Extreme Weather -- A look at the complex methodological issues surrounding efforts to understand the impact of climate change, plus an argument that things are not quite as bad as commonly portrayed.
ID# 11050 -- 11050 -- Why So Many Elites Feel Like Losers -- An especially perceptive article highlighting what happens when more people feel entitled to upper level positions in the social hierarchy than there are positions available.
ID# 11055 -- 11055 -- Vivek Ramaswamy’s Truth -- An informative profile of Vivek Ramaswamy and his effort to become the new leader of the populist rebellion against what US progressives think democracy ought to be.
ID# 11059 -- 11059 -- Love Doesn’t Belong Just to the Poets -- An interesting examination of the neuropsychological complexities of the way that people think and relate to one another at the most intimate level.
ID# 11060 -- 11060 -- America’s road to healthier political discourse starts on campus -- An eloquent defense of the importance of cultivating robust political debate on campus and a look at an organization that is trying to promote this kind of debate.
ID# 11060 -- 11060 -- America’s road to healthier political discourse starts on campus -- An eloquent defense of the importance of cultivating robust political debate on campus and a look at an organization that is trying to promote this kind of debate.
ID# 11065 -- 11065 -- What Is a Minsky Moment? Definition, Causes, History, and Examples -- From economics, a useful concept – the Minsky Moment -- the point at which "things that can't go on like this, don't" (and catastrophe ensues).
ID# 11095 -- 11095 -- Can Liberalism Save Itself? -- A thoughtful addition to the larger debate over the nature of liberalism's difficulties, how to save it, and whether it should be saved.
ID# 11101 -- 11101 -- America Is Often a Nation Divided -- An informative look back at historical periods in which the US was as deeply divided as it is today. We got through those tough times and we can get through today's (if we work at it).
ID# 11106 -- 11106 -- Social Justice's Forbidden Word -- An important observation and criticism of the social justice movement that centers around its failure to recognize the importance of forgiveness.
ID# 11108 -- 11108 -- Why civility should not trump free expression: Part 10 of answers to bad arguments against free speech from Nadine Strossen and Greg Lukianoff -- For those trying to think through what limits should be placed on free speech, a link to thoughts on one part of the argument plus links to 13 articles addressing other aspects of this complex issue.
ID# 11113 -- 11113 -- What Is Integralism? -- An exploration of the two major ways in which conservatives think about the relationship between individual liberty, government action, and social morality.
ID# 11126 -- 11126 -- Small Donors Are a Big Problem -- A disappointing report on the the success of efforts to strengthen democracy by replacing big money with small donor fundraising.
ID# 11126 -- 11126 -- Small Donors Are a Big Problem -- A disappointing report on the the success of efforts to strengthen democracy by replacing big money with small donor fundraising.
ID# 11130 -- 11130 -- Terrorism -- From Our World in Data, statistics that look at the threat of terrorism from a more informed perspective.
ID# 11131 -- 11131 -- Danya Rumore: To disagree better, we need to increase our conflict competence -- In response to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox's "Disagree Better" Initiative, a quick and readable summary of what "disagree better" means in practice.
ID# 11131 -- 11131 -- Danya Rumore: To disagree better, we need to increase our conflict competence -- In response to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox's "Disagree Better" Initiative, a quick and readable summary of what "disagree better" means in practice.
ID# 11131 -- 11131 -- Danya Rumore: To disagree better, we need to increase our conflict competence -- In response to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox's "Disagree Better" Initiative, a quick and readable summary of what "disagree better" means in practice.
ID# 11132 -- 11132 -- Tolerating Intolerance: The Free Speech Paradox -- An exploration of one of the toughest challenges facing efforts to build a diverse democracy based on mutual tolerance – the unwillingness of some people to tolerate political opponents.
ID# 11132 -- 11132 -- Tolerating Intolerance: The Free Speech Paradox -- An exploration of one of the toughest challenges facing efforts to build a diverse democracy based on mutual tolerance – the unwillingness of some people to tolerate political opponents.
ID# 11132 -- 11132 -- Tolerating Intolerance: The Free Speech Paradox -- An exploration of one of the toughest challenges facing efforts to build a diverse democracy based on mutual tolerance – the unwillingness of some people to tolerate political opponents.
ID# 11132 -- 11132 -- Tolerating Intolerance: The Free Speech Paradox -- An exploration of one of the toughest challenges facing efforts to build a diverse democracy based on mutual tolerance – the unwillingness of some people to tolerate political opponents.
ID# 11143 -- 11143 -- Democrats and Republicans share core values but still distrust each other -- Good news that Democrats and Republicans are actually in agreement on many core moral values. Unfortunately, they still distrust one another.
ID# 11144 -- 11144 -- Another Ethnic Cleansing Could Be Underway — and We’re Not Paying Attention -- A reminder that efforts to prevent "ethnic cleansing" and genocidal violence require constant vigilance and an ability to act in low-profile cases that escape global attention.
ID# 11147 -- 11147 -- Superstar Cities in the Age of Zoom -- An introduction to the field of economic geography – an attempt to understand exactly why some economic localities are favored, why others are disadvantaged, and what to do about it.
ID# 11149 -- 11149 -- Can Plastic Recycling Ever Really Work? -- An example of a small, but effective effort to challenge the misleading labeling of "recyclable" plastics in ways that expand the market for true recyclables (and limit "greenwashing").
ID# 11151 -- 11151 -- Moms for Liberty: ‘We Do Not Co-Parent With the Government’ -- A story about a case in which efforts to challenge political opponents crosses the line into dishonest hatemongering.
ID# 11151 -- 11151 -- Moms for Liberty: ‘We Do Not Co-Parent With the Government’ -- A story about a case in which efforts to challenge political opponents crosses the line into dishonest hatemongering.
ID# 11153 -- 11153 -- Christine Brophy: Narcissism Behind Left-Wing Authoritarianism -- 0
ID# 11153 -- 11153 -- Christine Brophy: Narcissism Behind Left-Wing Authoritarianism -- 0
ID# 11157 -- 11157 -- MLK and the Content of Character -- On the anniversary of Martin Luther King's 1963 March on Washington, thoughtful reflections on the meaning of his "I Have a Dream" speech in the contemporary context.
ID# 11159 -- 11159 -- The Workings of the Party-State -- An attempt to map out the ways in which today's "power elite" exerts its influence over the larger society.
ID# 11165 -- 11165 -- The “Transformative” Invention of Title IX Sex Tribunals -- Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, an account of the messy origins of Title IX enforcement policies -- origins that differ substantially from our image of the way democracy is supposed to work.
ID# 11167 -- 11167 -- Marine Traffic -- A stunning online visualization tool that makes visible the vast network of global trade upon which we all depend.
ID# 11169 -- 11169 -- By Abandoning Civics, Colleges Helped Create the Culture Wars -- An argument that a big part of our hyper-polarized politics is the direct result of the failure of our educational institutions to teach the civic skills and values upon which democracy depends.
ID# 11169 -- 11169 -- By Abandoning Civics, Colleges Helped Create the Culture Wars -- An argument that a big part of our hyper-polarized politics is the direct result of the failure of our educational institutions to teach the civic skills and values upon which democracy depends.
ID# 11169 -- 11169 -- By Abandoning Civics, Colleges Helped Create the Culture Wars -- An argument that a big part of our hyper-polarized politics is the direct result of the failure of our educational institutions to teach the civic skills and values upon which democracy depends.
ID# 11173 -- 11173 -- The Climate-Change ‘Emergency’ Is Coming for You -- A skeptical account of the wisdom of many current climate change policies and a preview of emerging conflicts over those policies. Protecting the climate will require more constructive responses.
ID# 11173 -- 11173 -- The Climate-Change ‘Emergency’ Is Coming for You -- A skeptical account of the wisdom of many current climate change policies and a preview of emerging conflicts over those policies. Protecting the climate will require more constructive responses.
ID# 11174 -- 11174 -- Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That? -- A wake-up call for higher education. It is losing the support it needs to fulfill its mission. To rebuild that support, it needs to fulfill that mission much more effectively.
ID# 11177 -- 11177 -- The U.S. Is the Most Troubled Nation, Except for All the Others -- Complex social systems never function very well – they continually muddle from crisis to crisis. While we need to work harder to address each crisis, we also need to put those crises in perspective.
ID# 11181 -- 11181 -- Whistling in the Dark -- A provocative essay exploring the origins, impacts, and idiosyncrasies of "dog whistle" politics.
ID# 11183 -- 11183 -- A crisis in U.S. presidential legitimacy is looming -- An exploration of the likely possibility that the U.S. 2024 election might not produce a result that the losers view is fair and legitimate.
ID# 11183 -- 11183 -- A crisis in U.S. presidential legitimacy is looming -- An exploration of the likely possibility that the U.S. 2024 election might not produce a result that the losers view is fair and legitimate.
ID# 11185 -- 11185 -- How American Democracy Fell So Far Behind -- For United States, a country that likes to think of its democracy as exemplary, a look at countries that have found ways to fashion better democracies.
ID# 11186 -- 11186 -- Chuck Your Privilege -- A call for students at elite institutions of higher education who are concerned about unfair privilege and class inequities to be honest with themselves about the many privileges they enjoy.
ID# 11190 -- 11190 -- Republicans in Wyoming See Clearly What’s Happening -- A story about Wyoming's reaction to the nationalization of politics and political reporting and the way in which this impacts their ability to sensibly deal with local issues.
ID# 11193 -- 11193 -- Here's the Long List of Topics Republicans Want Banned From the Classroom -- Amid free speech concerns about Republican efforts to ban the teaching of certain topics, a reasonably impartial look at what, exactly, they are trying to ban.
ID# 11193 -- 11193 -- Here's the Long List of Topics Republicans Want Banned From the Classroom -- Amid free speech concerns about Republican efforts to ban the teaching of certain topics, a reasonably impartial look at what, exactly, they are trying to ban.
ID# 11194 -- 11194 -- The Coming Revolution in Climate Research -- For those who recognize the importance of "trusting the science" with respect to climate issues, welcome news that the science is about to get much better (and more reassuring).
ID# 11194 -- 11194 -- The Coming Revolution in Climate Research -- For those who recognize the importance of "trusting the science" with respect to climate issues, welcome news that the science is about to get much better (and more reassuring).
ID# 11196 -- 11196 -- D.E.I. Statements Stir Debate on College Campuses -- A look at the increasingly frequent practice of requiring job applicants in higher education to submit DEI statements. (How does this differ from requiring a progressive loyalty oath?)
ID# 11201 -- 11201 -- Why Activists Keep Telling You the World is Ending -- Reflections on our tendency to view today's big challenges in apocalyptic and existential terms (and the role that fear mongering activists play in all of this).
ID# 11201 -- 11201 -- Why Activists Keep Telling You the World is Ending -- Reflections on our tendency to view today's big challenges in apocalyptic and existential terms (and the role that fear mongering activists play in all of this).
ID# 11203 -- 11203 -- Young People in China Can’t Find Work, and Xi Jinping Has Only One Response -- A profile of the crisis arising from China's inability to put its young, educated workforce to work (and its authoritarian response).
ID# 11203 -- 11203 -- Young People in China Can’t Find Work, and Xi Jinping Has Only One Response -- A profile of the crisis arising from China's inability to put its young, educated workforce to work (and its authoritarian response).
ID# 11206 -- 11206 -- Innovation and Its Discontents -- A review and summary of an important new book examining the history of conflicts arising from technological innovation.
ID# 11206 -- 11206 -- Innovation and Its Discontents -- A review and summary of an important new book examining the history of conflicts arising from technological innovation.
ID# 11207 -- 11207 -- Why U.S. Presidents Really Go to War -- A review and summary of a new book that examines the complex forces that have led to the United States' wars -- forces that are not as rational, dispassionate, and honorable as we would like to believe.
ID# 11207 -- 11207 -- Why U.S. Presidents Really Go to War -- A review and summary of a new book that examines the complex forces that have led to the United States' wars -- forces that are not as rational, dispassionate, and honorable as we would like to believe.
ID# 11211 -- 11211 -- I Watched a Democracy Die. I Don’t Want to Do It Again. -- From Chile, a retrospective and agonizing account of what happens when democracies do, in fact, fail and authoritarians take over.
ID# 11211 -- 11211 -- I Watched a Democracy Die. I Don’t Want to Do It Again. -- From Chile, a retrospective and agonizing account of what happens when democracies do, in fact, fail and authoritarians take over.
ID# 11211 -- 11211 -- I Watched a Democracy Die. I Don’t Want to Do It Again. -- From Chile, a retrospective and agonizing account of what happens when democracies do, in fact, fail and authoritarians take over.
ID# 11213 -- 11213 -- The Misogyny Myth -- More on the argument that, in our efforts to combat discrimination against women, we have to started discriminating against men in ways that are hard to justify.
ID# 11218 -- 11218 -- Academia’s Missing Men -- Illuminating statistics documenting the remarkable progress that has been made toward racial and gender equity and the possibility that we are starting to undermine this progress with reverse discrimination.
ID# 11225 -- 11225 -- The Supreme Court Isn’t Rogue -- An article about the Supreme Court that makes an important distinction between conflicts over differing legal philosophies and attempts to subvert the rule of law.
ID# 11227 -- 11227 -- Reinvigorating Peace: A Critical Look at the UN’s New Agenda for Peace -- Boutros Boutros Ghali's 1992 "Agenda for Peace" taught us the word peacebuilding. This article looks at the United Nations' recent update of this important document.
ID# 11227 -- 11227 -- Reinvigorating Peace: A Critical Look at the UN’s New Agenda for Peace -- Boutros Boutros Ghali's 1992 "Agenda for Peace" taught us the word peacebuilding. This article looks at the United Nations' recent update of this important document.
ID# 11228 -- 11228 -- Polarization is a choice -- More insight into the dynamics underlying our hyper-polarized society and the role that our conscious actions play in this process.
ID# 11231 -- 11231 -- Good Intentions Gone Awry -- A must-read explanation of why it is so critical that we "save" democracy and the pitfalls of many popular strategies that people are using to pursue this goal.
ID# 11233 -- 11233 -- Ross Douthat’s Theories of Persuasion -- It is a lot easier to get people to change their opinions and behavior through persuasion. Force tends to lead to backlash, defiance, and intensified conflict.
ID# 11234 -- 11234 -- How not to be fooled by viral charts -- For those who don't want to be lied to with statistics, a lesson on how to protect yourself.
ID# 11234 -- 11234 -- How not to be fooled by viral charts -- For those who don't want to be lied to with statistics, a lesson on how to protect yourself.
ID# 11239 -- 11239 -- Beware the False Prophets of War -- For anyone who thinks that we understand war and can reliably predict its outcome, a review of failed predictions (and an argument for not trying to "ride the tiger").
ID# 11241 -- 11241 -- In Defense of the Human Brain -- A reassuring argument that the human brain really does differ dramatically from the artificial brains that are causing so much concern.
ID# 11249 -- 11249 -- Why Are Democrats Losing Ground Among Nonwhite Voters? 5 Theories. -- For a party that frames itself as the defender of nonwhite voters, Democrats are losing a surprising amount of support among those voters. This article asks why.
ID# 11250 -- 11250 -- Mitt Romney Has Given Us a Gift -- A look at revelations from Mitt Romney's about-to-be-published biography and the rare insight it gives us into the way in which the Senate actually works and senators actually behave.
ID# 11259 -- 11259 -- The story of Iran’s Mahsa Amini uprising told through its most iconic images -- A series of images and videos that convey the awesome power behind Iran's political uprising -- an uprising that we hope can avoid the tragic outcomes of so many other uprisings.
ID# 11278 -- 11278 -- Framing 101: Metaphors, moral systems and the politics of your brain -- From George Lakoff and Framelab, an introduction to what we all want to know about the way in which the brain processes political information.
ID# 11291 -- 11291 -- Vivek's Ten "Truths"? -- Before dismissing Vivek Ramswamy as just another rich, Presidential wannabe, consider an analysis of the deep support that exists within US society for his "10 truths."
ID# 11303 -- 11303 -- Where Does ‘Wokeness’ Come From? -- A look back at the origins of the cluster of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs that are now playing such a dominant role in so many institutions.
ID# 11310 -- 11310 -- Tucker Carlson, the American Face of Authoritarian Propaganda -- 0
ID# 11315 -- 11315 -- Christian Strangeness: A Muslim's Faith and Friendships across Deep Differences -- An essay that thoughtfully reflects on the multifaceted and complex role that religion plays in both Christian and Muslim societies.
ID# 11320 -- 11320 -- Trump’s Open Plot to Break the Federal Government -- A preview of the emerging effort to radically alter the role that the federal government plays in US society.
ID# 11320 -- 11320 -- Trump’s Open Plot to Break the Federal Government -- A preview of the emerging effort to radically alter the role that the federal government plays in US society.
ID# 11325 -- 11325 -- All the Little Caesars -- A primer on what everybody ought to know about the incendiary, divide-and-conquer politics used by established (and aspiring) authoritarians.
ID# 11325 -- 11325 -- All the Little Caesars -- A primer on what everybody ought to know about the incendiary, divide-and-conquer politics used by established (and aspiring) authoritarians.
ID# 11325 -- 11325 -- All the Little Caesars -- A primer on what everybody ought to know about the incendiary, divide-and-conquer politics used by established (and aspiring) authoritarians.
ID# 11328 -- 11328 -- Why America Has a Long-Term Labor Crisis, in Six Charts -- Demography is the one social science that really can predict the future. Six charts predicting what is going to happen to the labor force and thoughts about how that will affect us.
ID# 11332 -- 11332 -- On Marriage, an Economist Bravely States the Obvious -- For those concerned about inequality and the deep disadvantages faced by so many people, a look at one controversial, but clearly effective, way of reducing the problem.
ID# 11336 -- 11336 -- Inside the Decades-long Permit Process Holding Back 10,000 Energy Projects -- A short video examining the vast web of regulatory processes that are undermining society's ability to get anything done – including the transition to a carbon-free energy system.
ID# 11342 -- 11342 -- Anger overwhelms our thinking brain. Here’s how to bring it back online. -- A reminder about the many ways in which anger affects our thinking and undermines our ability to protect our interests, along with suggestions for overcoming those problems.
ID# 11342 -- 11342 -- Anger overwhelms our thinking brain. Here’s how to bring it back online. -- A reminder about the many ways in which anger affects our thinking and undermines our ability to protect our interests, along with suggestions for overcoming those problems.
ID# 11343 -- 11343 -- How the Supreme Court can limit Congress’s taste for self-diminishment -- An analysis of a Supreme Court case that could help force Congress to do a better job of fulfilling its Constitutional responsibilities.
ID# 11345 -- 11345 -- What Jordan Peterson Can Teach Church Leaders -- An introduction to some of the people who have built large followings among young men by trying to help them chart a path toward a positive and fulfilling role in society.
ID# 11351 -- 11351 -- How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement -- An overview a new book that explores the complex relationship between social justice elites and the people who have truly been treated unjustly by society.
ID# 11351 -- 11351 -- How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement -- An overview a new book that explores the complex relationship between social justice elites and the people who have truly been treated unjustly by society.
ID# 11354 -- 11354 -- Does Your Worth Depend On Your Immutable Characteristics? -- An updated argument for judging people on their actions and content of their character, rather than traits over which they have no control.
ID# 11355 -- 11355 -- Take A Position, Not A Side -- An plea to abandon us-vs-them thinking and focus on debating the relative merits of competing positions.
ID# 11356 -- 11356 -- Tyranny of the Minority -- A review and critique of "Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point" -- yet another contribution to efforts to help us understand democracy's difficulties.
ID# 11357 -- 11357 -- Radical Moderation -- An overview of an important new book, "Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals" that challenges the widespread disdain for compromise that one now finds on both the left and the right.
ID# 11357 -- 11357 -- Radical Moderation -- An overview of an important new book, "Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals" that challenges the widespread disdain for compromise that one now finds on both the left and the right.
ID# 11366 -- 11366 -- The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other -- A welcome challenge to the dangerous but increasingly popular notion that, no matter what we do, we can't understand one another (and shouldn't bother trying).
ID# 11366 -- 11366 -- The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other -- A welcome challenge to the dangerous but increasingly popular notion that, no matter what we do, we can't understand one another (and shouldn't bother trying).
ID# 11368 -- 11368 -- ‘No Guardrails’ Foretold Today’s Breakdown 30 Years Ago -- A story about the origins of the concept of political "guardrails" and the man who the anticipated their deterioration and the problems that that would cause.
ID# 11375 -- 11375 -- The Gaping Hole in the Center of the Electorate -- Almost as many people (49%) identify as political independents as identify as Democrats and Republicans combined. Yet, somehow, the system can't field candidates who represent this moderate center.
ID# 11376 -- 11376 -- How Ibram X. Kendi Broke Boston University -- An informative, critical, and doubtless controversial examination of the way in which Kendi's vision of antiracism has transformed Boston University (along with many other institutions).
ID# 11382 -- 11382 -- Quillette Cetera Episode 20: Care Feminism vs Career Feminism -- An article that draws an important distinction between two principal feminist visions – one focused on care-giving roles and a second focused on careers.
ID# 11384 -- 11384 -- Moderates could unite amid House speaker chaos. Why don’t they? -- In the context of the fight over who should be Speaker of the US House of Representatives, an examination of why the hyper-polarized political divide has become so impenetrable.
ID# 11385 -- 11385 -- The rebirth of local news depends on all of us -- Promising suggestions for building the kind of vigorous and trustworthy local news system that is an essential component of successful democracies.
ID# 11385 -- 11385 -- The rebirth of local news depends on all of us -- Promising suggestions for building the kind of vigorous and trustworthy local news system that is an essential component of successful democracies.
ID# 11389 -- 11389 -- The Zero Sum Idea Trap -- An interesting look at how our economy has evolved from a positive- to a zero-sum orientation in recent decades and how that affects our politics.
ID# 11394 -- 11394 -- Executive Order on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce -- 0
ID# 11402 -- 11402 -- Not since the Holocaust have this many Jews been killed in a single day -- Israeli rabbi, author and blogger Daniel Gordis reflects on the enormity of the attacks, concluding that Israel will win, but it will never be the same. Despite the fact that the government was "nowhere to be found," the people and the army were raising a defense on their own.
ID# 11404 -- 11404 -- Robin DiAngelo Thinks Society Will Never Improve -- A challenge to the depressing assertion that society is horrible and racist and can never be improved.
ID# 11412 -- 11412 -- U.S. Dysfunction Clouds Economic Diplomacy Efforts -- 0
ID# 11413 -- 11413 -- What We Can Do to Make American Politics Less Dysfunctional -- 0
ID# 11419 -- 11419 -- Thomas Sowell on the Trouble With ‘Social Justice’ -- We often take the pursuit of social justice as a desirable end in and of itself, without ever really being clear about what, exactly, it means. This article tries to force us to think more critically about the term.
ID# 11466 -- 11466 -- The savage nihilism of free palestine -- A thought-provoking essay exploring the role of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism in Arab and Muslim culture and the relationship between these beliefs and European revolutionary thought.
ID# 11485 -- 11485 -- War in Israel: Michael Oren Explains How ‘Evil’ Infiltrated the Country -- An especially enlightening interview with former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, recorded on October 7.
ID# 11491 -- 11491 -- There Are No Rules -- An examination of the rules-based international order that was instituted following World War II to reduce the risk of that that war's horrors would be repeated. And, an exploration of the ways in which that, always tenuous, order is now eroding rapidly.
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ID# 11751 -- 11751 -- Carrie Menkel-Meadow: Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Protest -- Who has the right to speak how and when? The Stanford Law School controversy has lessons for all of us.
ID# 11751 -- 11751 -- Carrie Menkel-Meadow: Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Protest -- Who has the right to speak how and when? The Stanford Law School controversy has lessons for all of us.
ID# 11752 -- 11752 -- Our Problem Isn't "Them" -- We need to learn more about the other side--not about how bad they are, but why they believe what they believe, why they respond to us the way they do, and why they advocate for the things we think are so awful.
ID# 11752 -- 11752 -- Our Problem Isn't "Them" -- We need to learn more about the other side--not about how bad they are, but why they believe what they believe, why they respond to us the way they do, and why they advocate for the things we think are so awful.
ID# 11753 -- 11753 -- Polarization's Toll on US Credibility, Progressives' Reverse CBT, and Other Colleague and Context Links -- Our readers share their thoughts: how progressive attitudes are deeply hurting progressives themselves, and how polarization is damaging US credibility abroad. Plus normal colleague and context posts.
ID# 11754 -- 11754 -- Sharing Ideas From Around the Globe on Ways to Strengthen Democracy - A BI/IGN Discussion -- A summary of ideas generated by the joint BI/IGN discussion on ways to strengthen democracy using negotiation, conflict resolution, and related processes.
ID# 11754 -- 11754 -- Sharing Ideas From Around the Globe on Ways to Strengthen Democracy - A BI/IGN Discussion -- A summary of ideas generated by the joint BI/IGN discussion on ways to strengthen democracy using negotiation, conflict resolution, and related processes.
ID# 11755 -- 11755 -- ChatGPT — Can It "Listen" Better Than We Can? -- Can ChatGPT "listen to" and understand the other side better than we can? And if so, is that useful for de-polarization?
ID# 11755 -- 11755 -- ChatGPT — Can It "Listen" Better Than We Can? -- Can ChatGPT "listen to" and understand the other side better than we can? And if so, is that useful for de-polarization?
ID# 11758 -- 11758 -- D.G. Mawn Talks About Community Mediation and NAFCM -- A short summary of a longer interview highlighting the important role that community mediation can play in helping societies handle local conflicts more constructively.
ID# 11758 -- 11758 -- D.G. Mawn Talks About Community Mediation and NAFCM -- A short summary of a longer interview highlighting the important role that community mediation can play in helping societies handle local conflicts more constructively.
ID# 11760 -- 11760 -- John Lande: The Importance of Really Listening – For Ourselves, Others, and Democracy -- Some of our biggest errors are that we generally assume that we correctly understand the world and that being wrong is bad. Rather, we often are wrong--and that is good!
ID# 11760 -- 11760 -- John Lande: The Importance of Really Listening – For Ourselves, Others, and Democracy -- Some of our biggest errors are that we generally assume that we correctly understand the world and that being wrong is bad. Rather, we often are wrong--and that is good!
ID# 11761 -- 11761 -- An Award for NAFCM + Conflict Mapping and Other Tools for Understanding Complex Problem -- Conflict mapping is a tool to help understand what, besides "the other guys" are driving a conflict or social problem, and hence what might be done to fix it.
ID# 11761 -- 11761 -- An Award for NAFCM + Conflict Mapping and Other Tools for Understanding Complex Problem -- Conflict mapping is a tool to help understand what, besides "the other guys" are driving a conflict or social problem, and hence what might be done to fix it.
ID# 11763 -- 11763 -- Paul Monteiro, Former Director of the Community Relations Service, Talking About How CRS Works its Magic -- A few of the many important and interesting things Community Relations Service Paul Monteiro shared about the way CRS operates, what makes it successful, and most importantly, how it needs help from locals.
ID# 11763 -- 11763 -- Paul Monteiro, Former Director of the Community Relations Service, Talking About How CRS Works its Magic -- A few of the many important and interesting things Community Relations Service Paul Monteiro shared about the way CRS operates, what makes it successful, and most importantly, how it needs help from locals.
ID# 11763 -- 11763 -- Paul Monteiro, Former Director of the Community Relations Service, Talking About How CRS Works its Magic -- A few of the many important and interesting things Community Relations Service Paul Monteiro shared about the way CRS operates, what makes it successful, and most importantly, how it needs help from locals.
ID# 11764 -- 11764 -- Escalation is the Most Dangerous Force on the Planet. But We Continue to Drive It -- Driven by many interacting feedback loops, escalation can get out of control quickly--leading to violence or even worse.
ID# 11764 -- 11764 -- Escalation is the Most Dangerous Force on the Planet. But We Continue to Drive It -- Driven by many interacting feedback loops, escalation can get out of control quickly--leading to violence or even worse.
ID# 11764 -- 11764 -- Escalation is the Most Dangerous Force on the Planet. But We Continue to Drive It -- Driven by many interacting feedback loops, escalation can get out of control quickly--leading to violence or even worse.
ID# 11766 -- 11766 -- Learning More about How the TRUST Network Does Massively Parallel Peacebuilding -- Democracy is a complex adaptive system. This means we need a complex, adaptive response to the many threats that it faces. The TRUST Network is one.
ID# 11766 -- 11766 -- Learning More about How the TRUST Network Does Massively Parallel Peacebuilding -- Democracy is a complex adaptive system. This means we need a complex, adaptive response to the many threats that it faces. The TRUST Network is one.
ID# 11766 -- 11766 -- Learning More about How the TRUST Network Does Massively Parallel Peacebuilding -- Democracy is a complex adaptive system. This means we need a complex, adaptive response to the many threats that it faces. The TRUST Network is one.
ID# 11766 -- 11766 -- Learning More about How the TRUST Network Does Massively Parallel Peacebuilding -- Democracy is a complex adaptive system. This means we need a complex, adaptive response to the many threats that it faces. The TRUST Network is one.
ID# 11767 -- 11767 -- Divided Community Project: Speaking Out to Strengthen the Guardrails of Democracy -- One of the most important ways in which we can all act to strengthen our democracy is to speak out when others are acting in ways that threaten it.
ID# 11767 -- 11767 -- Divided Community Project: Speaking Out to Strengthen the Guardrails of Democracy -- One of the most important ways in which we can all act to strengthen our democracy is to speak out when others are acting in ways that threaten it.
ID# 11769 -- 11769 -- Reversing or Better Yet, Avoiding, Destructive Escalation -- A short, readable summary (with lots of links) to what we collectively know about strategies for controlling destructive escalation. (Part I)
ID# 11769 -- 11769 -- Reversing or Better Yet, Avoiding, Destructive Escalation -- A short, readable summary (with lots of links) to what we collectively know about strategies for controlling destructive escalation. (Part I)
ID# 11770 -- 11770 -- Palma Strand: A Path Out of Polarization: The Strengthening Democracy Challenge and the Civity Storytelling Intervention -- Civity is all about forming relationships across difference. It's the "secret sauce" of successful communities and organizations. And better yet, everyone can do it!
ID# 11770 -- 11770 -- Palma Strand: A Path Out of Polarization: The Strengthening Democracy Challenge and the Civity Storytelling Intervention -- Civity is all about forming relationships across difference. It's the "secret sauce" of successful communities and organizations. And better yet, everyone can do it!
ID# 11770 -- 11770 -- Palma Strand: A Path Out of Polarization: The Strengthening Democracy Challenge and the Civity Storytelling Intervention -- Civity is all about forming relationships across difference. It's the "secret sauce" of successful communities and organizations. And better yet, everyone can do it!
ID# 11771 -- 11771 -- More Ways to Turn Down the Heat -- The second part of our short, readable summary (with lots of links) to what we collectively know about strategies for controlling destructive escalation.
ID# 11771 -- 11771 -- More Ways to Turn Down the Heat -- The second part of our short, readable summary (with lots of links) to what we collectively know about strategies for controlling destructive escalation.
ID# 11773 -- 11773 -- Social Justice Advocacy, Bridge-Building and Philanthropy: How Do These Intersect? -- What role should philanthropy play in the effort to fix democracy? Can they help? How? Or should they bow out, acknowledging that they are making the problem worse?
ID# 11773 -- 11773 -- Social Justice Advocacy, Bridge-Building and Philanthropy: How Do These Intersect? -- What role should philanthropy play in the effort to fix democracy? Can they help? How? Or should they bow out, acknowledging that they are making the problem worse?
ID# 11773 -- 11773 -- Social Justice Advocacy, Bridge-Building and Philanthropy: How Do These Intersect? -- What role should philanthropy play in the effort to fix democracy? Can they help? How? Or should they bow out, acknowledging that they are making the problem worse?
ID# 11773 -- 11773 -- Social Justice Advocacy, Bridge-Building and Philanthropy: How Do These Intersect? -- What role should philanthropy play in the effort to fix democracy? Can they help? How? Or should they bow out, acknowledging that they are making the problem worse?
ID# 11774 -- 11774 -- Rachel Kleinfeld and Shamil Idriss on Polarization, Philanthropic Plurality, Social Justice, and Democracy -- Those seeking to improve democracy should hold themselves accountable for advancing both peace and justice through collaborative action to meet common goals.
ID# 11774 -- 11774 -- Rachel Kleinfeld and Shamil Idriss on Polarization, Philanthropic Plurality, Social Justice, and Democracy -- Those seeking to improve democracy should hold themselves accountable for advancing both peace and justice through collaborative action to meet common goals.
ID# 11774 -- 11774 -- Rachel Kleinfeld and Shamil Idriss on Polarization, Philanthropic Plurality, Social Justice, and Democracy -- Those seeking to improve democracy should hold themselves accountable for advancing both peace and justice through collaborative action to meet common goals.
ID# 11776 -- 11776 -- A Remarkable Effort to Do Trauma-Informed Peacebuilding Training in Ukraine Amidst Ongoing Trauma -- A description of a longer "practitioner reflection" about trauma-informed peacebuilding training in Ukraine, and how that reflects on peacebuilding challenges in less challenged places as well.
ID# 11776 -- 11776 -- A Remarkable Effort to Do Trauma-Informed Peacebuilding Training in Ukraine Amidst Ongoing Trauma -- A description of a longer "practitioner reflection" about trauma-informed peacebuilding training in Ukraine, and how that reflects on peacebuilding challenges in less challenged places as well.
ID# 11777 -- 11777 -- The Key to Saving Democracy: Reducing Polarization? Promoting Justice? It Takes More Than That! -- There's no one answer to "saving democracy." We need to pursue many different things all at the same time.
ID# 11777 -- 11777 -- The Key to Saving Democracy: Reducing Polarization? Promoting Justice? It Takes More Than That! -- There's no one answer to "saving democracy." We need to pursue many different things all at the same time.
ID# 11777 -- 11777 -- The Key to Saving Democracy: Reducing Polarization? Promoting Justice? It Takes More Than That! -- There's no one answer to "saving democracy." We need to pursue many different things all at the same time.
ID# 11778 -- 11778 -- Bridging the Theory/Action Gap: One Key to Improving the Effectiveness of Efforts to Strengthen Democracy -- If democracy scholars and democracy actors knew more about each others activities, they could both do more to strengthen democracy.
ID# 11778 -- 11778 -- Bridging the Theory/Action Gap: One Key to Improving the Effectiveness of Efforts to Strengthen Democracy -- If democracy scholars and democracy actors knew more about each others activities, they could both do more to strengthen democracy.
ID# 11780 -- 11780 -- 7 More Ways to Turn Down the Heat -- Figuring out how to avoid destructive escalation, when possible, and reversing it once it has started, is of the highest importance. The good news, though, is that there are many ways to do that.
ID# 11780 -- 11780 -- 7 More Ways to Turn Down the Heat -- Figuring out how to avoid destructive escalation, when possible, and reversing it once it has started, is of the highest importance. The good news, though, is that there are many ways to do that.
ID# 11781 -- 11781 -- Contradictory Thoughts About Dialogue -- Dialogue can change attitudes, but those changes tend to be fleeting unless a great deal of thought and care goes into both the process and the aftermath. Designing for scale up is key.
ID# 11781 -- 11781 -- Contradictory Thoughts About Dialogue -- Dialogue can change attitudes, but those changes tend to be fleeting unless a great deal of thought and care goes into both the process and the aftermath. Designing for scale up is key.
ID# 11781 -- 11781 -- Contradictory Thoughts About Dialogue -- Dialogue can change attitudes, but those changes tend to be fleeting unless a great deal of thought and care goes into both the process and the aftermath. Designing for scale up is key.
ID# 11781 -- 11781 -- Contradictory Thoughts About Dialogue -- Dialogue can change attitudes, but those changes tend to be fleeting unless a great deal of thought and care goes into both the process and the aftermath. Designing for scale up is key.
ID# 11781 -- 11781 -- Contradictory Thoughts About Dialogue -- Dialogue can change attitudes, but those changes tend to be fleeting unless a great deal of thought and care goes into both the process and the aftermath. Designing for scale up is key.
ID# 11781 -- 11781 -- Contradictory Thoughts About Dialogue -- Dialogue can change attitudes, but those changes tend to be fleeting unless a great deal of thought and care goes into both the process and the aftermath. Designing for scale up is key.
ID# 11783 -- 11783 -- Ted Wetzel's Disagreement Fitness -- Democracy only works if people understand how to work through disagreements constructively. "Disagreement Fitness" is a way to strengthen such skills.
ID# 11783 -- 11783 -- Ted Wetzel's Disagreement Fitness -- Democracy only works if people understand how to work through disagreements constructively. "Disagreement Fitness" is a way to strengthen such skills.
ID# 11783 -- 11783 -- Ted Wetzel's Disagreement Fitness -- Democracy only works if people understand how to work through disagreements constructively. "Disagreement Fitness" is a way to strengthen such skills.
ID# 11783 -- 11783 -- Ted Wetzel's Disagreement Fitness -- Democracy only works if people understand how to work through disagreements constructively. "Disagreement Fitness" is a way to strengthen such skills.
ID# 11784 -- 11784 -- Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project: Modern Updates from Lum, Burgess, and Froehlich -- New civil rights mediator interviews provide a fascinating then-and-now comparison with earlier interviews conducted in 1999-2001. So much has changed--AND--so much has stayed the same!
ID# 11784 -- 11784 -- Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project: Modern Updates from Lum, Burgess, and Froehlich -- New civil rights mediator interviews provide a fascinating then-and-now comparison with earlier interviews conducted in 1999-2001. So much has changed--AND--so much has stayed the same!
ID# 11786 -- 11786 -- Harry Boyte and Marie-Louise Ström: Constructive Nonviolence -- Constructive nonviolence can be a profound resource for addressing injustice, repairing torn relationships, and creating healthy civic life. And it is something we all can do, everyday.
ID# 11786 -- 11786 -- Harry Boyte and Marie-Louise Ström: Constructive Nonviolence -- Constructive nonviolence can be a profound resource for addressing injustice, repairing torn relationships, and creating healthy civic life. And it is something we all can do, everyday.
ID# 11786 -- 11786 -- Harry Boyte and Marie-Louise Ström: Constructive Nonviolence -- Constructive nonviolence can be a profound resource for addressing injustice, repairing torn relationships, and creating healthy civic life. And it is something we all can do, everyday.
ID# 11787 -- 11787 -- Jay Rothman and Daniela Cohen on the Aria Group School Intervention in Yellow Springs, Ohio -- Highly polarized conflicts are typically systems problems, and they need system-based solutions to be successfully addressed. Here's an example where that was done very well.
ID# 11787 -- 11787 -- Jay Rothman and Daniela Cohen on the Aria Group School Intervention in Yellow Springs, Ohio -- Highly polarized conflicts are typically systems problems, and they need system-based solutions to be successfully addressed. Here's an example where that was done very well.
ID# 11787 -- 11787 -- Jay Rothman and Daniela Cohen on the Aria Group School Intervention in Yellow Springs, Ohio -- Highly polarized conflicts are typically systems problems, and they need system-based solutions to be successfully addressed. Here's an example where that was done very well.
ID# 11789 -- 11789 -- Constructively Navigating the World of Media Bias -- A look at the forces, including our own cognitive preferences, that produce a biased information environment and thoughts about what to do about it.
ID# 11789 -- 11789 -- Constructively Navigating the World of Media Bias -- A look at the forces, including our own cognitive preferences, that produce a biased information environment and thoughts about what to do about it.
ID# 11791 -- 11791 -- Anne Leslie: Know Thyself -- Reflections on building a career that makes a positive difference despite the daunting complexities and uncertainties of the modern world.
ID# 11791 -- 11791 -- Anne Leslie: Know Thyself -- Reflections on building a career that makes a positive difference despite the daunting complexities and uncertainties of the modern world.
ID# 11791 -- 11791 -- Anne Leslie: Know Thyself -- Reflections on building a career that makes a positive difference despite the daunting complexities and uncertainties of the modern world.
ID# 11793 -- 11793 -- Talking with and Listening to People on the Other Side -- Most of us have unrealistic images of "the other side." If we talk with, and most importantly really listen to, some of those people, we will usually find out they are not nearly as different from us as we think.
ID# 11793 -- 11793 -- Talking with and Listening to People on the Other Side -- Most of us have unrealistic images of "the other side." If we talk with, and most importantly really listen to, some of those people, we will usually find out they are not nearly as different from us as we think.
ID# 11794 -- 11794 -- More on Constructive Conflict Communication -- Empathic (active) listening and I-message are two very powerful communication strategies that work at the societal as well as interpersonal levels.
ID# 11794 -- 11794 -- More on Constructive Conflict Communication -- Empathic (active) listening and I-message are two very powerful communication strategies that work at the societal as well as interpersonal levels.
ID# 11796 -- 11796 -- Zach Elwood on the Belief that "Polarization is not the Problem" -- Polarization is hurting both sides, and both sides should be concerned about reducing it if they want to achieve any of the high-priority goals.
ID# 11796 -- 11796 -- Zach Elwood on the Belief that "Polarization is not the Problem" -- Polarization is hurting both sides, and both sides should be concerned about reducing it if they want to achieve any of the high-priority goals.
ID# 11796 -- 11796 -- Zach Elwood on the Belief that "Polarization is not the Problem" -- Polarization is hurting both sides, and both sides should be concerned about reducing it if they want to achieve any of the high-priority goals.
ID# 11797 -- 11797 -- Daniel Stid: Four Ways To Reframe Democracy in America -- How loneliness and isolation are contributing to our political malaise--and four ideas for changing that.
ID# 11797 -- 11797 -- Daniel Stid: Four Ways To Reframe Democracy in America -- How loneliness and isolation are contributing to our political malaise--and four ideas for changing that.
ID# 11799 -- 11799 -- Jay Rothman on Large Scale Interventions -- In this interview, Jay Rothman continues to reflect on strategies for scaling up small group processes in ways that enable whole communities to develop "both-and" solutions the common problems.
ID# 11799 -- 11799 -- Jay Rothman on Large Scale Interventions -- In this interview, Jay Rothman continues to reflect on strategies for scaling up small group processes in ways that enable whole communities to develop "both-and" solutions the common problems.
ID# 11799 -- 11799 -- Jay Rothman on Large Scale Interventions -- In this interview, Jay Rothman continues to reflect on strategies for scaling up small group processes in ways that enable whole communities to develop "both-and" solutions the common problems.
ID# 11799 -- 11799 -- Jay Rothman on Large Scale Interventions -- In this interview, Jay Rothman continues to reflect on strategies for scaling up small group processes in ways that enable whole communities to develop "both-and" solutions the common problems.
ID# 11799 -- 11799 -- Jay Rothman on Large Scale Interventions -- In this interview, Jay Rothman continues to reflect on strategies for scaling up small group processes in ways that enable whole communities to develop "both-and" solutions the common problems.
ID# 11806 -- 11806 -- Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project: Modern Updates from Lum, Burgess, and Froehlich -- New civil rights mediator interviews provide a fascinating then-and-now comparison with earlier interviews conducted in 1999-2001. So much has changed--AND--so much has stayed the same!
ID# 11827 -- 11827 -- Fact, Value, Lie, or Uncertainty? How Do We Tell? -- Sorting out "real facts" from "fake facts" gets more difficult all the time. But there are ways to do it. And it matters. Because facts can "bite you," even if you don't believe they are true.
ID# 11832 -- 11832 -- Katie Hyten Explains how Essential Partners is Taking Dialogue to Scale -- Essential Partners has figured out both how to scale dialogue to the community level (if not beyond) and to make the relationship improvements dialogue engenders sustainable over the long term.
ID# 11832 -- 11832 -- Katie Hyten Explains how Essential Partners is Taking Dialogue to Scale -- Essential Partners has figured out both how to scale dialogue to the community level (if not beyond) and to make the relationship improvements dialogue engenders sustainable over the long term.
ID# 11832 -- 11832 -- Katie Hyten Explains how Essential Partners is Taking Dialogue to Scale -- Essential Partners has figured out both how to scale dialogue to the community level (if not beyond) and to make the relationship improvements dialogue engenders sustainable over the long term.
ID# 11835 -- 11835 -- Daniel Stid Talks about Ways to Strengthen Democracy by Replacing Polarization with Pluralism -- Polarization is afflicting both leaders and followers, and the feedback between the two makes the problem worse. Key to fighting that is reinvigorating the value of political pluralism and openness to divergent views of problems and solutions, starting first at the local and state levels.
ID# 11861 -- 11861 -- A Further Discussion of Dialogue -- Dialogue has no fixed goal or predetermined agenda. The emphasis is not on resolving disputes, but rather on improving the way in which people with significant differences relate to each other.
ID# 11861 -- 11861 -- A Further Discussion of Dialogue -- Dialogue has no fixed goal or predetermined agenda. The emphasis is not on resolving disputes, but rather on improving the way in which people with significant differences relate to each other.
ID# 11862 -- 11862 -- Pro-Democracy Efforts: the Tension between Power-Over or Power-With Approaches -- Pro-democracy efforts have little consensus on what democracy is, or how it should be "saved." Our failure to reconcile these competing views is a big part of the reason why democracy is in so much trouble.
ID# 11862 -- 11862 -- Pro-Democracy Efforts: the Tension between Power-Over or Power-With Approaches -- Pro-democracy efforts have little consensus on what democracy is, or how it should be "saved." Our failure to reconcile these competing views is a big part of the reason why democracy is in so much trouble.
ID# 11862 -- 11862 -- Pro-Democracy Efforts: the Tension between Power-Over or Power-With Approaches -- Pro-democracy efforts have little consensus on what democracy is, or how it should be "saved." Our failure to reconcile these competing views is a big part of the reason why democracy is in so much trouble.
ID# 11862 -- 11862 -- Pro-Democracy Efforts: the Tension between Power-Over or Power-With Approaches -- Pro-democracy efforts have little consensus on what democracy is, or how it should be "saved." Our failure to reconcile these competing views is a big part of the reason why democracy is in so much trouble.
ID# 11863 -- 11863 -- Does the Power-With Approach Include Justice? Comments on Our Power-Over/Power-With Essay -- Power-with and power-over whom, how, and for what purpose are all important factors to consider when making strategic choices.
ID# 11863 -- 11863 -- Does the Power-With Approach Include Justice? Comments on Our Power-Over/Power-With Essay -- Power-with and power-over whom, how, and for what purpose are all important factors to consider when making strategic choices.
ID# 11863 -- 11863 -- Does the Power-With Approach Include Justice? Comments on Our Power-Over/Power-With Essay -- Power-with and power-over whom, how, and for what purpose are all important factors to consider when making strategic choices.
ID# 11865 -- 11865 -- Fact, Value, Lie, or Uncertainty? How Do We Tell? -- Sorting out "real facts" from "fake facts" gets more difficult all the time. But there are ways to do it. And it matters. Because facts can "bite you," even if you don't believe they are true.
ID# 11865 -- 11865 -- Fact, Value, Lie, or Uncertainty? How Do We Tell? -- Sorting out "real facts" from "fake facts" gets more difficult all the time. But there are ways to do it. And it matters. Because facts can "bite you," even if you don't believe they are true.
ID# 11866 -- 11866 -- Daniel Stid: Citizens’ Assemblies: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Again) -- Citizens' assemblies are an ancient form of governance, used by the Athenians in the 5th Century B.C., whose time has come again. Daniel Stid reports on their increasing use and benefits around the world, including in the U.S.
ID# 11866 -- 11866 -- Daniel Stid: Citizens’ Assemblies: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Again) -- Citizens' assemblies are an ancient form of governance, used by the Athenians in the 5th Century B.C., whose time has come again. Daniel Stid reports on their increasing use and benefits around the world, including in the U.S.
ID# 11868 -- 11868 -- Bad-Faith Actors and the Red/Blue/Gold Divide -- Successfully dealing with intractable conflict requires distinguishing between good-faith and bad-faith actors (and between intentional and reluctant bad-faith actors) and then dealing with each group in a different way.
ID# 11868 -- 11868 -- Bad-Faith Actors and the Red/Blue/Gold Divide -- Successfully dealing with intractable conflict requires distinguishing between good-faith and bad-faith actors (and between intentional and reluctant bad-faith actors) and then dealing with each group in a different way.
ID# 11870 -- 11870 -- Katie Hyten Explains how Essential Partners is Taking Dialogue to Scale -- Essential Partners has figured out both how to scale dialogue to the community level (if not beyond) and to make the relationship improvements dialogue engenders sustainable over the long term.
ID# 11870 -- 11870 -- Katie Hyten Explains how Essential Partners is Taking Dialogue to Scale -- Essential Partners has figured out both how to scale dialogue to the community level (if not beyond) and to make the relationship improvements dialogue engenders sustainable over the long term.
ID# 11870 -- 11870 -- Katie Hyten Explains how Essential Partners is Taking Dialogue to Scale -- Essential Partners has figured out both how to scale dialogue to the community level (if not beyond) and to make the relationship improvements dialogue engenders sustainable over the long term.
ID# 11870 -- 11870 -- Katie Hyten Explains how Essential Partners is Taking Dialogue to Scale -- Essential Partners has figured out both how to scale dialogue to the community level (if not beyond) and to make the relationship improvements dialogue engenders sustainable over the long term.
ID# 11870 -- 11870 -- Katie Hyten Explains how Essential Partners is Taking Dialogue to Scale -- Essential Partners has figured out both how to scale dialogue to the community level (if not beyond) and to make the relationship improvements dialogue engenders sustainable over the long term.
ID# 11871 -- 11871 -- Israel, Hamas, Evil, and the Bad-faith Actor Problem -- From a conflict resolution and peacebuilding perspective, reflections on Hamas' horrific attack on Israel and the role that our field has played and could play in shaping this tragedy.
ID# 11871 -- 11871 -- Israel, Hamas, Evil, and the Bad-faith Actor Problem -- From a conflict resolution and peacebuilding perspective, reflections on Hamas' horrific attack on Israel and the role that our field has played and could play in shaping this tragedy.
ID# 11871 -- 11871 -- Israel, Hamas, Evil, and the Bad-faith Actor Problem -- From a conflict resolution and peacebuilding perspective, reflections on Hamas' horrific attack on Israel and the role that our field has played and could play in shaping this tragedy.
ID# 11872 -- 11872 -- Special Edition of Colleague and Context Posts: The 2023 Israel-Hamas War -- This Special Edition of the Beyond Intractability in Colleague and Context Newsletter offers links to articles that we have found to be especially useful as we have struggled to understand the far-reaching implications of Hamas' brutal attack on Israel and the extremely dangerous and tragic war that that attack has unleashed.
ID# 11872 -- 11872 -- Special Edition of Colleague and Context Posts: The 2023 Israel-Hamas War -- This Special Edition of the Beyond Intractability in Colleague and Context Newsletter offers links to articles that we have found to be especially useful as we have struggled to understand the far-reaching implications of Hamas' brutal attack on Israel and the extremely dangerous and tragic war that that attack has unleashed.
ID# 11872 -- 11872 -- Special Edition of Colleague and Context Posts: The 2023 Israel-Hamas War -- This Special Edition of the Beyond Intractability in Colleague and Context Newsletter offers links to articles that we have found to be especially useful as we have struggled to understand the far-reaching implications of Hamas' brutal attack on Israel and the extremely dangerous and tragic war that that attack has unleashed.
ID# 11873 -- 11873 -- Daniel Stid Talks about Ways to Strengthen Democracy by Replacing Polarization with Pluralism -- Polarization is afflicting both leaders and followers, and the feedback between the two makes the problem worse. Key to fighting that is reinvigorating the value of political pluralism and openness to divergent views of problems and solutions, starting first at the local and state levels.
ID# 11873 -- 11873 -- Daniel Stid Talks about Ways to Strengthen Democracy by Replacing Polarization with Pluralism -- Polarization is afflicting both leaders and followers, and the feedback between the two makes the problem worse. Key to fighting that is reinvigorating the value of political pluralism and openness to divergent views of problems and solutions, starting first at the local and state levels.
ID# 11874 -- 11874 -- Julia Chaitin, Israeli Peacebuilder, on the Israeli-Gazan War -- Chilling testimony from an Israeli peace activist living near the Gaza/Israeli border, and her thoughts about ways forward.
ID# 11874 -- 11874 -- Julia Chaitin, Israeli Peacebuilder, on the Israeli-Gazan War -- Chilling testimony from an Israeli peace activist living near the Gaza/Israeli border, and her thoughts about ways forward.
ID# 11874 -- 11874 -- Julia Chaitin, Israeli Peacebuilder, on the Israeli-Gazan War -- Chilling testimony from an Israeli peace activist living near the Gaza/Israeli border, and her thoughts about ways forward.
ID# 11876 -- 11876 -- Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty -- Unavoidable risks and uncertainties make wise decision-making especially difficult. These difficulties are compounded by cognitive traps that lead us to believe that we have certainty when we don't. A better approach is to remain flexible and monitor changing conditions so that we can adapt quickly.
ID# 11876 -- 11876 -- Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty -- Unavoidable risks and uncertainties make wise decision-making especially difficult. These difficulties are compounded by cognitive traps that lead us to believe that we have certainty when we don't. A better approach is to remain flexible and monitor changing conditions so that we can adapt quickly.
ID# 11876 -- 11876 -- Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty -- Unavoidable risks and uncertainties make wise decision-making especially difficult. These difficulties are compounded by cognitive traps that lead us to believe that we have certainty when we don't. A better approach is to remain flexible and monitor changing conditions so that we can adapt quickly.
ID# 11877 -- 11877 -- Colleagues' Thoughts about the Israel/Hamas War - Part 1 -- A compilation of the first round of comments that we have received about our Israel/Hamas war discussion posts. There is much to think and debate about here!
ID# 11877 -- 11877 -- Colleagues' Thoughts about the Israel/Hamas War - Part 1 -- A compilation of the first round of comments that we have received about our Israel/Hamas war discussion posts. There is much to think and debate about here!
ID# 11877 -- 11877 -- Colleagues' Thoughts about the Israel/Hamas War - Part 1 -- A compilation of the first round of comments that we have received about our Israel/Hamas war discussion posts. There is much to think and debate about here!
ID# 11880 -- 11880 -- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of November 5, 2023 -- This week's links to news articles and organizations that are, in various ways, working to help us understand and more constructively handle intractable conflict.
ID# 11881 -- 11881 -- The Hyper-Polarization Discussion: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going -- A review of what we've focused on and what we've learned since starting this newsletter 20 months ago, and a discussion of where we plan to go in the months ahead.
ID# 11882 -- 11882 -- More On the Israel/Hamas War from Contributors -- New comments from Israeli peacebuilder Julia Chaitin and U.S. psychotherapist Madeline Taylor about the Israel/Hamas war.
ID# 11882 -- 11882 -- More On the Israel/Hamas War from Contributors -- New comments from Israeli peacebuilder Julia Chaitin and U.S. psychotherapist Madeline Taylor about the Israel/Hamas war.
ID# 11882 -- 11882 -- More On the Israel/Hamas War from Contributors -- New comments from Israeli peacebuilder Julia Chaitin and U.S. psychotherapist Madeline Taylor about the Israel/Hamas war.
ID# 11883 -- 11883 -- Intersectionality, Israel, and Peacebuilding: How Do They Mix? -- Reflecting on messages from readers about our Israel/Hamas writing and why we see this as differently as we do from many of our colleagues.
ID# 11883 -- 11883 -- Intersectionality, Israel, and Peacebuilding: How Do They Mix? -- Reflecting on messages from readers about our Israel/Hamas writing and why we see this as differently as we do from many of our colleagues.
ID# 11883 -- 11883 -- Intersectionality, Israel, and Peacebuilding: How Do They Mix? -- Reflecting on messages from readers about our Israel/Hamas writing and why we see this as differently as we do from many of our colleagues.
ID# 11884 -- 11884 -- The Israel/Hamas War: A Perfect Storm of Complexity and Chaos -- A consideration of the factors that are making the Israel/Hamas war so exceptionally difficult even to talk about (civilly at least) let alone solve.
ID# 11884 -- 11884 -- The Israel/Hamas War: A Perfect Storm of Complexity and Chaos -- A consideration of the factors that are making the Israel/Hamas war so exceptionally difficult even to talk about (civilly at least) let alone solve.
ID# 11884 -- 11884 -- The Israel/Hamas War: A Perfect Storm of Complexity and Chaos -- A consideration of the factors that are making the Israel/Hamas war so exceptionally difficult even to talk about (civilly at least) let alone solve.
ID# 11885 -- 11885 -- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of November 19, 2023 -- This week's links to news articles and organizations that are, in various ways, working to help us understand and more constructively handle intractable conflict.
ID# 11886 -- 11886 -- Colleague and Context Posts for the Week of November 26, 2023 -- This week's links to news articles and organizations that are, in various ways, working to help us understand and more constructively handle intractable conflict.
ID# 11887 -- 11887 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding: A Strategy for Building a Democracy That Lives Up to Its Ideals -- A summary and links to videos outlining the Burgess's latest thinking about massively parallel peacebuilding and democracy building and explaining how it is already taking place on a large scale.
ID# 11887 -- 11887 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding: A Strategy for Building a Democracy That Lives Up to Its Ideals -- A summary and links to videos outlining the Burgess's latest thinking about massively parallel peacebuilding and democracy building and explaining how it is already taking place on a large scale.
ID# 11888 -- 11888 -- Lisa Schirch's 5-Point Peace Plan for Israel, Hamas, and the Palestinians More Broadly + Katja Rieger's Comments -- A summary of Lisa Schirch's plan for obtaining long-term peace, justice, and security for Israelis and Palestinians, and Katja Rieger's comments on that and the war more broadly.
ID# 11888 -- 11888 -- Lisa Schirch's 5-Point Peace Plan for Israel, Hamas, and the Palestinians More Broadly + Katja Rieger's Comments -- A summary of Lisa Schirch's plan for obtaining long-term peace, justice, and security for Israelis and Palestinians, and Katja Rieger's comments on that and the war more broadly.
ID# 11888 -- 11888 -- Lisa Schirch's 5-Point Peace Plan for Israel, Hamas, and the Palestinians More Broadly + Katja Rieger's Comments -- A summary of Lisa Schirch's plan for obtaining long-term peace, justice, and security for Israelis and Palestinians, and Katja Rieger's comments on that and the war more broadly.
ID# 11889 -- 11889 -- Is Intersectionality Dangerous or Benign? Colin Rule Weighs In. -- Colin Rule says that intersectionality means that all oppressed people should support each other in their mutual efforts to realize their basic human rights to live in peace and have self determination, and hence is good.
ID# 11889 -- 11889 -- Is Intersectionality Dangerous or Benign? Colin Rule Weighs In. -- Colin Rule says that intersectionality means that all oppressed people should support each other in their mutual efforts to realize their basic human rights to live in peace and have self determination, and hence is good.
ID# 11889 -- 11889 -- Is Intersectionality Dangerous or Benign? Colin Rule Weighs In. -- Colin Rule says that intersectionality means that all oppressed people should support each other in their mutual efforts to realize their basic human rights to live in peace and have self determination, and hence is good.
ID# 11891 -- 11891 -- Intersectionality Can Be Beneficial to Peacebuilding: Jay Rothman -- Jay Rothman shared his 2013 article in which "intersectionality" is seen as aiding intergroup cooperation, not harming it.
ID# 11891 -- 11891 -- Intersectionality Can Be Beneficial to Peacebuilding: Jay Rothman -- Jay Rothman shared his 2013 article in which "intersectionality" is seen as aiding intergroup cooperation, not harming it.
ID# 11892 -- 11892 -- Envisioning a Future (Almost) Everyone Will Want to Live In -- How much could we change if we could just accept the fact that "America belongs to all who live here" and we set about the task, as South Africans did, to figure out how we could make that work for everyone?
ID# 11892 -- 11892 -- Envisioning a Future (Almost) Everyone Will Want to Live In -- How much could we change if we could just accept the fact that "America belongs to all who live here" and we set about the task, as South Africans did, to figure out how we could make that work for everyone?
ID# 11893 -- 11893 -- Jack Williams and the Burgesses Discuss the Israel/Hamas War - Part 1 -- An exchange between the Burgesses and Jack Williams examining how the Burgesses have come to make the several controversial assertions with respect to the Israel and Hamas war.
ID# 11893 -- 11893 -- Jack Williams and the Burgesses Discuss the Israel/Hamas War - Part 1 -- An exchange between the Burgesses and Jack Williams examining how the Burgesses have come to make the several controversial assertions with respect to the Israel and Hamas war.
ID# 11893 -- 11893 -- Jack Williams and the Burgesses Discuss the Israel/Hamas War - Part 1 -- An exchange between the Burgesses and Jack Williams examining how the Burgesses have come to make the several controversial assertions with respect to the Israel and Hamas war.
ID# 11894 -- 11894 -- Jack Williams and the Burgesses Discuss the Israel/Hamas War - Part 2 -- The Burgesses answer Jack William's questions about strategies for bringing peace and security in Israel and Gaza, whether Israel is attacking civilians on purpose, and what can be done over the longer term to attain peace and security in the region.
ID# 11894 -- 11894 -- Jack Williams and the Burgesses Discuss the Israel/Hamas War - Part 2 -- The Burgesses answer Jack William's questions about strategies for bringing peace and security in Israel and Gaza, whether Israel is attacking civilians on purpose, and what can be done over the longer term to attain peace and security in the region.
ID# 11894 -- 11894 -- Jack Williams and the Burgesses Discuss the Israel/Hamas War - Part 2 -- The Burgesses answer Jack William's questions about strategies for bringing peace and security in Israel and Gaza, whether Israel is attacking civilians on purpose, and what can be done over the longer term to attain peace and security in the region.
ID# 11896 -- 11896 -- What Happens When We Have ANOTHER Election That Both Sides Absolutely Positively Can't Afford to Lose? -- The US 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be extremely challenging for U.S. democracy, but there are things that can be done to make sure it is both trustworthy and trusted.
ID# 11896 -- 11896 -- What Happens When We Have ANOTHER Election That Both Sides Absolutely Positively Can't Afford to Lose? -- The US 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be extremely challenging for U.S. democracy, but there are things that can be done to make sure it is both trustworthy and trusted.
ID# 11897 -- 11897 -- A New Year's Gift from Jay Rothman: 31 Definitions of Peace and You -- An exercise to help us all appreciate our inner and social experiences of peace, wholeness, and connection, as defined by many cultures around the world.
ID# 11897 -- 11897 -- A New Year's Gift from Jay Rothman: 31 Definitions of Peace and You -- An exercise to help us all appreciate our inner and social experiences of peace, wholeness, and connection, as defined by many cultures around the world.
ID# 11898 -- 11898 -- U.S. Election BI in Context Posts for January 3, 2023 -- A compendium of ideas from conflict strategists about the nature of the US hyper-polarization problem and ways to address that.
ID# 11899 -- 11899 -- Growing Strawberries on Coconut Trees: The Nature of Peace and Peacebuilding in a Collectivist and Illiberal World -- To understand why the peacebuilding field has failed to live up to its lofty ambitions, we have to unpack the world we inhabit today. Peacebuilding is not possible in many societies, and peacebuilders need to understand where their processes can work and where they cannot.
ID# 11899 -- 11899 -- Growing Strawberries on Coconut Trees: The Nature of Peace and Peacebuilding in a Collectivist and Illiberal World -- To understand why the peacebuilding field has failed to live up to its lofty ambitions, we have to unpack the world we inhabit today. Peacebuilding is not possible in many societies, and peacebuilders need to understand where their processes can work and where they cannot.
ID# 11899 -- 11899 -- Growing Strawberries on Coconut Trees: The Nature of Peace and Peacebuilding in a Collectivist and Illiberal World -- To understand why the peacebuilding field has failed to live up to its lofty ambitions, we have to unpack the world we inhabit today. Peacebuilding is not possible in many societies, and peacebuilders need to understand where their processes can work and where they cannot.
ID# 11901 -- 11901 -- Deborah Laufer and Katja Rieger on Peacebuilding, Israel/Hamas, and Future Visioning -- Two more readers contribute thoughts about the Israel/Gaza war and ways of envisioning a future we would all want to live in.
ID# 11901 -- 11901 -- Deborah Laufer and Katja Rieger on Peacebuilding, Israel/Hamas, and Future Visioning -- Two more readers contribute thoughts about the Israel/Gaza war and ways of envisioning a future we would all want to live in.
ID# 11901 -- 11901 -- Deborah Laufer and Katja Rieger on Peacebuilding, Israel/Hamas, and Future Visioning -- Two more readers contribute thoughts about the Israel/Gaza war and ways of envisioning a future we would all want to live in.
ID# 11902 -- 11902 -- Does the Concept of Ripeness Apply to the Israel/Hamas War? -- A conflict is "ripe for resolution" when the parties are in a mutually-hurting stalemate, and they can see a "way out." Though Israeli/Palestinian conflict seems, to those on the outside, to be in such a stalemate, the way out seems much less apparent.
ID# 11902 -- 11902 -- Does the Concept of Ripeness Apply to the Israel/Hamas War? -- A conflict is "ripe for resolution" when the parties are in a mutually-hurting stalemate, and they can see a "way out." Though Israeli/Palestinian conflict seems, to those on the outside, to be in such a stalemate, the way out seems much less apparent.
ID# 11902 -- 11902 -- Does the Concept of Ripeness Apply to the Israel/Hamas War? -- A conflict is "ripe for resolution" when the parties are in a mutually-hurting stalemate, and they can see a "way out." Though Israeli/Palestinian conflict seems, to those on the outside, to be in such a stalemate, the way out seems much less apparent.
ID# 11904 -- 11904 -- Martin Luther King from a Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Perspective -- A look at the now hard to imagine challenges faced by the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. King, and the 1963 March on Washington; how they were able to overcome them; and what they can teach us today.
ID# 11904 -- 11904 -- Martin Luther King from a Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Perspective -- A look at the now hard to imagine challenges faced by the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. King, and the 1963 March on Washington; how they were able to overcome them; and what they can teach us today.
ID# 11905 -- 11905 -- The Israeli / Hamas War: Understanding the Larger "Larger Context" - Part 1 -- In order to successfully navigate the complexities of the Israel/Hamas war, we need to understand the war's context in ways that are much more expansive than the left's narrow focus on Palestinian grievances.
ID# 11905 -- 11905 -- The Israeli / Hamas War: Understanding the Larger "Larger Context" - Part 1 -- In order to successfully navigate the complexities of the Israel/Hamas war, we need to understand the war's context in ways that are much more expansive than the left's narrow focus on Palestinian grievances.
ID# 11905 -- 11905 -- The Israeli / Hamas War: Understanding the Larger "Larger Context" - Part 1 -- In order to successfully navigate the complexities of the Israel/Hamas war, we need to understand the war's context in ways that are much more expansive than the left's narrow focus on Palestinian grievances.
ID# 11906 -- 11906 -- The Israeli / Hamas War: Understanding the Larger "Larger Context" - Part 2 -- Further exploration of the larger, "larger context" of the Israel/ Hamas war with the focus on global public opinion and the perverse incentives that it is creating.
ID# 11906 -- 11906 -- The Israeli / Hamas War: Understanding the Larger "Larger Context" - Part 2 -- Further exploration of the larger, "larger context" of the Israel/ Hamas war with the focus on global public opinion and the perverse incentives that it is creating.
ID# 11906 -- 11906 -- The Israeli / Hamas War: Understanding the Larger "Larger Context" - Part 2 -- Further exploration of the larger, "larger context" of the Israel/ Hamas war with the focus on global public opinion and the perverse incentives that it is creating.
ID# 11908 -- 11908 -- Anne Leslie: Why Hope Dies Last...and Why I Stopped Being an Optimist -- When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes – you alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others.
ID# 11908 -- 11908 -- Anne Leslie: Why Hope Dies Last...and Why I Stopped Being an Optimist -- When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes – you alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others.
ID# 11909 -- 11909 -- More Reader Comments On Israel and Intractable Identity Conflicts more Broadly -- A compilation of readers' thoughts on Israel and identity conflicts in general. We agree--they are intractable--but greatly in need of inspiration and new thinking!
ID# 11909 -- 11909 -- More Reader Comments On Israel and Intractable Identity Conflicts more Broadly -- A compilation of readers' thoughts on Israel and identity conflicts in general. We agree--they are intractable--but greatly in need of inspiration and new thinking!
ID# 11909 -- 11909 -- More Reader Comments On Israel and Intractable Identity Conflicts more Broadly -- A compilation of readers' thoughts on Israel and identity conflicts in general. We agree--they are intractable--but greatly in need of inspiration and new thinking!
ID# 11911 -- 11911 -- Ken Cloke: Free Speech on Campus: What Colleges and Universities Can Do - And Lorelie Kelly on How Universities Can Strengthen our Democratic System -- There are no judicial or military solutions to the wars being fought around the world, or on our campuses. Our only choice is to learn to live together by settling, transforming, or transcending our conflicts.
ID# 11911 -- 11911 -- Ken Cloke: Free Speech on Campus: What Colleges and Universities Can Do - And Lorelie Kelly on How Universities Can Strengthen our Democratic System -- There are no judicial or military solutions to the wars being fought around the world, or on our campuses. Our only choice is to learn to live together by settling, transforming, or transcending our conflicts.
ID# 11911 -- 11911 -- Ken Cloke: Free Speech on Campus: What Colleges and Universities Can Do - And Lorelie Kelly on How Universities Can Strengthen our Democratic System -- There are no judicial or military solutions to the wars being fought around the world, or on our campuses. Our only choice is to learn to live together by settling, transforming, or transcending our conflicts.
ID# 11912 -- 11912 -- More Comments on Growing Strawberries on Coconut Trees -- More reader comments and Ashok Panikkar's comments on those comments about the role of peacebuilding, force, and other approaches to the world's current most violent conflicts.
ID# 11912 -- 11912 -- More Comments on Growing Strawberries on Coconut Trees -- More reader comments and Ashok Panikkar's comments on those comments about the role of peacebuilding, force, and other approaches to the world's current most violent conflicts.
ID# 11912 -- 11912 -- More Comments on Growing Strawberries on Coconut Trees -- More reader comments and Ashok Panikkar's comments on those comments about the role of peacebuilding, force, and other approaches to the world's current most violent conflicts.
ID# 11914 -- 11914 -- Elements of Reconciliation — Part 1: Justice -- Justice has many different meanings. If social justice is to be attained, we need to sit down together an negotiate which of the many meanings of justice we want to pursue--and how.
ID# 11914 -- 11914 -- Elements of Reconciliation — Part 1: Justice -- Justice has many different meanings. If social justice is to be attained, we need to sit down together an negotiate which of the many meanings of justice we want to pursue--and how.
ID# 11916 -- 11916 -- Reader Responses on the Israel/Hamas War and Reconciliation and Justice -- A continuing exchange with readers about egocentrism, Hamas' "sacred values," Jewish identity, restorative justice, and other topics.
ID# 11916 -- 11916 -- Reader Responses on the Israel/Hamas War and Reconciliation and Justice -- A continuing exchange with readers about egocentrism, Hamas' "sacred values," Jewish identity, restorative justice, and other topics.
ID# 11916 -- 11916 -- Reader Responses on the Israel/Hamas War and Reconciliation and Justice -- A continuing exchange with readers about egocentrism, Hamas' "sacred values," Jewish identity, restorative justice, and other topics.
ID# 11917 -- 11917 -- Talking Race and Democracy with Grande Lum -- Reflections on the Community Relations Service, the Divided Community Project, the Rebuild Congress Initiative, the Disagree Better Campaign, and many other topics.
ID# 11917 -- 11917 -- Talking Race and Democracy with Grande Lum -- Reflections on the Community Relations Service, the Divided Community Project, the Rebuild Congress Initiative, the Disagree Better Campaign, and many other topics.
ID# 11918 -- 11918 -- Peter Coleman on The Way Out of Polarization and Intractability -- Polarization is destroying our relationships with friends and family. Peter Coleman has a way to fix that -- and possibly fix our society as well.
ID# 11918 -- 11918 -- Peter Coleman on The Way Out of Polarization and Intractability -- Polarization is destroying our relationships with friends and family. Peter Coleman has a way to fix that -- and possibly fix our society as well.
ID# 11918 -- 11918 -- Peter Coleman on The Way Out of Polarization and Intractability -- Polarization is destroying our relationships with friends and family. Peter Coleman has a way to fix that -- and possibly fix our society as well.
ID# 11919 -- 11919 -- Lou Kriesberg, Deborah Laufer, and Ashok Panikkar: Thoughts About a Hopeful Future for Israel/Palestine and the Dark Reality That Stands in the Way -- One positive, optimistic look at what could happen in Israel/Palestine, and others looking at some of the negative forces that are working against such an integrative outcome.
ID# 11919 -- 11919 -- Lou Kriesberg, Deborah Laufer, and Ashok Panikkar: Thoughts About a Hopeful Future for Israel/Palestine and the Dark Reality That Stands in the Way -- One positive, optimistic look at what could happen in Israel/Palestine, and others looking at some of the negative forces that are working against such an integrative outcome.
ID# 11919 -- 11919 -- Lou Kriesberg, Deborah Laufer, and Ashok Panikkar: Thoughts About a Hopeful Future for Israel/Palestine and the Dark Reality That Stands in the Way -- One positive, optimistic look at what could happen in Israel/Palestine, and others looking at some of the negative forces that are working against such an integrative outcome.
ID# 11921 -- 11921 -- Talking Peacebuilding and Democracy with Ashok Pannikar and Guy and Heidi Burgess -- A report on a thought-provoking conversation that explored some of the most difficult challenges facing the peacebuilding field.
ID# 11921 -- 11921 -- Talking Peacebuilding and Democracy with Ashok Pannikar and Guy and Heidi Burgess -- A report on a thought-provoking conversation that explored some of the most difficult challenges facing the peacebuilding field.
ID# 11922 -- 11922 -- Reconciliation "Pieces" - Parts 2, 3 and 4: Truth, Mercy, and Peace -- Progress toward reconciling today's deeply divided democracies requires the balanced and simultaneous pursuit of peace, justice, truth, and mercy.
ID# 11922 -- 11922 -- Reconciliation "Pieces" - Parts 2, 3 and 4: Truth, Mercy, and Peace -- Progress toward reconciling today's deeply divided democracies requires the balanced and simultaneous pursuit of peace, justice, truth, and mercy.
ID# 11924 -- 11924 -- Bill Froehlich Talks about the Ohio State Divided Community Project -- A summary of a conversation Bill Froehlich about the work of the Divided Community Project which works to help deeply divided communities come together to prevent, and respond to civic strife.
ID# 11924 -- 11924 -- Bill Froehlich Talks about the Ohio State Divided Community Project -- A summary of a conversation Bill Froehlich about the work of the Divided Community Project which works to help deeply divided communities come together to prevent, and respond to civic strife.
ID# 11925 -- 11925 -- Bari Weiss: What it Means to Choose Freedom, Supplemented by Franklin Foer -- Bari Weiss (The Free Press) and Franklin Foer (The Atlantic) reflect on the meaning of the war in Gaza and world response to it, to prospects for the survival of liberal democracy worldwide. The two, they agree, are linked.
ID# 11925 -- 11925 -- Bari Weiss: What it Means to Choose Freedom, Supplemented by Franklin Foer -- Bari Weiss (The Free Press) and Franklin Foer (The Atlantic) reflect on the meaning of the war in Gaza and world response to it, to prospects for the survival of liberal democracy worldwide. The two, they agree, are linked.
ID# 11925 -- 11925 -- Bari Weiss: What it Means to Choose Freedom, Supplemented by Franklin Foer -- Bari Weiss (The Free Press) and Franklin Foer (The Atlantic) reflect on the meaning of the war in Gaza and world response to it, to prospects for the survival of liberal democracy worldwide. The two, they agree, are linked.
ID# 11927 -- 11927 -- Gaza, Ukraine, Increasing Global Tensions, and the Nature of War -- An exploration of Quincy Wright's image of total war, reasons why it is so much more dangerous than lesser armed conflicts, and mechanisms through which it could quickly spread around the world.
ID# 11927 -- 11927 -- Gaza, Ukraine, Increasing Global Tensions, and the Nature of War -- An exploration of Quincy Wright's image of total war, reasons why it is so much more dangerous than lesser armed conflicts, and mechanisms through which it could quickly spread around the world.
ID# 11927 -- 11927 -- Gaza, Ukraine, Increasing Global Tensions, and the Nature of War -- An exploration of Quincy Wright's image of total war, reasons why it is so much more dangerous than lesser armed conflicts, and mechanisms through which it could quickly spread around the world.
ID# 11929 -- 11929 -- Heidi Burgess Talks With James Coan about Taking De-Polarization Work "to Scale." -- Dialogue is great for the few participants, but it simply cannot be scaled up enough to change societal attitudes and behaviors. James Coan and Heidi Burgess discuss alternative ways to scale depolarization work.
ID# 11929 -- 11929 -- Heidi Burgess Talks With James Coan about Taking De-Polarization Work "to Scale." -- Dialogue is great for the few participants, but it simply cannot be scaled up enough to change societal attitudes and behaviors. James Coan and Heidi Burgess discuss alternative ways to scale depolarization work.
ID# 11929 -- 11929 -- Heidi Burgess Talks With James Coan about Taking De-Polarization Work "to Scale." -- Dialogue is great for the few participants, but it simply cannot be scaled up enough to change societal attitudes and behaviors. James Coan and Heidi Burgess discuss alternative ways to scale depolarization work.
ID# 11929 -- 11929 -- Heidi Burgess Talks With James Coan about Taking De-Polarization Work "to Scale." -- Dialogue is great for the few participants, but it simply cannot be scaled up enough to change societal attitudes and behaviors. James Coan and Heidi Burgess discuss alternative ways to scale depolarization work.
ID# 11930 -- 11930 -- Anne Leslie: Slurps, Sulks, and Family History: Do You Care Enough to Argue? -- ok
ID# 11930 -- 11930 -- Anne Leslie: Slurps, Sulks, and Family History: Do You Care Enough to Argue? -- Sometimes it is better to have an argument, rather than stew in silence, and have it with the mindset of wanting to learn more about the other person's truth instead of wanting to 'win'?
ID# 11931 -- 11931 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 1 -- People engaged in massively parallel peace and democracy building play at least 50 different roles. In Part 1 of this three part series, we explore the roles played by the "strategizers" who help us understand the both nature of the problem and possible responses.
ID# 11931 -- 11931 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 1 -- People engaged in massively parallel peace and democracy building play at least 50 different roles. In Part 1 of this three part series, we explore the roles played by the "strategizers" who help us understand the both nature of the problem and possible responses.
ID# 11931 -- 11931 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 1 -- People engaged in massively parallel peace and democracy building play at least 50 different roles. In Part 1 of this three part series, we explore the roles played by the "strategizers" who help us understand the both nature of the problem and possible responses.
ID# 11931 -- 11931 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 1 -- People engaged in massively parallel peace and democracy building play at least 50 different roles. In Part 1 of this three part series, we explore the roles played by the "strategizers" who help us understand the both nature of the problem and possible responses.
ID# 11932 -- 11932 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of March 24, 2024 -- This week's links to news articles and organizations that are, in various ways, working to help us understand and more constructively handle intractable conflict.
ID# 11933 -- 11933 -- Lorelei Kelly on Strengthening Democracy at the Top and the Bottom -- Lorelei Kelly describes the work of the bipartisan Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress which passed 202 recommendations, many unanimously. Over half have been implemented and most others are in progress.
ID# 11933 -- 11933 -- Lorelei Kelly on Strengthening Democracy at the Top and the Bottom -- Lorelei Kelly describes the work of the bipartisan Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress which passed 202 recommendations, many unanimously. Over half have been implemented and most others are in progress.
ID# 11934 -- 11934 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 2 -- The second of three posts explaining the actor roles needed for a massively parallel peacebuilding/democracy building effort to work, which combined with an earlier post on strategy roles, makes up the current MPP role list.
ID# 11934 -- 11934 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 2 -- The second of three posts explaining the actor roles needed for a massively parallel peacebuilding/democracy building effort to work, which combined with an earlier post on strategy roles, makes up the current MPP role list.
ID# 11934 -- 11934 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Roles - Part 2 -- The second of three posts explaining the actor roles needed for a massively parallel peacebuilding/democracy building effort to work, which combined with an earlier post on strategy roles, makes up the current MPP role list.
ID# 11935 -- 11935 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of April 7, 2024 -- This week's links to news articles and organizations that are, in various ways, working to help us understand and more constructively handle intractable conflict.
ID# 11936 -- 11936 -- Knife Edge Elections, the 51% Hammer Strategy, Hatemongering, and Scapegoating -- Why are the United States' elections so close and so bitterly fought? Guy Burgess argues our knife-edge elections are caused by scapegoating, hatemongering, and our drive to get as much as we can for ourselves, by taking it away from the other side.
ID# 11936 -- 11936 -- Knife Edge Elections, the 51% Hammer Strategy, Hatemongering, and Scapegoating -- Why are the United States' elections so close and so bitterly fought? Guy Burgess argues our knife-edge elections are caused by scapegoating, hatemongering, and our drive to get as much as we can for ourselves, by taking it away from the other side.
ID# 11936 -- 11936 -- Knife Edge Elections, the 51% Hammer Strategy, Hatemongering, and Scapegoating -- Why are the United States' elections so close and so bitterly fought? Guy Burgess argues our knife-edge elections are caused by scapegoating, hatemongering, and our drive to get as much as we can for ourselves, by taking it away from the other side.
ID# 11937 -- 11937 -- Become Part of the Solution -- The American electorate includes True Believers, Pro-Democracy Transpartisans, and the Disillusioned, Disengaged, and Politically Homeless. We need to grow the second group, while shrinking the other two if we want American democracy to survive.
ID# 11937 -- 11937 -- Become Part of the Solution -- The American electorate includes True Believers, Pro-Democracy Transpartisans, and the Disillusioned, Disengaged, and Politically Homeless. We need to grow the second group, while shrinking the other two if we want American democracy to survive.
ID# 11938 -- 11938 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of April 14, 2024 -- This week's links to news articles and organizations that are, in various ways, working to help us understand and more constructively handle intractable conflict.
ID# 11939 -- 11939 -- Don't Take the "Hate Bait!" -- Returning hate with hate hurts everyone. Much better to return hate with inquiry and respect (even if it isn't deserved), and try to defuse the anger before it explodes.
ID# 11939 -- 11939 -- Don't Take the "Hate Bait!" -- Returning hate with hate hurts everyone. Much better to return hate with inquiry and respect (even if it isn't deserved), and try to defuse the anger before it explodes.
ID# 11939 -- 11939 -- Don't Take the "Hate Bait!" -- Returning hate with hate hurts everyone. Much better to return hate with inquiry and respect (even if it isn't deserved), and try to defuse the anger before it explodes.
ID# 11940 -- 11940 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of April 21, 2024 -- This week's links to news articles and organizations that are, in various ways, working to help us understand and more constructively handle intractable conflict.
ID# 11940 -- 11940 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of April 21, 2024 -- This week's links to news articles and organizations that are, in various ways, working to help us understand and more constructively handle intractable conflict.
ID# 11941 -- 11941 -- Attack the Problem, Not the People -- Separate the people from the problem might be the most often violated fundamental conflict resolution principle, even by people who know better. And it is hurting us.
ID# 11941 -- 11941 -- Attack the Problem, Not the People -- Separate the people from the problem might be the most often violated fundamental conflict resolution principle, even by people who know better. And it is hurting us.
ID# 11942 -- 11942 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of April 28, 2024 -- This week's links to news articles and organizations that are, in various ways, working to help us understand and more constructively handle intractable conflict.
ID# 11943 -- 11943 -- Crisis, Contradiction, Certainty, and Contempt -- Columbia Professor Peter Coleman, and expert on intractable conflict, reflects on the intractable conflict occurring on his own campus, suggesting "ways out" that would be better for everyone.
ID# 11943 -- 11943 -- Crisis, Contradiction, Certainty, and Contempt -- Columbia Professor Peter Coleman, and expert on intractable conflict, reflects on the intractable conflict occurring on his own campus, suggesting "ways out" that would be better for everyone.
ID# 11944 -- 11944 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Roles - Part 3 -- Part 3 of a 4 part series examining the many roles played by participants in Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building. This newsletter focuses on those who help us analyze complex problems and develop collaborative solutions.
ID# 11944 -- 11944 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Roles - Part 3 -- Part 3 of a 4 part series examining the many roles played by participants in Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building. This newsletter focuses on those who help us analyze complex problems and develop collaborative solutions.
ID# 11944 -- 11944 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Roles - Part 3 -- Part 3 of a 4 part series examining the many roles played by participants in Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building. This newsletter focuses on those who help us analyze complex problems and develop collaborative solutions.
ID# 11944 -- 11944 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Roles - Part 3 -- Part 3 of a 4 part series examining the many roles played by participants in Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building. This newsletter focuses on those who help us analyze complex problems and develop collaborative solutions.
ID# 11945 -- 11945 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building Links for the Week of May 19, 2024 -- This week's links to news articles and organizations that are, in various ways, working to help us understand and more constructively handle intractable conflict.
ID# 11947 -- 11947 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Roles - Part 4 -- The last in a four-part series of MPP roles looking at those who help balance power so that everyone in society is treated fairly, and those who try to defend democracy from those who would destroy it.
ID# 11947 -- 11947 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Roles - Part 4 -- The last in a four-part series of MPP roles looking at those who help balance power so that everyone in society is treated fairly, and those who try to defend democracy from those who would destroy it.
ID# 11947 -- 11947 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Roles - Part 4 -- The last in a four-part series of MPP roles looking at those who help balance power so that everyone in society is treated fairly, and those who try to defend democracy from those who would destroy it.
ID# 11948 -- 11948 -- Guy and Heidi Burgess's Thoughts on Memorial Day and Louis Kriesberg on Seeing a Way Out of The Gaza War -- A reflection on why peacebuilders ought to take Memorial Day much more seriously and Louis Kriesberg's thoughts on how the Gaza war might be ended.
ID# 11948 -- 11948 -- Guy and Heidi Burgess's Thoughts on Memorial Day and Louis Kriesberg on Seeing a Way Out of The Gaza War -- A reflection on why peacebuilders ought to take Memorial Day much more seriously and Louis Kriesberg's thoughts on how the Gaza war might be ended.
ID# 11994 -- 11994 -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Roles - Part 3 -- Part 3 of a 4 part series examining the many roles played by participants in Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building. This newsletter focuses on those who help us analyze complex problems and develop collaborative solutions.
ID# 12008 -- 12008 -- Complacency and the Coming Storm -- An essay that asked us to consider the possibility that the relative peace and stability that we've enjoyed over the last several decades is something of an aberration and that "normal" times are much more dangerous. We need to take efforts to avoid this kind of normality much more seriously.
ID# 12039 -- 12039 -- Why Israel Is Acting This Way -- An essay that places Israeli actions (both past and future) into the broader context of Middle Eastern political violence — violence that often does not involve Israel (and does involve large-scale attacks on civilians).
ID# 12044 -- 12044 -- This Is Hezbollah’s Arsenal Of Weapons It Could Rain On Israel -- A look at the terrifying array of weapons that Hezbollah has hidden in civilian areas all over southern Lebanon — weapons that, if used, could quickly provoke a much wider and more catastrophic war.
ID# 12059 -- 12059 -- The Moral Questions at the Heart of the Gaza War -- A thought-provoking look of complex moral questions that are going to face Israeli soldiers as they enter Gaza (and the rest of the world as they judge the Israelis and the Palestinians).
ID# 12062 -- 12062 -- The Deep Roots of the Left’s Deafening Silence on Hamas -- For many, the second biggest surprise associated with the October 7 attack was the reluctance of many on the left to condemn the attack (and the fact that some even supported it). This article looks at the intellectual foundations behind the left's reactions.
ID# 12071 -- 12071 -- Appeasing Iran Has Failed -- A critique of the Obama/Biden strategy of trying diffuse the Iranian threat by negotiating some sort of détente and an argument that Iran was never interested in any kind of reasonable compromise.
ID# 12073 -- 12073 -- What Hamas Wants -- A chilling account of the many ways in which experts (including peacebuilders) misjudged Hamas. It is now clear that it is not a rational, good-faith actor seeking to defend the legitimate interests of its citizens. It is a sadistic and suicidal cult focused on destroying Israel and the Jews.
ID# 12081 -- 12081 -- Palestinian Lives Matter, Except to Hamas -- Strong reason to believe that the Hamas' callousness and total disregard for civilian welfare extends to the citizens of Gaza.
ID# 12085 -- 12085 -- The Best of Bad Options for Recovering the Hostages -- From long-time Mideast negotiator, Dennis Ross, thoughts about how it might be possible to negotiate the release of the hostages.
ID# 12093 -- 12093 -- My Phone Says 2023. It Feels Like 1948. -- The combined horror of the October 7 attack on Israel, the use of human shields by Hamas to protect itself, and global condemnation of anything that Israel might do that harms these civilians is leaving Israelis with the sense that they are fighting for their very existence.
ID# 12097 -- 12097 -- A World Without American Deterrence -- While the United States has, during its reign as a superpower, done lots of truly terrible things, it does not necessarily follow that American decline will make things better. There is a critical need for better ways of deterring aggression and combating evil.
ID# 12099 -- 12099 -- How the Palestinian Authority Failed Its People -- A review of some of the many ways in which the Palestinian people have been victimized by their corrupt and ruthless leaders.
ID# 12101 -- 12101 -- A Quick Primer on Understanding 21st-Century Israel -- The many conflicts swirling around Israel cannot be understood by a quick perusal of current events. This is a part of the world where history really matters and this is an especially good guide to sources that explain that history.
ID# 12108 -- 12108 -- A Dark Day for the Middle East—and Journalism -- A careful analysis of the way in which the Gaza hospital bombing was reported in the mainstream US press -- an analysis that reveals a shocking disregard for basic journalistic ethics.
ID# 12110 -- 12110 -- It’s Not the Occupation -- A counter-argument to the claim that the Hamas war was simply a desperate effort to resist an unjust occupation. The article explains the long history of similar violence — violence that precedes any sort of Israeli occupation.
ID# 12114 -- 12114 -- The United Nations, Israel and Anti-Semitism -- A summary of the many areas in which Israelis believe that they are not being treated fairly by the United Nations.
ID# 12115 -- 12115 -- How is the IDF Minimizing Harm to Civilians in Gaza? -- A summary of the specific steps Israel's Defense Forces have historically taken to limit civilian casualties during its many responses to Hamas' terror attacks — a sharp contrast to Hamas' direct targeting of Israeli civilians and use of civilian shields.
ID# 12121 -- 12121 -- In Global Conflict Zones, Hospitals and Doctors Are No Longer Spared -- A look at the global deterioration of protections that the laws of war provide to the doctors and hospitals serving the many casualties of war.
ID# 12126 -- 12126 -- What Comes After Hamas? A Plan to Return the Gaza Strip to Palestinians and Keep Israel Safe -- A Foreign Affairs article that is starting to think seriously about how the Israeli campaign against Hamas might be followed by an international effort to bring peace and stability to Gaza. This is critical topic that demands a lot more attention.
ID# 12133 -- 12133 -- Sick of Cancel Culture? One Man Has a Surprising Solution. -- An interview with Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation For Individual Rights in Education explaining an important new book and why the belief that having "to destroy freedom to save freedom" is a formula for tyranny.
ID# 12134 -- 12134 -- Diseases of the Intellect -- A provocative exploration of some of the psychological dynamics that prevent us from constructively responding when things go wrong.
ID# 12134 -- 12134 -- Diseases of the Intellect -- A provocative exploration of some of the psychological dynamics that prevent us from constructively responding when things go wrong.
ID# 12139 -- 12139 -- Hamas does not yet understand the depth of Israeli resolve -- A must-read history of the many Israeli peace overtures that were violently rejected by Palestinians (included an account of the 2000 era when Israelis made all of the concessions that peacemakers recommended and had those concessions met with a massive wave of terror attacks).
ID# 12140 -- 12140 -- Hamas’s Propaganda Triumph -- 0
ID# 12141 -- 12141 -- The Day the Delusions Died -- An exploration of the ways in which the Hamas attack (and the way in which much of the progressive left reacted to that attack) has shattered the worldview of many progressives in ways that are forcing a massive rethinking.
ID# 12145 -- 12145 -- Why Jews Cannot Stop Shaking Right Now -- An explanation of why Israelis (and Jews, more generally) find the Hamas' October 7 even more terrifying than non-Jews might conclude from watching the news. There is a long history of this kind of violence that we thought we had moved beyond. Now it seems clear that we haven't.
ID# 12146 -- 12146 -- Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries -- The very real hardships faced by Palestinian refugees from the 1948 and 1967 wars are only one side of the refugee flows associated with the Arab-Israeli conflict. This article explores a lesser-known story of what happened to Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
ID# 12148 -- 12148 -- A Catastrophic Success for Hamas? -- A look at what Hamas (and, before it, Al Qaeda) had hoped to accomplish with their terror attacks and an analysis of how their "hoped for" victory led, instead, to catastrophe.
ID# 12149 -- 12149 -- I Don’t See a Better Way Out -- From someone who has devoted much of their life to making peace between Israelis and Palestinians, an agonizing account of his decision to support the invasion of Gaza. Now, the challenge is to mount that invasion in ways that will lead to a better world.
ID# 12152 -- 12152 -- A Humanist Manifesto -- We end this dismal series of links with an uplifting reminder, from David Brooks, about the power of humanism -- our best defense against the forces of dystopia.
ID# 12154 -- 12154 -- Many Palestinians in Gaza hate Hamas. My father certainly did -- A window into how extraordinarily difficult it is for Gazans to mount any sort of effective opposition to Hamas (and why brutal authoritarianism is so dangerous).
ID# 12159 -- 12159 -- Talking Past Each Other: How Ideographs Hamper Mutual Understanding -- More insight into the psychological complexity of human thought and communication. This article focuses on ideographs and how they influence our ability to understand one another.
ID# 12164 -- 12164 -- The End of Allyship -- An assessment of the role that unquestioning "allyship" has played in a hyper-polarizing society by preventing constructive criticism.
ID# 12168 -- 12168 -- Why identity politics is poisonous to the ideal of human equality -- Well-documented reflections on identity politics, the Plessy vs Ferguson Supreme Court decision (which enshrined the "separate but equal" doctrine), and the idea of human equality
ID# 12177 -- 12177 -- Why My Generation Hates Jews -- A heartbreaking account of how the now common educational practice of bifurcating society into oppressed and oppressor groups has metastasized in ways that have produced a generation with deeply anti-Semitic beliefs -- all of the name of social justice.
ID# 12177 -- 12177 -- Why My Generation Hates Jews -- A heartbreaking account of how the now common educational practice of bifurcating society into oppressed and oppressor groups has metastasized in ways that have produced a generation with deeply anti-Semitic beliefs -- all of the name of social justice.
ID# 12189 -- 12189 -- I Might Have Once Favored a Cease-Fire With Hamas, but Not Now -- From longtime peace negotiator, Dennis Ross, a description of what he sees as the most promising path toward a better future for both Israelis and Palestinians.
ID# 12190 -- 12190 -- Searching for Humanity in the Middle East -- From David Brooks, an extremely perceptive the analysis of the principal frames/paradigms good people are using to make sense of events surrounding the Hamas' attack. To our three frames, he adds a fourth (which he says is even more important), "authoritarian nihilism."
ID# 12194 -- 12194 -- Why America Doesn’t Build -- An essay examining ways in which an inability to constructively navigate the many conflicts associated with the transition to a net zero energy economy is threatening to undermine the entire effort.
ID# 12194 -- 12194 -- Why America Doesn’t Build -- An essay examining ways in which an inability to constructively navigate the many conflicts associated with the transition to a net zero energy economy is threatening to undermine the entire effort.
ID# 12203 -- 12203 -- The online information ecosystem during the Israel-Gaza crisis -- In addition to its relatively narrow military objectives, the Gaza war is, perhaps most importantly, the battle for the hearts and minds of the global population. This article looks at the high-tech information ecosystem in which this battle will be fought.
ID# 12209 -- 12209 -- My Friend, The Zionist -- A rare look at what an in-depth conversation between friends who have been divided by an extraordinarily deep, and perhaps unbridgeable, conflict looks like.
ID# 12209 -- 12209 -- My Friend, The Zionist -- A rare look at what an in-depth conversation between friends who have been divided by an extraordinarily deep, and perhaps unbridgeable, conflict looks like.
ID# 12214 -- 12214 -- The Victory Hamas Has Already Won -- An analysis of the depressingly successful strategy that Hamas has used to turn its barbarous conduct into a winning political strategy and thoughts about the terrible precedent that this sets.
ID# 12216 -- 12216 -- As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies -- A detailed look at what Hamas' strategy of using civilian shields looks like in actual practice and a description of the elaborate fortifications it has constructed and supplied under Gaza's civilian population.
ID# 12224 -- 12224 -- What a lonely time to be a Jew in America -- Reflections on the terrifying and heartbreaking experience of being a Jew in a world where so many excuse and, often, celebrate the barbarity of Hamas' attack on Israel and anti-Semitism, more generally.
ID# 12225 -- 12225 -- What a Ground Campaign in Gaza Will Look Like -- From a military perspective, an especially detailed and honest assessment of the unfathomable horrors likely to accompany Israel's invasion of Gaza and an explanation of why some better method of defeating Hamas is so badly needed.
ID# 12227 -- 12227 -- A Different Concept of Death -- An exploration of an especially troubling aspect of Hamas' war against Israel -- suicide bombers and martyrdom. This is something that has huge implications on the battlefield and for prospects of negotiating a coexistence-based resolution of the conflict.
ID# 12228 -- 12228 -- The Missing Context -- From Francis Fukuyama, an especially thoughtful and objective effort to explain the context surrounding Hamas' attack on Israel and the ensuing war.
ID# 12229 -- 12229 -- Feminists Are Consenting to Hamas’ Rape Culture -- A look at one of those cases in which the intersectional left's anticolonial bifurcation of the world into oppressor and oppressed groups seems to make no sense.
ID# 12234 -- 12234 -- The Untold Stories of Gazans -- A much-needed counterpoint to the widespread demonization and dehumanization of Gazans that has followed the October 7 attack.
ID# 12235 -- 12235 -- JD Haltigan: The Emotional Dysregulation Behind Progressive Authoritarianism -- An important and controversial argument worth considering: the political left has its own authoritarian streak -- one that is not driven by the grandiose narcissism of Donald Trump, but rather something different -- vulnerable narcissism.
ID# 12235 -- 12235 -- JD Haltigan: The Emotional Dysregulation Behind Progressive Authoritarianism -- An important and controversial argument worth considering: the political left has its own authoritarian streak -- one that is not driven by the grandiose narcissism of Donald Trump, but rather something different -- vulnerable narcissism.
ID# 12238 -- 12238 -- A World at War -- What Is Behind the Global Explosion of Violent Conflict? -- A thoughtful exploration of the many ways in which global efforts to limit large-scale violence are eroding.
ID# 12240 -- 12240 -- Brexit and The Voice: Two Ill-Conceived Referenda -- Reflections on two cases in which the voters were asked to consider hugely consequential and poorly understood referenda.
ID# 12244 -- 12244 -- On This Issue, Matt Gaetz Actually Has a Good Point -- An argument that much-maligned GOP rebels like Matt Gatetz are making at least one sensible argument -- Congress ought to follow its own rules and debate and pass all 12 appropriations bills (something it hasn't done since the mid 1990s).
ID# 12251 -- 12251 -- Destiny of Earth -- For those times when you want to think really, really big, a review and summary of a provocative new book, "A Theory of Everyone."
ID# 12256 -- 12256 -- The Israel-Hamas War Will Reshape Western Politics -- An analysis of the many ways in which the politics of Western democracies is likely to be influenced by the surprisingly intense conflict over whether Israel or Hamas is most deserving of support.
ID# 12260 -- 12260 -- How a deep Palestinian yearning has been hijacked by Hamas -- Thoughts about a little mentioned but critically important conflict — the conflict between Hamas and Palestinians who would like to take a different path.
ID# 12264 -- 12264 -- After Years of Vowing to Destroy Israel, Iran Faces a Dilemma -- For years, the Iranians have used fiery rhetoric about the destruction of Israel to mobilize support and deflect criticism. Following the most successful attack on Israel in decades, they now are having to decide whether they really mean it.
ID# 12266 -- 12266 -- The Tech That’s Radically Reimagining the Public Sphere -- A thoughtful analysis of what the advent of inexpensive, widely available, and accurate facial recognition is likely to due to society.
ID# 12268 -- 12268 -- Free Speech Defenders Must Be Consistent -- A plea for free speech standards that protect everyone's right to express their views and not just the rights of one's allies.
ID# 12275 -- 12275 -- The Words in the Middle East That Are Breaking My Heart -- Perhaps more than anything, the Hamas attack was a campaign to dehumanize Gazans in the eyes of Israelis. Reflections on where this has taken us.
ID# 12279 -- 12279 -- Why We're Rescuing Local News -- A good news story about a major effort to restore local news -- a cornerstone of effective civic culture and the ability of local communities to govern themselves democratically.
ID# 12283 -- 12283 -- 5 Things to Know About the Hamas-Run Gaza Health Ministry -- A guide for those trying to evaluate the credibility of widely cited statistics about Gaza war casualties. Remember, we are in the midst of an information war and these statistics come from Hamas -- the party that started that war.
ID# 12284 -- 12284 -- The Laws of Campus Culture War -- For those embroiled in the campus culture wars, a primer on what everyone ought to know about the law regarding such conflicts.
ID# 12285 -- 12285 -- The Theory of Hamas’s Catastrophic Success -- An enlightening essay the tries to understand what Hamas was thinking and hoping to accomplish when they launched their brutal attack on Israel.
ID# 12289 -- 12289 -- How to Stay Sane in Brutalizing Times -- Thoughts on how to better cope with the turbulent and increasingly violent era in which we find ourselves from people who have struggled through vastly more dangerous times.
ID# 12293 -- 12293 -- Restoring Civility in Our Politics -- An overview and summary of an important new book, "The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves" by Alexandra Hudson.
ID# 12299 -- 12299 -- Two Ways of Looking at the West’s Population Dilemma -- Reflections on the big demographic changes (including migration) that are going to shape our future and provide real opportunities, as well as a focal point for conflict.
ID# 12302 -- 12302 -- Gaza and the De-Colonization Narrative -- Western views of Arab society often get one major thing wrong – Arab agency.
ID# 12305 -- 12305 -- Behind Hamas’s Bloody Gambit to Create a ‘Permanent’ State of War -- An examination of what appears to be the core goal of Hamas' brutal October 7 attack -- make peace impossible.
ID# 12307 -- 12307 -- Finally, a book about critical social justice that its advocates might read -- A review and summary of Yascha Mounk major new, must-read book on intersectionality, the identity synthesis and an associated trap that is taking society in very dangerous directions.
ID# 12309 -- 12309 -- Free speech is in trouble -- From Nate Silver, a detailed look at a major new poll exploring what young people really think about free speech.
ID# 12309 -- 12309 -- Free speech is in trouble -- From Nate Silver, a detailed look at a major new poll exploring what young people really think about free speech.
ID# 12313 -- 12313 -- Is Campus Rage Fueled by Middle Eastern Money? -- The disturbing article about a different manifestation of the bad-faith actor problem -- one focused on the use of large donations by foreign powers to influence the way in which major universities teach about specific foreign policy issues.
ID# 12313 -- 12313 -- Is Campus Rage Fueled by Middle Eastern Money? -- The disturbing article about a different manifestation of the bad-faith actor problem -- one focused on the use of large donations by foreign powers to influence the way in which major universities teach about specific foreign policy issues.
ID# 12317 -- 12317 -- The MAGAfication of the Left: A progressive movement that makes allowances for Jew-hatred cannot endure. -- A highly critical look at the social justice left that focuses on moral hypocrisy of fighting against oppression while embracing anti-Semitism.
ID# 12318 -- 12318 -- America’s two homelessness problems -- A thoughtful look at the two very different elements of homelessness (and options for better dealing with both problems).
ID# 12319 -- 12319 -- Where Have All The Democrats Gone? -- A window into the ever-changing nature of the left and right-leaning political coalitions that divide our hyper-polarized society.
ID# 12324 -- 12324 -- Social Media Broke Up With News. So Did Readers. -- An update on the continually changing way in which information flows through our society.
ID# 12324 -- 12324 -- Social Media Broke Up With News. So Did Readers. -- An update on the continually changing way in which information flows through our society.
ID# 12326 -- 12326 -- Forget About Overpopulation, Soon There Will Be Too Few Humans -- Food for thought for those thinking about complex relationship between social and environmental sustainability and demographic change.
ID# 12327 -- 12327 -- My grand theory of the left -- For those who may have thought that intersectionality (or perhaps something else) explains the left's behavior, an essay that reminds us that things are more complex than that.
ID# 12329 -- 12329 -- How Democrats Lost Voters With a ‘Compensate Losers’ Strategy -- Reflections on the impact of the political strategy that focuses on providing financial assistance to the disadvantaged (rather than removing those disadvantages).
ID# 12334 -- 12334 -- Google’s Relationship With Facts Is Getting Wobblier -- For a world in which Google has, in a wide range of settings, become the final arbiter with respect to wide range of factual disputes, alarming questions about its declining reliability.
ID# 12334 -- 12334 -- Google’s Relationship With Facts Is Getting Wobblier -- For a world in which Google has, in a wide range of settings, become the final arbiter with respect to wide range of factual disputes, alarming questions about its declining reliability.
ID# 12337 -- 12337 -- Even the Oppressed Have Obligations -- As we struggle against oppression, injustice, and inequality it is important to remember that everyone (including the oppressed) has a responsibility to uphold the values of the world that we are all trying to build.
ID# 12339 -- 12339 -- ‘Social’ Justice Is Injustice -- A provocative challenge to the kind of justice being pursued by the social justice movement.
ID# 12346 -- 12346 -- Batya Ungar-Sargon: The Antisemites Scream. And I Stiffen My Spine. -- An interesting essay outlining an alternative way for marginalized groups to respond to verbal assaults.
ID# 12353 -- 12353 -- When Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic -- A well reasoned analysis of the complex relationship between anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, internal Israeli political conflict, and Israel's need to defend itself.
ID# 12355 -- 12355 -- Bari Weiss: End DEI -- A critical look at the a critical look at the DEI programs that have now become so firmly embedded in the conventional wisdom (and valuable food for thought).
ID# 12362 -- 12362 -- Algorithms Hijacked My Generation. I Fear For Gen Alpha. -- Reflections on the critically important role being played by the algorithms which determine what, exactly, we see through our Internet-based window to the world.
ID# 12362 -- 12362 -- Algorithms Hijacked My Generation. I Fear For Gen Alpha. -- Reflections on the critically important role being played by the algorithms which determine what, exactly, we see through our Internet-based window to the world.
ID# 12368 -- 12368 -- In Israel, There Is Grief and There Is Fury. Beneath the Fury, Fear. -- A really excellent piece of reporting. This is the kind of article that can help people who live a half a world away come much closer to understanding what another group of people is thinking.
ID# 12369 -- 12369 -- Is Anything Still True? On the Internet, No One Knows Anymore -- An important exploration of the nature of truth (and knowable truth) in the contemporary Internet era.
ID# 12369 -- 12369 -- Is Anything Still True? On the Internet, No One Knows Anymore -- An important exploration of the nature of truth (and knowable truth) in the contemporary Internet era.
ID# 12370 -- 12370 -- The Return of the Isolationist Republicans -- Given the world's many complexities and dangers, it is understandably tempting to withdraw from it all. This article explains why that would be a big mistake.
ID# 12370 -- 12370 -- The Return of the Isolationist Republicans -- Given the world's many complexities and dangers, it is understandably tempting to withdraw from it all. This article explains why that would be a big mistake.
ID# 12370 -- 12370 -- The Return of the Isolationist Republicans -- Given the world's many complexities and dangers, it is understandably tempting to withdraw from it all. This article explains why that would be a big mistake.
ID# 12382 -- 12382 -- Trump Isn’t Merely Unhinged -- For those contemplating a second Trump Presidency, a critical look at his latest thinking (with lots of reasons to worry).
ID# 12382 -- 12382 -- Trump Isn’t Merely Unhinged -- For those contemplating a second Trump Presidency, a critical look at his latest thinking (with lots of reasons to worry).
ID# 12385 -- 12385 -- Overturning Roe Changed Everything. Overturning Affirmative Action Did Not. -- An analysis of the dramatically different political ramifications of recent Supreme Court decisions on abortion and affirmative action.
ID# 12387 -- 12387 -- The Real Gaza Hospital Crisis -- An examination of the multifaceted nature of the Gaza Hospital crisis -- it, sadly, is about much more than protecting patients and healthcare workers.
ID# 12390 -- 12390 -- Why activism leads to so much bad writing -- A thought-provoking exploration of the tension between politics (with its need to compromise) and art (with its focus on articulating an idea).
ID# 12392 -- 12392 -- Progressives Aren’t Liberal -- An in-depth look at the evolution of the words "liberal" and "progressive" with real insights into the enormously important conflict between these two worldviews.
ID# 12393 -- 12393 -- Five Miles and a World Apart, Younger Activists Dream of a New Peace Process -- Welcome news that there is a new generation of peacemakers trying to chart a positive path away from the ongoing war (and reminding us that all problems create opportunities for people with ideas about how to solve them).
ID# 12394 -- 12394 -- The Politics of Tribal Nonsense -- A controversial, but pretty well documented article, that asks important and disturbing questions about the factual underpinnings of many of today's dominant narratives (including, especially, those about race).
ID# 12398 -- 12398 -- The Inside Story of How Palestinians Took Over the World -- This article provides an unusual window into the quite sophisticated, long-term strategic thinking of Palestinians -- a threat that is very hard for Westerners, with their short attention spans, to understand.
ID# 12400 -- 12400 -- Making Race Skin Deep -- An article about race that demonstrates the value of looking at such an important concept from the perspective of multiple cultures (and not just assuming that our way is the only way).
ID# 12408 -- 12408 -- Where Does Religion Come From? -- Amid the Mideast's ongoing collision over religious beliefs, thoughtful reflections on the origins of these beliefs.
ID# 12421 -- 12421 -- Humanism and Its Discontents -- A review and summary of an important new book looking at the evolution of humanistic philosophy and the difficult struggle to build societies based on that idea.
ID# 12421 -- 12421 -- Humanism and Its Discontents -- A review and summary of an important new book looking at the evolution of humanistic philosophy and the difficult struggle to build societies based on that idea.
ID# 12421 -- 12421 -- Humanism and Its Discontents -- A review and summary of an important new book looking at the evolution of humanistic philosophy and the difficult struggle to build societies based on that idea.
ID# 12422 -- 12422 -- The Perils of Affective Polarization -- The valuable primer on what everyone ought to know about affective polarization or what we call hyper-polarization.
ID# 12425 -- 12425 -- How Social Media Is Turning Into Old-Fashioned Broadcast Media -- Just when we were starting to think that we had social media figured out, important news that it is transforming itself (and its social impact) once again.
ID# 12425 -- 12425 -- How Social Media Is Turning Into Old-Fashioned Broadcast Media -- Just when we were starting to think that we had social media figured out, important news that it is transforming itself (and its social impact) once again.
ID# 12429 -- 12429 -- Why I Am a Liberal -- A defense of liberalism and an explanation of why it offers a more unifying vision for the future than the views now dominant on the left and right.
ID# 12433 -- 12433 -- Between Israelis and Palestinians, a Lethal Psychological Chasm Grows -- 0
ID# 12435 -- 12435 -- Inside Ohio State’s DEI Factory -- Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, we now have a rare window into how universities actually use DEI criteria in their internal deliberations.
ID# 12443 -- 12443 -- The Roots of Trump’s Rage -- An overview, with lots of links, of the latest political science thinking on strategies for countering President-Trump's special brand of anger filled politics.
ID# 12443 -- 12443 -- The Roots of Trump’s Rage -- An overview, with lots of links, of the latest political science thinking on strategies for countering President-Trump's special brand of anger filled politics.
ID# 12459 -- 12459 -- Hamas’s Asymmetric Advantage -- What Does It Mean to Defeat a Terrorist Group? -- From Foreign Affairs, an examination of how terrorist groups are different from other kinds of international actors.
ID# 12461 -- 12461 -- Bone-Chilling -- The story about how important it is that we maintain our infrastructure in ways that allow it to cope with extreme events.
ID# 12461 -- 12461 -- Bone-Chilling -- The story about how important it is that we maintain our infrastructure in ways that allow it to cope with extreme events.
ID# 12462 -- 12462 -- Liberals Once Embraced Interracial Marriages Like Mine. What Changed? -- Thought-provoking reflections on the pros and cons of rapidly changing social norms regarding interracial marriage along with deep questions about the kind of society that we are trying to build.
ID# 12463 -- 12463 -- Collusion vs. Stop the Steal -- A sobering look at extreme and deceptive tactics being used by both parties and an argument that the Democrats may be as guilty as Republicans.
ID# 12464 -- 12464 -- Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History -- Reflections on what it was that made the United States' economy so phenomenally productive and thoughts about why those sources of strength are being abandoned.
ID# 12464 -- 12464 -- Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History -- Reflections on what it was that made the United States' economy so phenomenally productive and thoughts about why those sources of strength are being abandoned.
ID# 12476 -- 12476 -- You Can’t Fact Check Propaganda -- A really excellent description of the nature of propaganda in the context of the Israeli/Hamas war along with an explanation of the many limits of "fact-checking."
ID# 12489 -- 12489 -- The Orwell Test -- Thought-provoking reflections on what one of history's leading experts on authoritarianism might think of contemporary politics and the many people who are trying to co-opt his ideas.
ID# 12489 -- 12489 -- The Orwell Test -- Thought-provoking reflections on what one of history's leading experts on authoritarianism might think of contemporary politics and the many people who are trying to co-opt his ideas.
ID# 12497 -- 12497 -- Where Have All the Democrats Gone? -- A critique of the progressive left and part of an explanation of why Democrats and President Biden are polling so poorly.
ID# 12501 -- 12501 -- Osama bin Laden, Big Man on Campus -- A worrisome story about how students, in their zeal to address the many shortcomings of liberal, capitalistic, democracies, are embracing the teachings of Osama bin Laden.
ID# 12507 -- 12507 -- It’s Time to Fix America’s Most Dangerous Law -- A persuasive plea for Congress to clarify the 1792 law that contains loopholes that could give an unscrupulous President the power to mobilize the federal government against his political rivals.
ID# 12508 -- 12508 -- Disagree Better: As governors of Colorado and Utah, we want to tackle toxic polarization -- An encouraging look at steps that governors are taking to limit toxic polarization and earn the trust of the electorate.
ID# 12509 -- 12509 -- What Happens When the U.S. Overestimates Its Power -- Americans tend to think of themselves as all-powerful either as an exceptional beacon of freedom or the most exploitive of the colonial powers. This article asked whether the US is really that powerful?
ID# 12511 -- 12511 -- It's not just Biden -- Incumbents everywhere are unpopular and losing elections. -- It is about more than Trump vs. Biden, the public Is losing confidence in a large fraction of its political leaders.
ID# 12512 -- 12512 -- Class Conflict and the Democratic Party -- Reflections how the Democrats made the transition from being the party of the working class to being the party of the educated professional class.
ID# 12519 -- 12519 -- In search of ‘civicians’ — the team parents of a healthy democracy -- The story about a small-scale effort to to promote civic functioning -- an effort that could be applied much more broadly.
ID# 12519 -- 12519 -- In search of ‘civicians’ — the team parents of a healthy democracy -- The story about a small-scale effort to to promote civic functioning -- an effort that could be applied much more broadly.
ID# 12520 -- 12520 -- Fertility Free-Fall -- An analysis of ongoing demographic changes that, for those concerned about social sustainability, are deeply worrying.
ID# 12520 -- 12520 -- Fertility Free-Fall -- An analysis of ongoing demographic changes that, for those concerned about social sustainability, are deeply worrying.
ID# 12522 -- 12522 -- Higher Ed Has Become a Threat to America -- A critical and undoubtedly controversial look at the impact of DEI programs on the ability of universities to fulfill their core missions.
ID# 12523 -- 12523 -- Alabama and Georgia Defy Federal Courts on Redistricting -- For those who recognize the importance of having a clear process through which the meaning of our laws is determined, a worrying case about states defying federal court rulings.
ID# 12527 -- 12527 -- Why I'm Increasingly Worried About Boys, Too -- From Jon Haidt, an important article looking at the tough challenges facing boys and young men plus thoughtful ideas about how we might best respond.
ID# 12529 -- 12529 -- How Much Does it Cost to Build a Nuclear Power Plant? -- For a time when efforts to speed the transition to carbon-free energy sources are encountering difficulties, welcome news that nuclear power may be cheaper than we thought.
ID# 12529 -- 12529 -- How Much Does it Cost to Build a Nuclear Power Plant? -- For a time when efforts to speed the transition to carbon-free energy sources are encountering difficulties, welcome news that nuclear power may be cheaper than we thought.
ID# 12532 -- 12532 -- Another Wrong Way to Measure Poverty -- A surprising story about the muddeled and misleading way in which we gather statistics about the incidence of poverty (and some proposed fixes).
ID# 12533 -- 12533 -- With ‘conversion switch’ devices, machine guns return to U.S. streets -- An explanation of how a simple, easy to reproduce, and difficult to control device may be about to dramatically exacerbate the United States' gun violence problem.
ID# 12534 -- 12534 -- Countdown to authoritarianism? -- 0
ID# 12536 -- 12536 -- What Bayard Rustin Could Teach Democrats Today -- A report on a new biopic that explores the life of Bayard Rustin -- a man with a great deal to teach the current generation of civil rights activists.
ID# 12538 -- 12538 -- Propaganda in Local Newspapers: Distorting Reality and History -- A lengthy and carefully documented explanation of the many ways in which mainstream media sources are misunderstanding and misreporting the Israeli/Hamas war.
ID# 12540 -- 12540 -- The Age of the Elected Despot Is Here -- An explanation of how electoral processes can be manipulated by authoritarian wannabes (with lots of must-learn lessons).
ID# 12540 -- 12540 -- The Age of the Elected Despot Is Here -- An explanation of how electoral processes can be manipulated by authoritarian wannabes (with lots of must-learn lessons).
ID# 12549 -- 12549 -- The Democratic Coalition Is Falling Apart -- Building victorious political coalitions requires an ability to successfully manage a wide range of within-coalition disputes. This article explains how Democrats are failing to do this.
ID# 12558 -- 12558 -- Two parties, two wildly different spending solutions, both implausible -- An explanation of how massive deficit spending allows both Republicans and Democrats to convert tough, sero-sum budgetary conflicts into positive-sum disputes that allow all of their supporters to win.
ID# 12561 -- 12561 -- Why Fundamentalists Love Trump -- With respect to Trump's strong support among evangelicals, a look at the three elements of fundamentalism: certainty, ferocity and solidarity (elements that also apply to Hamas and the secular left).
ID# 12566 -- 12566 -- Preparing the next generation of citizens requires bringing back civics -- An update on a critically important component of the broader effort to defend and strengthen democracy -- civic education.
ID# 12566 -- 12566 -- Preparing the next generation of citizens requires bringing back civics -- An update on a critically important component of the broader effort to defend and strengthen democracy -- civic education.
ID# 12566 -- 12566 -- Preparing the next generation of citizens requires bringing back civics -- An update on a critically important component of the broader effort to defend and strengthen democracy -- civic education.
ID# 12567 -- 12567 -- Trump Voters Are America Too -- An observation that the hateful rhetoric seen on the right is not an aberration. It is a reflection of what we think of each other. (Sadly, the rhetoric on the left is similarly hateful.)
ID# 12567 -- 12567 -- Trump Voters Are America Too -- An observation that the hateful rhetoric seen on the right is not an aberration. It is a reflection of what we think of each other. (Sadly, the rhetoric on the left is similarly hateful.)
ID# 12568 -- 12568 -- America Isn’t Ready for the Two-Household Child -- A real-life example of cultural lag and the struggle to adapt family support structures to changing social norms.
ID# 12569 -- 12569 -- The Left Can’t Afford to Go Mad -- Thoughtful reflections on how one can constructively and effectively challenge the many excesses embodied in Trump's campaign and possible Presidency.
ID# 12570 -- 12570 -- A Military Loyal to Trump -- The beginnings of a look into a true nightmare scenario -- one in which military forces are drawn into our political battles.
ID# 12571 -- 12571 -- What Will Happen to the American Psyche If Trump Is Reelected? -- An essay exploring some of the many ways in which our hyper-polarized politics is affecting us psychologically and physiologically.
ID# 12571 -- 12571 -- What Will Happen to the American Psyche If Trump Is Reelected? -- An essay exploring some of the many ways in which our hyper-polarized politics is affecting us psychologically and physiologically.
ID# 12575 -- 12575 -- A MAGA Judiciary -- An examination of the politicalization of the US Judiciary and worries about how a Trump administration could tip the judiciary in ways that would favor Republicans.
ID# 12576 -- 12576 -- A War on Blue America -- From a left-leaning perspective, an analysis of many ways in which a Trump Presidency could threaten the interests of Democratically-aligned communities.
ID# 12577 -- 12577 -- How Trump Has Transformed Evangelicals -- An analysis of how President Trump with his is questionable personal moral record could develop such strong support within the evangelical community.
ID# 12580 -- 12580 -- In the Shadow of the Holocaust -- From Masha Gessen, an analysis of how the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and Gaza today.
ID# 12585 -- 12585 -- What Does the Working Class Really Want? -- A pretty persuasive argument that neither Republicans nor Democrats understand the grievances motivating working-class populism. Also missing are proposals for addressing those grievances.
ID# 12598 -- 12598 -- Talk of a Trump Dictatorship Charges the American Political Debate -- An observation that President Trump and his allies are not trying to reassure voters worried about his dictatorial ambitions. Rather, they seem to be giving people more reason to worry.
ID# 12601 -- 12601 -- Aiding Terror: How Terrorists Exploit Humanitarian Organizations -- A timely and important look at the at the ways in which terrorist organizations have been able to exploit humanitarian aid providers (and fund the continuing cycle of violence).
ID# 12612 -- 12612 -- Never Trumpers Never Learn -- A critique of the tactics used by Trump's opponents and an argument that they might be undermining their own objectives.
ID# 12631 -- 12631 -- Trump ‘Could Tip an Already Fragile World Order Into Chaos’ -- An examination of the ways in which another Trump presidency (with the accompanying Democratic opposition and political chaos) could affect the international system.
ID# 12657 -- 12657 -- Civic Thought: A Proposal for University-Level Civic Education -- An argument for a vastly expanded program of civic education at the collegiate level. We desperately need such programs (provided that they reflect a bipartisan vision of what democracy should be).
ID# 12657 -- 12657 -- Civic Thought: A Proposal for University-Level Civic Education -- An argument for a vastly expanded program of civic education at the collegiate level. We desperately need such programs (provided that they reflect a bipartisan vision of what democracy should be).
ID# 12657 -- 12657 -- Civic Thought: A Proposal for University-Level Civic Education -- An argument for a vastly expanded program of civic education at the collegiate level. We desperately need such programs (provided that they reflect a bipartisan vision of what democracy should be).
ID# 12657 -- 12657 -- Civic Thought: A Proposal for University-Level Civic Education -- An argument for a vastly expanded program of civic education at the collegiate level. We desperately need such programs (provided that they reflect a bipartisan vision of what democracy should be).
ID# 12663 -- 12663 -- Why liberalism and leftism are increasingly at odds -- A really thoughtful analysis of the increasingly significant conflict that is emerging between social justice progressives and traditional liberals.
ID# 12675 -- 12675 -- Americans do talk about peace − just not the same way people do in other countries -- A reminder that different societies with different cultural perspectives think about peace in different ways.
ID# 12693 -- 12693 -- Behold, MAGA Man -- A look at how social pressures have pushed once independent political figures into fully embracing President Trump's narrative about the stolen elections and other issues.
ID# 12694 -- 12694 -- The Secret of Trump’s Appeal Isn’t Authoritarianism -- A thoughtful and surprisingly persuasive argument that much of President Trump's appeal stems from his relatively moderate policies.
ID# 12698 -- 12698 -- The Self-Doubting Superpower -- A look at the global implications of the United States' collapse of confidence in its own system.
ID# 12699 -- 12699 -- ‘I Am Your Retribution.’ Trump Knows What He Wants to Do With a Second Term. -- An examination of the evolving strategy that President Trump is promising for his second term.
ID# 12706 -- 12706 -- Income Inequality Has Been Transformed Globally -- An update on changes that have occurred in global income inequality since publication of the original "elephant curve" analysis.
ID# 12708 -- 12708 -- American democracy is cracking. These ideas could help repair it. -- A hopeful inventory of a great many promising ideas for strengthening US democracy.
ID# 12712 -- 12712 -- What is the oppressor/victim mindset and how did it conquer the academy? -- From Jon Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, a pair of essays trying to make sense of the surprising surge of anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses.
ID# 12716 -- 12716 -- The Real Reason for Marriage Polarization -- A look at the way in which political hyper-polarization has infected our most intimate interpersonal relationships.
ID# 12721 -- 12721 -- The Anti-Democratic Quest to Save Democracy From Trump -- An argument against using anti-democratic tactics to defend democracy, even when you regard President Trump as a direct threat to that democracy.
ID# 12723 -- 12723 -- US Officials Turned Regime Change Tactics Developed Abroad Against Trump, Evidence Suggests -- From a right-leaning perspective, a warning about the sophisticated and unscrupulous tactics being used to sabotage the Trump candidacy.
ID# 12726 -- 12726 -- Meet the Americans Trying to Lower the Temperature in Politics -- A Wall Street Journal profile of some of the groups that are trying to defuse the United States' hyper-polarized politics.
ID# 12727 -- 12727 -- The Only Thing More Dangerous Than Authoritarianism -- From a left-leaning perspective, a warning that unscrupulous politicians may be exploiting their constituents' Christian faith as part of a political power grab.
ID# 12734 -- 12734 -- The Southern Poverty Law Center’s New Enemy: Americans Who Accept Biology -- An in-depth (and critical) profile of the Southern Poverty Law Center highlighting the ways in which it achieved its astonishing success (and moved away from its original mission).
ID# 12735 -- 12735 -- Win-Win? -- Israel could claim victory in Gaza but so, too, could Hamas. It depends on how they each define "success."
ID# 12736 -- 12736 -- Blinken Meets With Mexico’s President About Surge in Migration at the Border -- A look at the nature and magnitude of the United States' immigration crisis -- something that is likely to play a major role in the upcoming election.
ID# 12737 -- 12737 -- Trump Is Not the Only Reason to Fix This Uniquely Dangerous Law -- An argument for reforming the "Insurrection Act" in ways that would eliminate legal loopholes that could be used by an aspiring authoritarian to direct police and military forces against their political opponents.
ID# 12737 -- 12737 -- Trump Is Not the Only Reason to Fix This Uniquely Dangerous Law -- An argument for reforming the "Insurrection Act" in ways that would eliminate legal loopholes that could be used by an aspiring authoritarian to direct police and military forces against their political opponents.
ID# 12742 -- 12742 -- America Feels Like a Codependent Household -- An attempt to help us better understand US political psychology by comparing it to dysfunctional family dynamics.
ID# 12742 -- 12742 -- America Feels Like a Codependent Household -- An attempt to help us better understand US political psychology by comparing it to dysfunctional family dynamics.
ID# 12745 -- 12745 -- Worldwide, 2024 Elections Promise a Whirlwind -- While the United States is focused on its upcoming election, a reminder that many other nations are holding elections in 2024 that also face serious challenges.
ID# 12748 -- 12748 -- Journalistic Duty in Israel Palestine News -- An excellent analysis of the difficult moral questions that journalists covering the Israeli/Palestinian conflict have been struggling with in the decades leading up to today's war.
ID# 12749 -- 12749 -- This Was a Terrible Year, and Also Maybe the Best One Yet for Humanity -- A welcome reminder that, despite the many difficult problems we face, there are many ways in which the human condition continues to make important progress.
ID# 12750 -- 12750 -- How ‘Antiracism’ Becomes Antisemitism -- An essay reflecting on one of the big surprises following Hamas' October 7 attack -- the degree to which this conflict has become a focal point in the domestic US struggle against racism.
ID# 12751 -- 12751 -- Trump’s Corruption Unbound -- An alarming look at the level of corruption that a second Trump administration seems likely to tolerate.
ID# 12751 -- 12751 -- Trump’s Corruption Unbound -- An alarming look at the level of corruption that a second Trump administration seems likely to tolerate.
ID# 12752 -- 12752 -- 10 thoughts on what is happening in Israel. -- As we try to decide what we think about conflict in Israel and Gaza, reflections on 10 aspects of the conflict worth considering.
ID# 12753 -- 12753 -- The Problem of Misinformation in an Era Without Trust -- A provocative analysis of strategies for combating misinformation for a time when there are no widely accepted sources of reliable information.
ID# 12753 -- 12753 -- The Problem of Misinformation in an Era Without Trust -- A provocative analysis of strategies for combating misinformation for a time when there are no widely accepted sources of reliable information.
ID# 12754 -- 12754 -- Doom dominates 2024 messaging as Trump and Biden trade dire warnings -- A look at the fear (and hate) mongering rhetoric that is now dominating the US Presidential campaign -- rhetoric that is going to make it even harder for one side to accept defeat.
ID# 12754 -- 12754 -- Doom dominates 2024 messaging as Trump and Biden trade dire warnings -- A look at the fear (and hate) mongering rhetoric that is now dominating the US Presidential campaign -- rhetoric that is going to make it even harder for one side to accept defeat.
ID# 12757 -- 12757 -- How the Nineties are haunting millennials -- A revealing look back at the end of the Cold War and the many ways in which the events of the turbulent 1990s shaped today's world.
ID# 12760 -- 12760 -- In 2024, the Tension Between Macroculture and Microculture Will Turn into War -- Surprising new ideas about the significance of little recognized (but critically important) changes in the way in which we generate and share information about our world.
ID# 12760 -- 12760 -- In 2024, the Tension Between Macroculture and Microculture Will Turn into War -- Surprising new ideas about the significance of little recognized (but critically important) changes in the way in which we generate and share information about our world.
ID# 12761 -- 12761 -- The Republican Party is Doomed -- An explanation of of the complex array of institutional capabilities that are required to exercise sociopolitical power -- an area where Republicans are at a major disadvantage.
ID# 12766 -- 12766 -- Matti Friedman: The Wisdom of Hamas -- A thoughtful argument that the opinions that many in the West have about the war between Israel and Hamas are based on serious misunderstandings.
ID# 12773 -- 12773 -- Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning -- An insightful look at a strategy for living through turbulent and rapidly changing times.
ID# 12774 -- 12774 -- The Welfare-Industrial Complex Is Booming -- For those who thought that only the military had an "industrial complex" problem -- a look at how the welfare industry suffers from a similar affliction.
ID# 12778 -- 12778 -- I Oppose Trump—and Any Efforts to Ban Him From the Ballot -- From William Barr, an analysis of the many dangers associated with using the 14th amendment to prevent President Trump from running for a second term.
ID# 12783 -- 12783 -- Against Mathiness -- The first, of a two-part look into what it takes to be able to integrate sophisticated (mathematically sound) analyses into public policy decision-making.
ID# 12784 -- 12784 -- The Struggle Continues: On Vincent Bevins’s “If We Burn” -- The review and summary of an important new book examining the many popular uprisings against oppressive regimes that have occurred in recent years (plus an assessment of their effectiveness).
ID# 12784 -- 12784 -- The Struggle Continues: On Vincent Bevins’s “If We Burn” -- The review and summary of an important new book examining the many popular uprisings against oppressive regimes that have occurred in recent years (plus an assessment of their effectiveness).
ID# 12789 -- 12789 -- How the Russian Government Silences Wartime Dissent -- A look into what Russia is doing to suppress opposition to its war in Ukraine and a window into how brutal, authoritarian regimes can make it impossible to effectively challenge folly and corruption.
ID# 12789 -- 12789 -- How the Russian Government Silences Wartime Dissent -- A look into what Russia is doing to suppress opposition to its war in Ukraine and a window into how brutal, authoritarian regimes can make it impossible to effectively challenge folly and corruption.
ID# 12789 -- 12789 -- How the Russian Government Silences Wartime Dissent -- A look into what Russia is doing to suppress opposition to its war in Ukraine and a window into how brutal, authoritarian regimes can make it impossible to effectively challenge folly and corruption.
ID# 12793 -- 12793 -- The Specter of Nationalism -- Identity politics has always influenced elections. In 2024, it will pose a serious threat to liberalism—and to democracy itself.
ID# 12799 -- 12799 -- The State of Global Democracy in 2024 -- From Francis Fukuyama a year-end update on increasingly serious challenges facing global democracy.
ID# 12800 -- 12800 -- Don’t Worry About Donald Trump. Worry About Yourself. -- An important reminder that demonizing those with whom we disagree is actually a direct and serious threat to our own welfare.
ID# 12805 -- 12805 -- Democrats! Time to Re-Embrace Merit, Free Speech, and Universalism -- A plea for Democrats to strengthen their electoral appeal by rediscovering the wisdom of traditional liberal values -- values that are increasingly viewed with suspicion.
ID# 12807 -- 12807 -- Why we split the world into good and evil — and make decisions we regret -- From Amanda Ripley, reflections on the many pitfalls associated with viewing the world primarily as a battle between good and evil.
ID# 12816 -- 12816 -- What Biden Needs to Tell Us -- From David Brooks, a must-read essay about how both the left and the right have abandoned win-win politics – the idea that our problems can be solved in mutually beneficial ways.
ID# 12817 -- 12817 -- The Case for Disqualifying Trump Is Strong -- From David French, a former constitutional litigator, the report on his detailed look at the legal questions surrounding President Trump's candidacy and the 14th amendment.
ID# 12821 -- 12821 -- Why the United States needs to stop being a nation of losers. -- For a time in which politics is viewed in mostly win-lose (rather than win-win) terms, reflections on the fact that most of us tend to think they we are losing.
ID# 12826 -- 12826 -- Finding moral clarity on campus about the Hamas-Israeli War -- Robert Reich's thoughts on the grotesque and staggering levels of violence surrounding the Israeli / Hamas war and a call for us all to help find a way to put an end to this violence.
ID# 12828 -- 12828 -- Governing in Complexity - Principles Paper -- A rare and important paper that tries to think through one of today's most important challenges -- societal complexity.
ID# 12828 -- 12828 -- Governing in Complexity - Principles Paper -- A rare and important paper that tries to think through one of today's most important challenges -- societal complexity.
ID# 12829 -- 12829 -- The Apparent Conflict Between Universal and Particular Language -- An examination of the hugely consequential conflict between two two visions for the kind of 21st-century society that we ought to be pursuing.
ID# 12829 -- 12829 -- The Apparent Conflict Between Universal and Particular Language -- An examination of the hugely consequential conflict between two two visions for the kind of 21st-century society that we ought to be pursuing.
ID# 12833 -- 12833 -- China’s Weapons of Mass Destruction -- A report on China's rapidly growing nuclear arsenal and the emerging 21st-century nuclear standoff -- something that, because of rapidly advancing technology, is likely to be even more dangerous.
ID# 12836 -- 12836 -- ‘Merit Is No Longer Evil’ -- An essay exploring the implications of all of the things that we believe, but can't say and the things that we don't believe, but must say.
ID# 12841 -- 12841 -- We've Been Thinking About America's Trust Collapse All Wrong -- We live in a time in which we are experiencing the widespread collapse of societal trust. Before we can remedy the situation, we need a more sophisticated image of the processes through which trust is earned.
ID# 12843 -- 12843 -- How an “Endless War” Begins -- As wars continue to proliferate across the planet, an assessment of the reasons why some wars never seem to end and why the killing goes on and on.
ID# 12843 -- 12843 -- How an “Endless War” Begins -- As wars continue to proliferate across the planet, an assessment of the reasons why some wars never seem to end and why the killing goes on and on.
ID# 12849 -- 12849 -- Hyperbole For Sale -- Sad reflections on the prospects for yet another election in which the outcome will be determined by which side can better demonize the other.
ID# 12852 -- 12852 -- A ‘National and Global Maelstrom’ Is Pulling Us Under -- From Thomas Edsall, a quick look (with lots of links) into what some of our most prominent social theorists think about society's deepening difficulties.
ID# 12858 -- 12858 -- When Democracy Is a Threat -- In the context of Taiwan's recent election, a look at how democratic elections are becoming a battlefield in the increasingly tense struggle between geopolitical rivals (and a preview of the US 2024 election).
ID# 12862 -- 12862 -- The Case for Trump … by Someone Who Wants Him to Lose -- For a time in which the mainstream, left-leaning media has almost nothing nice to say about former President Trump, a thought-provoking effort to understand his appeal.
ID# 12869 -- 12869 -- How The Biden Administration Put Race at the Center of Government Spending -- An explanation of the Biden Administration's effort to remedy "centuries of structural racism" and the Justice40 program which reserves 40% of federal assistance programs for "underserved communities."
ID# 12870 -- 12870 -- The Greatest Threat Posed by Trump -- An argument that President Trump's special brand of politics (and Democratic policies to which his supporters are rebelling) are transforming cultural beliefs in fundamental and dangerous ways.
ID# 12871 -- 12871 -- The path to peace in the Mideast could be paved by fuzzy language -- A profile of Secretary Blinken's complex and multifaceted effort to bring peace to Israel and Gaza. Regardless of what you think about his efforts, this article demonstrates the complexity of the challenge.
ID# 12873 -- 12873 -- American Universities Are Post-truth -- Universities were, above all, supposed to be in the business of providing us with increasingly accurate and reliable information about the nature of our world. An article on why they are failing to do this.
ID# 12879 -- 12879 -- Why the right is eating the left’s lunch -- As President Trump's growing support among formerly Democratic working-class voters increases his chances of winning a second term, reflections on why this is happening.
ID# 12880 -- 12880 -- How death threats get Republicans to fall in line behind Trump -- A disturbing review of instances in which threats of physical violence are being used by Trump supporters to quash dissent. Democracy can't survive if people aren't free to express their views.
ID# 12883 -- 12883 -- Substack Was a Ticking Time Bomb -- Thoughtful reflections on some of the difficult issues facing the Substack newsletter platform (which hosts our newsletter).
ID# 12883 -- 12883 -- Substack Was a Ticking Time Bomb -- Thoughtful reflections on some of the difficult issues facing the Substack newsletter platform (which hosts our newsletter).
ID# 12885 -- 12885 -- What We Keep Fighting -- For the Martin Luther King weekend, reflections on King, Rustin, Moynihan, and the continuing struggle to defend America and the pursuit of its ideals from its authoritarian enemies.
ID# 12885 -- 12885 -- What We Keep Fighting -- For the Martin Luther King weekend, reflections on King, Rustin, Moynihan, and the continuing struggle to defend America and the pursuit of its ideals from its authoritarian enemies.
ID# 12886 -- 12886 -- When Terrorists Talk, They Listen -- A profile of the Middle East Media Research Institute, an organization focused on providing a global audience with direct (but translated) access to articles on current issues intended for Mid-East audiences.
ID# 12887 -- 12887 -- Roles that Make Democracy Function -- From the Better Conflict Bulletin, reflections on Beyond Intractability's Massively Parallel Peacebuilding roles. Thanks to BCB for highlighting these so well!
ID# 12889 -- 12889 -- The Agony and Determination of Sderot -- A profile of Sderot, an Israeli town one mile from the Gaza border. This powerful article ends with the line "Conflicts end once we all recognize each other’s humanity and strive to uphold it."
ID# 12890 -- 12890 -- As if We Didn’t Have Enough to Frighten Us … -- A worrying argument that we may have to add another flashpoint (nuclear-armed North Korea) to our list of global conflicts that may be emerging as the power and influence of the US and its allies declines.
ID# 12891 -- 12891 -- Violent Pro-Palestine Demonstrations Are Not a Bug -- A look at the complex origins of violent, pro-Palestinian demonstrations and a disturbing argument that they may be being instigated by well-funded national and international provocateurs.
ID# 12892 -- 12892 -- 'Alarming' surveillance: Feds asked banks to search private transactions for terms like ‘MAGA,’ ‘Trump’ -- From the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee, documentation of the ways in which the federal government is circumventing unreasonable search protections (something that would incense Democrats if Trump did it).
ID# 12892 -- 12892 -- 'Alarming' surveillance: Feds asked banks to search private transactions for terms like ‘MAGA,’ ‘Trump’ -- From the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee, documentation of the ways in which the federal government is circumventing unreasonable search protections (something that would incense Democrats if Trump did it).
ID# 12902 -- 12902 -- Slow Change Can Be Radical Change -- For those who may be tempted by the allure of rapid, revolutionary change, an argument that a going slow approach can actually be more effective.
ID# 12904 -- 12904 -- The Soul of Civility -- A review and brief summary of an important new book exploring the concept of civility and explaining how it can help heal our society.
ID# 12904 -- 12904 -- The Soul of Civility -- A review and brief summary of an important new book exploring the concept of civility and explaining how it can help heal our society.
ID# 12904 -- 12904 -- The Soul of Civility -- A review and brief summary of an important new book exploring the concept of civility and explaining how it can help heal our society.
ID# 12915 -- 12915 -- Innovating Beyond the Two-Party System -- For those looking for an alternative to a Trump/Biden rematch, reflections on how we might escape the two-party system that as left us with such an unpopular choice.
ID# 12916 -- 12916 -- How to Thrive in an Uncertain World -- For those who have noted our tendency to highlight the complex and uncertain nature of so many ongoing conflicts, a welcome guide for those looking for a way to navigate our uncertain world.
ID# 12919 -- 12919 -- This Is the Actual Danger Posed by D.E.I. -- An argument highlighting three major areas in which DEI policies, as currently practiced, appear to violate the law and the core principles underlying democracy
ID# 12921 -- 12921 -- You Should Go to a Trump Rally -- A sensible challenge for those on the left who would like a more accurate understanding of the other side of the political divide.
ID# 12926 -- 12926 -- Putin Is Making His Plans Brutally Clear -- An update on the evolving nature of Vladimir Putin's aggressive brand of violent authoritarianism -- something that it seems like we no longer want to bother opposing.
ID# 12929 -- 12929 -- The World is Falling Apart. Blame the Flukes. -- A complexity theory-based look at the origins of our rapidly accelerating cluster of world trouble spots.
ID# 12934 -- 12934 -- America Works. DEI Doesn’t. -- From the south side of Chicago, and inner-city pastor's look at what it will take to save his community (and how that differs from prevailing progressive policies).
ID# 12936 -- 12936 -- The Electric Grid Explained In 10 Charts -- For those tempted to demonize big energy, charts explaining the complexity of the electric grid that we depend upon for our survival (and the difficulty of the green energy transition).
ID# 12942 -- 12942 -- Chevron Deference Is a Case of Too Much Judicial Restraint -- 0
ID# 12944 -- 12944 -- The Face Of The 'Suffocating Occupation' -- From MEMRI and Arab (not Israeli) sources, an eye-opening collection of videos depicting life in Gaza before October 7 -- videos that challenge a great many prevailing stereotypes.
ID# 12952 -- 12952 -- Black and Jewish Activists Have Allied for Decades. What Now? -- One of the more surprising outcomes of the October 7 attack on Israel and the war that has followed is the way in which it has shattered the long-standing alliance between Blacks and Jews.
ID# 12955 -- 12955 -- Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts -- An article for those wondering why our institutions never seem to function as intended and why the rebellion against the "administrative state" is so widespread.
ID# 12955 -- 12955 -- Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts -- An article for those wondering why our institutions never seem to function as intended and why the rebellion against the "administrative state" is so widespread.
ID# 12956 -- 12956 -- Sex Differences in the Brain and the Mind -- From the perspective of neuropsychology, a look at the conflict between what science and what politics has to say about sex differences.
ID# 12959 -- 12959 -- The Them-vs.-Us Election -- This article offers a new, perceptive, and important way of looking at the fault lines that divide our hyper-polarized society.
ID# 12964 -- 12964 -- The Truth About Banned Books -- A report on a systematic effort to identify political biases in the holdings of K-12 school libraries.
ID# 12965 -- 12965 -- Do You Remember the Ecstasy of Electing Joe Biden? -- With the 2024 election rapidly approaching, reflections on what happened to the enthusiasm of the Democratic coalition that drove Trump from office.
ID# 12968 -- 12968 -- The Harvard of the Unwoke -- For those looking for a reasonable, but less "woke" model for 21st century higher education, a report on Ben Sasse's experiment at the University of Florida.
ID# 12972 -- 12972 -- Language and Traditions Are Considered Central to National Identity -- A report on an extensive series of international polls that tries to help us understand what people think are the core elements of their national identity.
ID# 12977 -- 12977 -- South African Lawfare at The Hague -- An undoubtedly controversial argument that South Africa's genocide charges against Israel are a type of "lawfare" based on allegations that are not supported by sound legal arguments.
ID# 12980 -- 12980 -- Economies of Scale, Part III: Power, Inequality, and Dependence -- For a time in which big institutions are widely distrusted, a reminder of how much we depend upon the economies of scale that those institutions make possible.
ID# 12986 -- 12986 -- Weird Scenes from a Shrinking Planet (Part 1) -- For those who want to look at the very big picture, deep reflections on the enormous implications of declining human fertility.
ID# 12989 -- 12989 -- Trust in government: 1958-2015 -- A long-term analysis of the way in which trust in US governmental institutions has collapsed over the last half-century.
ID# 12997 -- 12997 -- The Israeli Quotes That the Press Got Wrong -- A carefully documented investigation of allegedly genocidal statements made by Israeli leaders -- an investigation that reveals how misunderstandings and missed translations can propagate in dangerous ways.
ID# 12999 -- 12999 -- Rula Hardal: Life as a Palestinian Citizen of Israel -- A reflective essay exploring the thoughts of the Palestinian who is also an Israeli citizen.
ID# 13000 -- 13000 -- Two States, One Homeland – an Open Land for All -- A link to the website of an organization that is trying to move beyond the constraints of the Oslo "two state solution" and imagine a more attractive, alternative future for the region.
ID# 13001 -- 13001 -- Top Biden aide argues Israeli-Palestinian peace is possible ‘in near term’ -- A look at the Biden administration's attempt to negotiate a near-term peace deal amid the horrific ongoing war.
ID# 13002 -- 13002 -- They’re Black Democrats. And They’re Suing Chicago Over Migrants. -- In the context of the struggle over government assistance programs in Chicago, a look at the tension between Black residents and newly arriving migrants.
ID# 13004 -- 13004 -- How the Palestinians Hijacked the Jewish Culture War -- A perceptive essay exploring the complex interactions between the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and the culture war conflicts that afflict Israel and the larger Jewish Diaspora.
ID# 13005 -- 13005 -- Looking Back on a Decade of Cancel Culture -- A look back at the way in which the cancel culture has evolved over time and its profound impact on society.
ID# 13007 -- 13007 -- The Meaning of Gaza’s Tunnels -- An exploration of the causes and far-reaching ramifications of Hamas's unique brand of tunnel warfare.
ID# 13008 -- 13008 -- Political Trench Warfare -- An exploration of what is likely to happen in the United States' upcoming "trench warfare" election -- an election characterized by a virtual tie and almost no one willing to consider changing their vote.
ID# 13010 -- 13010 -- We Are Normalizing Trump. Again. -- A summary, with lots of links to what the latest political science research is showing about President Trump's political dominance among Republicans.
ID# 13012 -- 13012 -- Too Little, Too Late -- Heartbreaking questions about why the global women's rights and LBGTQ communities have been so reluctant to condemn the atrocities of October 7.
ID# 13016 -- 13016 -- Visiting the Most Important Company in the World -- A profile of Taiwan's role as the world's sole supplier of advanced microprocessors and an explanation of why the island's fate is so strategically important.
ID# 13017 -- 13017 -- The Coming Working Class Election -- With working-class voters comprising over 60% of the electorate -- a look at the critical role that they are going to play in the upcoming election in their relationship with college-educated elites.
ID# 13018 -- 13018 -- A Conspiracy Against No Labels -- For a country in which there are almost as many independents as Republicans and Democrats combined, allegations of a conspiracy against a moderate, third-party, Presidential candidacy.
ID# 13019 -- 13019 -- America’s social ills are not simply due to inequality and despair -- An interesting article questioning some of our most basic assumptions about the challenges facing society and possible remedies -- the kind of outside the box thinking we ought to consider occasionally.
ID# 13020 -- 13020 -- How our treatments for “racial trauma” only make the problem worse -- An article that makes the case that the way in which we typically handle racial trauma is making the problem worse rather than better.
ID# 13022 -- 13022 -- Oct. 7 Was Worse Than a Terror Attack. It Was a Pogrom. -- From those who are concluding that there really was no such thing as the "uninvolved" on October 7, a plea: ‘Let me know of one Palestinian in Gaza who tried to save a Jew and maybe I’ll change my mind.’
ID# 13023 -- 13023 -- Hamas Official On Al-Jazeera Website: October 7 Was Scaled-Down Model Of Palestine's Final War Of Liberation -- Bad news for those who were hoping that October 7 was a not to be repeated aberration rather than a harbinger of things to come.
ID# 13024 -- 13024 -- Never-Trumpers Never Had a Chance -- Animosity proved stronger than character or ideology -- An argument that, at least on the Republican side, hostility towards Democrats has driven out all other political considerations. Is this true on the Democratic side?
ID# 13025 -- 13025 -- Virtuous Lies and Black Despair -- When social policies fail to produce the desired results, it's good practice to ask hard questions about unintended consequences and the possibility that good intentions may be being counterproductive.
ID# 13027 -- 13027 -- How to Save a Sad, Lonely, Angry and Mean Society -- An eloquent plea for rediscovering the many ways in which immersing ourselves in art and culture can fill the big gaps that exist in so many lives.
ID# 13029 -- 13029 -- Israel’s War With Hamas Has No End in Sight -- A sobering assessment of the Israel / Hamas war and an explanation of why prospects for peace are so dismal.
ID# 13031 -- 13031 -- Is the Electoral Fix Already In? -- Amid the cascade of articles describing the many ways in which Donald Trump threatens democracy, an important counterpoint on the right's concerns about the fairness of the upcoming election.
ID# 13031 -- 13031 -- Is the Electoral Fix Already In? -- Amid the cascade of articles describing the many ways in which Donald Trump threatens democracy, an important counterpoint on the right's concerns about the fairness of the upcoming election.
ID# 13032 -- 13032 -- America’s Families Are Not Okay -- An in-depth look at a little recognized but critically important conflict -- one that divides parents from their adult children.
ID# 13033 -- 13033 -- Palestinian Refugee Camps In The Gaza Strip Prior To October 7 – Part I -- The comparison of refugee camps in Gaza, Syria, and Jordan.
ID# 13036 -- 13036 -- Deadly Hot Air -- Thoughtful reflections on the complexities of our current political moment.
ID# 13037 -- 13037 -- Is Congress Really Going to Abandon Ukraine Now? -- A desperate plea for the West consider the humanitarian and strategic implications of abandoning Ukraine, giving Russian brutality a big win, and making it clear to the world that the West can't be trusted.
ID# 13039 -- 13039 -- Follow the Left’s Example to Reform Higher Ed -- A thoughtful proposal for cultivating a new academic field -- civics studies with the mission of figuring out how to make democracy work.
ID# 13039 -- 13039 -- Follow the Left’s Example to Reform Higher Ed -- A thoughtful proposal for cultivating a new academic field -- civics studies with the mission of figuring out how to make democracy work.
ID# 13040 -- 13040 -- How Climate Policy Went Wrong -- Hard questions about whether our climate strategy is going to be able to achieve its desired objective or whether we're just wasting money on a green energy industrial complex. We can't afford to get this wrong.
ID# 13040 -- 13040 -- How Climate Policy Went Wrong -- Hard questions about whether our climate strategy is going to be able to achieve its desired objective or whether we're just wasting money on a green energy industrial complex. We can't afford to get this wrong.
ID# 13041 -- 13041 -- How to Lower the Risk of War With China -- As we continue to slide closer to some sort of direct military confrontation with China over Taiwan, thoughts about how we can walk away from the brink.
ID# 13044 -- 13044 -- What's Wrong with Liberalism: Theory -- From Francis Fukuyama, an update on his latest thinking regarding liberalism and its discontents on the left and the right.
ID# 13053 -- 13053 -- Don’t San Francisco–ize Clean Energy -- An important story about a second-order problem that presents a serious threat to efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
ID# 13053 -- 13053 -- Don’t San Francisco–ize Clean Energy -- An important story about a second-order problem that presents a serious threat to efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
ID# 13056 -- 13056 -- How the social media mob helped me find my voice -- Personal reflections on a positive way of responding to cancel culture mobs of the left and the right.
ID# 13056 -- 13056 -- How the social media mob helped me find my voice -- Personal reflections on a positive way of responding to cancel culture mobs of the left and the right.
ID# 13058 -- 13058 -- How ‘Our Democracy’ Became Undemocratic -- An essay exploring the many ways in which the word "democracy" has been weaponized by a wide array of narrowly focused interest groups -- groups that have little concern for the welfare of the larger society.
ID# 13063 -- 13063 -- Why Men Are Drifting to the Far Right -- More insight into what is driving men and women apart politically (and undermining traditional family structures).
ID# 13065 -- 13065 -- The Rise of Technoauthoritarianism -- Reasons why our instinct to be distrustful of the big information technology companies is well-founded.
ID# 13065 -- 13065 -- The Rise of Technoauthoritarianism -- Reasons why our instinct to be distrustful of the big information technology companies is well-founded.
ID# 13065 -- 13065 -- The Rise of Technoauthoritarianism -- Reasons why our instinct to be distrustful of the big information technology companies is well-founded.
ID# 13066 -- 13066 -- Can Anything Stop the News-Industry Meltdown? -- Just as we were starting to come to terms with the much diminished state of contemporary journalism, news that things are about to get much worse.
ID# 13066 -- 13066 -- Can Anything Stop the News-Industry Meltdown? -- Just as we were starting to come to terms with the much diminished state of contemporary journalism, news that things are about to get much worse.
ID# 13068 -- 13068 -- Our Open Border Policy Is Not an Accident -- A look beyond the political showmanship that surrounds the immigration debate and an examination of why many people are troubled with the left's approach.
ID# 13070 -- 13070 -- Abolish the U.N.’s Palestinian Refugee Agency -- The relatively succinct overview of the many criticisms that are being leveled against UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East).
ID# 13073 -- 13073 -- Unleash the power of bipartisan NRC reform -- For those who recognize the importance of moving as rapidly as possible to limit carbon emissions, sensible proposals for improving our ability to take advantage of nuclear power.
ID# 13073 -- 13073 -- Unleash the power of bipartisan NRC reform -- For those who recognize the importance of moving as rapidly as possible to limit carbon emissions, sensible proposals for improving our ability to take advantage of nuclear power.
ID# 13074 -- 13074 -- American Politics is Bringing Us Down -- As we continue to fight about most everything, a reminder that it's the destructive nature of these fights (rather than the substantive issues involved) that pose the greatest threat.
ID# 13076 -- 13076 -- If Trump wins, he will destroy the American-led world order -- A reminder of the threat that President Trump's candidacy poses to the admittedly flawed "world order" that is still our best defense against aggressive authoritarianism.
ID# 13077 -- 13077 -- Chicken Littles Are Ruining America -- An in-depth look at the far-reaching implications of a culture that is so focused on apocalyptic threats that it fails to see the many positive aspects of society worth celebrating and defending.
ID# 13079 -- 13079 -- The Case Against UNRWA -- Congressional testimony from UN Watch explaining the many ways in which they believe that UNRWA has contributed to the intractability and destructiveness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
ID# 13080 -- 13080 -- UNRWA EDUCATION: REFORM OR REGRESSION? -- A detailed and thoroughly documented account of what UNRWA is accused of doing with its educational programs to undermine any sort of coexistence-based resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
ID# 13081 -- 13081 -- The Real Problem With American Universities -- For those who would like to see universities take effective steps to re-earn the public's trust, a systematic look at higher education's problems and possible solutions.
ID# 13082 -- 13082 -- Why America’s Richest Universities Are Protecting Hate-Filled Foreign Students -- A surprising look at the way in which DEI incentives have led universities to recruit (and profit from) rich foreign students (who are also allowed greater freedom of speech protections).
ID# 13083 -- 13083 -- A Biden Doctrine for the Middle East Is Forming. And It’s Big. -- A sympathetic look at President Biden's bold plan for ending the Israel/Hamas war, creating a Palestinian state (that doesn't threaten Israel), and building a grand Mideast coalition to counter Iran.
ID# 13086 -- 13086 -- Intellectual Hospitality -- An exploration of John Dewey's now radical idea -- intellectual hospitality, the welcoming of alternative views.
ID# 13089 -- 13089 -- Why Can’t Biden Move to the Center? -- For those wondering why Biden and the Democrats aren't reaching out to the many moderates who have been abandoned by Trump's swing to the right, an explanation.
ID# 13092 -- 13092 -- The Real AI Weapons Are Drones, Not Nukes -- A look at the areas in which artificial intelligence is most likely to have a near-term impact on the nature of war – autonomous, killer drones.
ID# 13093 -- 13093 -- The Two-State Delusion -- Before concluding that the way to resolve the Palestinian / Israeli conflict is by quickly moving to implement the "two state solution," consider this perceptive critique of the idea.
ID# 13094 -- 13094 -- Israel Palestine is not the root of Middle Eastern chaos -- A regional update on the larger, "larger context" surrounding the Israel Hamas war.
ID# 13095 -- 13095 -- The Two-Parent Privilege is Real -- A reminder of the many ways in which we could benefit from efforts to strengthen stable, two-parent families (and reflections about why we are unwilling to take such steps).
ID# 13100 -- 13100 -- Colleges Are Lying to Their Students -- For a time when colleges promise, but failed, to teach students how to think, a simple question that would improve all of our thinking: "What is the best argument of the other side?"
ID# 13101 -- 13101 -- A new global gender divide is emerging -- A stark look at ways in which the global trend toward demonizing men as oppressors is dividing men and women into sharply opposing political camps.
ID# 13102 -- 13102 -- The Case Against Content Moderation -- An essay that looks at ways in which increasingly moderating newsfeeds in an effort to control destructive information could make the problem worse, rather than better.
ID# 13103 -- 13103 -- Thinking the Unthinkable -- For a time when we prefer not to even think about the possibility of a global military conflagration, tough questions that, like it or not, demand consideration.
ID# 13103 -- 13103 -- Thinking the Unthinkable -- For a time when we prefer not to even think about the possibility of a global military conflagration, tough questions that, like it or not, demand consideration.
ID# 13104 -- 13104 -- Coleman Hughes: My Testimony on Reparations -- A critique of the case for reparations and a proposal for a more constructive way of dealing with the unrightable wrongs of the past and the many problems of the present.
ID# 13104 -- 13104 -- Coleman Hughes: My Testimony on Reparations -- A critique of the case for reparations and a proposal for a more constructive way of dealing with the unrightable wrongs of the past and the many problems of the present.
ID# 13104 -- 13104 -- Coleman Hughes: My Testimony on Reparations -- A critique of the case for reparations and a proposal for a more constructive way of dealing with the unrightable wrongs of the past and the many problems of the present.
ID# 13106 -- 13106 -- Fertility and Culture: A Deep Dive -- In-depth statistics about what may be one of the biggest threats to the sustainability of human society, the fertility crisis.
ID# 13107 -- 13107 -- Good Marriages Are Good. Bad Marriages Are, Well, Bad. -- A thought-provoking analysis of the many ways in which our confused way of thinking about marriage and family contributes to so many of society's problems.
ID# 13108 -- 13108 -- Niall Ferguson: The Treason of the Intellectuals -- Anyone who has a naive belief in the power of higher education to instill morality has not studied the history of German universities in the Third Reich.
ID# 13109 -- 13109 -- E.B. White’s Beautiful Letter to a Man Who Had Lost Faith in Humanity -- For difficult times, an important argument for not losing faith in our shared humanity.
ID# 13112 -- 13112 -- Arab-Israeli Solidarity: Defying Divisions in the Face of Terror -- A revealing story about how Israel's Arab citizens are responding to the ongoing war.
ID# 13113 -- 13113 -- This is Ethnic Cleansing -- A must-see tabulation of statistics regarding ethnic cleansing in the Middle East.
ID# 13114 -- 13114 -- If You Want To Liberate Your Land, You Cannot Keep Counting Martyrs – The Families In Gaza Are Not Complaining -- A revealing translation of what one Hamas official is saying about the war and, especially, the horrific casualties Gazans are suffering.
ID# 13115 -- 13115 -- What Do American Universities and Communist Political Systems Have in Common? -- A critical look at higher education that draws disturbing parallels between today's culture of higher education and communist regimes.
ID# 13118 -- 13118 -- Incompetent Elites Make Trump Look Appealing -- A big part of the reason why grassroots citizens are increasingly hostile toward society's elites -- those elites are failing to earn their lavish compensation.
ID# 13121 -- 13121 -- The male college crisis is not just in enrollment, but completion -- Statistics on the gigantic gender gap favoring women that has opened up in higher education -- a gap that, if it were reversed, would be causing considerable alarm.
ID# 13122 -- 13122 -- Color blindness remains the best form of antiracism -- An argument for the principal alternative to today's antiracism strategy -- one based on colorblindness.
ID# 13125 -- 13125 -- Only America Can Save the Future -- A partial antidote to today's pervasive pessimism -- an optimistic look at the United States' long-term strengths and prospects.
ID# 13130 -- 13130 -- The Grand Canyon-Sized Chasm Between Elites and Ordinary Americans -- The report on what is likely the United States' biggest and most consequential political divide -– the one that separates elites from the rest of society.
ID# 13137 -- 13137 -- The Weaponization of "Scientific Consensus" -- Another threat to the accuracy of our perceptions about the world we inhabit, "scientific" efforts to distort scientific findings.
ID# 13138 -- 13138 -- Rob Henderson: Social Class, Elite Virtue Signaling, and "Luxury Beliefs" -- An essay exploring the sociology of "luxury beliefs" and the way in which those beliefs signal status and virtue while undermining societal problem solving.
ID# 13145 -- 13145 -- Journalism's Ivory Towers -- A look at the the many ways in which increased reliance on college trained journalists is altering the nature of news coverage and undermining media trust.
ID# 13145 -- 13145 -- Journalism's Ivory Towers -- A look at the the many ways in which increased reliance on college trained journalists is altering the nature of news coverage and undermining media trust.
ID# 13147 -- 13147 -- Collision with Reality: What Depth Psychology Can Tell us About Victimhood Culture -- An exploration of the complex psychological issues that surround being victimized and thinking of oneself as a victim.
ID# 13147 -- 13147 -- Collision with Reality: What Depth Psychology Can Tell us About Victimhood Culture -- An exploration of the complex psychological issues that surround being victimized and thinking of oneself as a victim.
ID# 13149 -- 13149 -- Is Political Advertising Obsolete? -- An examination of the complexities of political communication that asks hard questions about the efficacy of ubiquitous political ads and whether other forms of persuasion might be more effective.
ID# 13149 -- 13149 -- Is Political Advertising Obsolete? -- An examination of the complexities of political communication that asks hard questions about the efficacy of ubiquitous political ads and whether other forms of persuasion might be more effective.
ID# 13150 -- 13150 -- "They see hiring Hamas terrorists as a mark of diversity" -- From an Israeli expert on UNRWA, an interview that explains the unusual nature of UN assistance for Palestinian refugees and how the nature of that assistance has contributed to the conflict's intractability.
ID# 13153 -- 13153 -- The GOP’s True Priority -- An article that tries to make sense of the collapse of one of the most promising bipartisan negotiations in recent years – the one that combined aid for Israel and Ukraine with border security measures.
ID# 13154 -- 13154 -- What I Wish More People Knew About American Evangelicalism -- For a time in which evangelicals are, especially on the left, widely demonized, an article that tries to explain the positive impact that this movement has had on the lives of so many people.
ID# 13154 -- 13154 -- What I Wish More People Knew About American Evangelicalism -- For a time in which evangelicals are, especially on the left, widely demonized, an article that tries to explain the positive impact that this movement has had on the lives of so many people.
ID# 13157 -- 13157 -- Meritocracy and Its Discontents -- A review and summary of two new books that delve into the debate over whether the meritocracy has had a positive or negative impact on society.
ID# 13157 -- 13157 -- Meritocracy and Its Discontents -- A review and summary of two new books that delve into the debate over whether the meritocracy has had a positive or negative impact on society.
ID# 13159 -- 13159 -- When It Comes to Dating, Ambition Might Matter More Than Politics -- More reflections on the tensions that are making it harder for men and women to form stable successful families.
ID# 13161 -- 13161 -- The For-Profit D.C. Firm Staging America’s ‘Grassroots’ Movements -- An astonishing window into the shady world in which "bad-faith" actors manipulate our politics and inflame (and, sometimes, generate) conflict and animosity.
ID# 13163 -- 13163 -- Trump Came for Their Party but Took Over Their Souls -- An analysis of the way in which Trumpism has completely supplanted the previous policy priorities of the Republican Party.
ID# 13164 -- 13164 -- Building the Palestinian State With Salam Fayyad -- An interview with the Palestinian leader who, perhaps more than anyone, tried to bring peace and prosperity to the West Bank.
ID# 13167 -- 13167 -- The problem with social media is that it exists at all -- A report on an interesting study that reveals that people would actually be willing to pay to remove social media from their lives and the lives of their friends.
ID# 13168 -- 13168 -- Breaking Down America’s Workforce -- A report on a detailed demographic analysis that reveals how very far we are from the ideal of "proportionate" representation of the various identity groups in the US workforce.
ID# 13170 -- 13170 -- How U.S. Cities Can Get Rid of Violent Crime -- With respect to urban crime, a case study showing how massively parallel problem-solving works in the real world.
ID# 13172 -- 13172 -- The Founders’ Guide to Happiness -- Thought-provoking reflections on happiness from somebody who is spent a great deal of time trying to understand what the United States' "founding fathers" thought of the subject.
ID# 13174 -- 13174 -- Interview: Sarah C. Paine -- A look at global history and the current geopolitical situation from the perspective of someone who has spent a career studying great power conflict.
ID# 13175 -- 13175 -- Why Israel Is Winning in Gaza -- This article offers what appears to be an authoritative account (from an Israeli perspective) of the military aspects of the ongoing war in Gaza.
ID# 13177 -- 13177 -- The Fraudulent Case Against ‘Violent Settlers’ -- A look at the larger context surrounding stories of Israeli settler violence on the West Bank and ongoing efforts to defend against Palestinian terrorism.
ID# 13181 -- 13181 -- Memo to the 'Experts': Stop Comparing Israel's War in Gaza to Anything. It Has No Precedent -- A comparison of the war in Gaza with other "similar" military campaigns and an argument that this war is, in many important respects, unprecedented in human history.
ID# 13183 -- 13183 -- What Americans don’t get about Israelis Fighting for their Lives -- From Israel, an attempt to correct some of the misperceptions that Americans have about the war.
ID# 13184 -- 13184 -- 'Not just for invading Galilee': Hezbollah's monstrous tunnel network -- A description of Hezbollah's much more formidable military capabilities in southern Lebanon (and a preview of what could be a much more devastating war).
ID# 13189 -- 13189 -- Ricardo Hausmann on How Economies Grow -- Positive-sum conflicts (in which the "pie" is constantly expanding) are much less divisive. This essay examines the economic growth that creates such situations.
ID# 13191 -- 13191 -- Coleman Hughes wants a colorblind America. So should we. -- An overview of the new book that offers what we see as a much more effective and much less divisive way of addressing racism and other forms of oppression.
ID# 13195 -- 13195 -- Apathy Loses -- If reasonable people disengage from politics, the zealots win. -- An appeal for moderates who can see both sides of today's complex issues to get more evolved in politics. Otherwise, our future will be determined by true believers who see no value in competing views.
ID# 13196 -- 13196 -- A Simple Theory for Why the Internet Is So Conspiratorial -- Food for thought for those trying to understand the role that the Internet is playing in promoting distrust and hatred.
ID# 13196 -- 13196 -- A Simple Theory for Why the Internet Is So Conspiratorial -- Food for thought for those trying to understand the role that the Internet is playing in promoting distrust and hatred.
ID# 13197 -- 13197 -- America's soft power isn't the problem -- A reminder that, in a world of increasingly aggressive and ruthless geopolitical actors, freedom, peace, and security depends upon much neglected hard power (as well as soft power).
ID# 13198 -- 13198 -- This Muslim Israeli Woman Is the Hope of the Middle East -- A moving interview with a prominent Israeli Arab newscaster describing what it's like to live on the boundary between two warring cultures.
ID# 13199 -- 13199 -- Security- what is it? -- Security is one of the fundamental human needs that has to be met for peacebuilding to be successful. This essay explores the concept.
ID# 13199 -- 13199 -- Security- what is it? -- Security is one of the fundamental human needs that has to be met for peacebuilding to be successful. This essay explores the concept.
ID# 13202 -- 13202 -- Chaos at the End of History -- From a broad historical perspective, a look at the origins of today's ever present hyper-polarization..
ID# 13211 -- 13211 -- Where are Our Jews? -- A critical look at the Israeli campaign in Gaza and, especially, plans for the invasion of Rafah.
ID# 13212 -- 13212 -- When I Was a Hostage -- From the Syrian civil war, a first-person account of what it's like to be captured and held hostage by Islamic terrorists.
ID# 13214 -- 13214 -- The Over-the-Top Epidemic -- An examination of the tendency of so many people in so many different contexts to act in extreme ways.
ID# 13219 -- 13219 -- The Meaning of the Super Bowl ‘He Gets Us’ Ad -- An exploration of the complex religious questions raised by the controversial Super Bowl ad and the importance of caring for the people with whom one disagrees.
ID# 13224 -- 13224 -- The Cure for What Ails Our Democracy -- From David Brooks, an insightful look at the virtues of pluralism and the dangers of monism -- the belief that one possesses the one true answer and that anyone who disagrees is evil.
ID# 13226 -- 13226 -- The Climate Fix Book Club, Chapter 9 & Full Book -- Links to a thoughtful series of articles (and an online book) that try to get beyond climate hysteria and focus on what, exactly, the science is telling us about how to most effectively address the problem.
ID# 13226 -- 13226 -- The Climate Fix Book Club, Chapter 9 & Full Book -- Links to a thoughtful series of articles (and an online book) that try to get beyond climate hysteria and focus on what, exactly, the science is telling us about how to most effectively address the problem.
ID# 13228 -- 13228 -- How to Disagree Better -- From the Atlantic, links to three articles outlining ways in which we can discuss controversial issues more constructively.
ID# 13228 -- 13228 -- How to Disagree Better -- From the Atlantic, links to three articles outlining ways in which we can discuss controversial issues more constructively.
ID# 13235 -- 13235 -- An Israeli and a Palestinian talk peace, dignity and safety -- An example of the kind of conversation that could, had it been sufficiently widespread, have averted the ongoing tragedy.
ID# 13236 -- 13236 -- Restoring the Past Won’t Liberate Palestine -- Reflections on the impossibility of rolling back the clock to the time before Israel's birth and the Nakba.
ID# 13243 -- 13243 -- The Most Important Writing Exercise I’ve Ever Assigned -- A simple and really creative writing assignment (or introspective thought experiment) that helps people see across the deepest of our political divides.
ID# 13259 -- 13259 -- The four kinds of truth America needs to pursue reconciliation -- An older article offering still valuable insights for those trying to figure out how it might be possible to reconcile the United States' deeply divided society.
ID# 13260 -- 13260 -- Women Wage Peace -- Another organization to add to Louis Kriesberg's list of the Israeli peace groups that are trying to struggle with the ongoing war.
ID# 13261 -- 13261 -- The Political Failure of Bidenomics -- A must-read article that explains why Biden's quite successful efforts to create economic opportunities for the working class is not translating into political support.
ID# 13263 -- 13263 -- The Americans Who Need Chaos -- An essay on political nihilism and the tendency of so many people to focus their attention on demonstrating to one another that their society is corrupt, dysfunctional, and worthless.
ID# 13264 -- 13264 -- The Strongest Case Against Donald Trump -- An observation that, on both the left and the right, President Trump seems remarkably adept at bringing out the darker side of our political personalities.
ID# 13266 -- 13266 -- On Putin's Reign Of Terror -- For a time when increasing numbers of people are starting to view Putin's Russia in more favorable ways, the short history of his increasingly brutal brand of authoritarianism.
ID# 13266 -- 13266 -- On Putin's Reign Of Terror -- For a time when increasing numbers of people are starting to view Putin's Russia in more favorable ways, the short history of his increasingly brutal brand of authoritarianism.
ID# 13267 -- 13267 -- Metaphors make the world -- A thought-provoking exploration of the role that metaphors play in helping us make sense of the world in which we live.
ID# 13270 -- 13270 -- President Bukele nukes a BBC reporter for criticizing his tough crime crackdown in El Salvador -- From the President of El Salvador, a complaint how western democracies are trying to impose their "solutions" on his country -- solutions that he thinks are unworkable.
ID# 13271 -- 13271 -- Who rules the UK, parliament or the mob? Intimidation over Gaza threatens British democracy -- More information about how threats of physical violence against Members of the British Parliament are influencing national policy (something that is starting to happen in the US).
ID# 13276 -- 13276 -- How Democrats Could Disqualify Trump If the Supreme Court Doesn’t -- A worrying article about how Supreme Court inaction could conceivably lead Democrats to refuse to certify a Trump victory on January 6.
ID# 13277 -- 13277 -- This is not a good way to fight racism in America -- A quite thoughtful essay on Google's new Gemini AI engine, its initial pro-diversity bias, and the dangers of thinking that there is a quick and easy solution to racism.
ID# 13279 -- 13279 -- How Did We End Up With Trump Again? -- From someone who spends much of her time listening to voters in in-depth focus groups, an explanation of why Donald Trump is on the verge of capturing the nomination.
ID# 13282 -- 13282 -- No, Most People in Gaza Are Not “Just Like Us” -- From an Israeli perspective, an article that that looks at the cultural differences between Palestinians and Israelis and questions the notion that everyone cares about the same things.
ID# 13284 -- 13284 -- The Founders’ antidote to demagoguery is a lesson for today -- A timely review of what the founders thought about how the new democracy they were creating could protect itself from future demagogues.
ID# 13284 -- 13284 -- The Founders’ antidote to demagoguery is a lesson for today -- A timely review of what the founders thought about how the new democracy they were creating could protect itself from future demagogues.
ID# 13287 -- 13287 -- We Are Too Good for DEI -- A thought-provoking essay exploring the relationship between "victimhood" and "agency."
ID# 13293 -- 13293 -- What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly? -- Amid the many calls to fear the threat posed by Christian Nationalism, serious exploration of what the term actually means.
ID# 13293 -- 13293 -- What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly? -- Amid the many calls to fear the threat posed by Christian Nationalism, serious exploration of what the term actually means.
ID# 13298 -- 13298 -- An Antidote to the Polarization Poison -- A fresh look at the threat posed by polarization along with proposals for better protecting ourselves.
ID# 13299 -- 13299 -- New technologies, new totalitarians -- An examination of the ways in which new technologies may be opening the door to a new kind of 21st-century totalitarianism.
ID# 13299 -- 13299 -- New technologies, new totalitarians -- An examination of the ways in which new technologies may be opening the door to a new kind of 21st-century totalitarianism.
ID# 13305 -- 13305 -- A Wild and Dangerous 2024 Experiment -- An update on "No Labels" and the possibility that they might field a moderate alternative candidate with a serious chance of becoming President.
ID# 13307 -- 13307 -- Equity, Equitist, Equitism -- An insightful new effort to clarify the conflict between the equity of the social justice movement and the egalitarianism of liberal democracy.
ID# 13310 -- 13310 -- The NYT Misrepresents the History of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict -- Our conflict over the Palestinian/Israeli conflict stems from competing images of objective reality. This article cites a description of one such image and then offers a critique with a competing image.
ID# 13314 -- 13314 -- Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play -- Insight into better ways of teaching children how to cope with a dangerous and uncertain world in which things will often not go their way.
ID# 13315 -- 13315 -- Confirmation Bias: A Bayesian Interpretation -- More insight into the mechanisms that drive cognitive biases and undermine the accuracy of the images that we have of the social environment in which we live.
ID# 13316 -- 13316 -- The Red-Blue Divide Goes Well Beyond Biden and Trump -- It's not just Trump and Biden -- the divisions that are tearing apart the United States are far deeper than any political personality.
ID# 13318 -- 13318 -- Fix the Insurrection Act Before a Trump Inauguration -- An urgent plea to strengthen the resilience of US democracy by closing a legal loophole that could allow an unscrupulous President to use the military to suppress political opposition.
ID# 13320 -- 13320 -- Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why? -- An analysis of the ways in which the religious beliefs of US citizens have changed in recent decades and the political implications of those changes.
ID# 13322 -- 13322 -- "Gendered" Nonsense Is Dangerous Nonsense -- From a conservative perspective, alarm about the Biden administration's efforts to promote its internationally controversial gender ideology at a time when immediate threats to peace seem everywhere.
ID# 13323 -- 13323 -- Only More Attacks Like October 7 Will Restrain It; The Conflict Will End Only With Disappearance Of Israel -- From the Qatari press, another perspective on what it will take to end the Israel/Hamas war -- the destruction of Israel.
ID# 13324 -- 13324 -- Moderate Republicans Continue to Betray Their Principles -- A description of how the hyper-polarization process has now almost totally unified Republicans behind former President Trump.
ID# 13324 -- 13324 -- Moderate Republicans Continue to Betray Their Principles -- A description of how the hyper-polarization process has now almost totally unified Republicans behind former President Trump.
ID# 13330 -- 13330 -- The Psychology of Progressive Hostility -- An examination of the complex psychological dynamics that have unified the left around their own set of political and social orthodoxies.
ID# 13331 -- 13331 -- Overcoming digital threats to democracy -- A report outlining the ways in which the tools of deliberative democracy could be used to better govern information technologies and help protect the larger society.
ID# 13331 -- 13331 -- Overcoming digital threats to democracy -- A report outlining the ways in which the tools of deliberative democracy could be used to better govern information technologies and help protect the larger society.
ID# 13334 -- 13334 -- Against Democrats’ “What, Me Worry?” Approach to Losing Working Class Voters -- Thoughts on the folly and potentially far-reaching implications of the Democrats tendency to write off so many working-class voters.
ID# 13335 -- 13335 -- What I Learned When I Read 887 Pages of Plans for Trump’s Second Term -- For those who do not want to read the almost 900 page report on plans for a coming Trump administration, a New York Times quick overview.
ID# 13336 -- 13336 -- Mandate for Leadership -- The Conservative Promise -- An almost 900 page report on things that a high level group of Trump supporters are hoping that they might be able to accomplish during a second Trump Presidency.
ID# 13337 -- 13337 -- Why Authoritarians Like Saddam Hussein Confound U.S. Presidents -- Based in part on detailed recordings now available of Saddam Hussein's decision-making process –- a look at why the United States has so much trouble dealing with dictators.
ID# 13337 -- 13337 -- Why Authoritarians Like Saddam Hussein Confound U.S. Presidents -- Based in part on detailed recordings now available of Saddam Hussein's decision-making process –- a look at why the United States has so much trouble dealing with dictators.
ID# 13339 -- 13339 -- The World May Be Entering a Much Bloodier Era -- News that our gut level impression that the world is rapidly spinning out of control is, unfortunately, backed up by solid data.
ID# 13340 -- 13340 -- Scientists get closer to solving chemical puzzle of the origin of life -- For a time when most everyone seems bogged down in the immediate political crisis, a chance to reflect on one of life's really big questions – how we came to be.
ID# 13343 -- 13343 -- Political Corruption And Taxpayer Money Behind Google Disinformation And Censorship -- From a more conservative perspective, more insight into the delicate balance between desirable efforts to limit destructive disinformation and undesirable efforts to suppress opposing political views.
ID# 13343 -- 13343 -- Political Corruption And Taxpayer Money Behind Google Disinformation And Censorship -- From a more conservative perspective, more insight into the delicate balance between desirable efforts to limit destructive disinformation and undesirable efforts to suppress opposing political views.
ID# 13343 -- 13343 -- Political Corruption And Taxpayer Money Behind Google Disinformation And Censorship -- From a more conservative perspective, more insight into the delicate balance between desirable efforts to limit destructive disinformation and undesirable efforts to suppress opposing political views.
ID# 13346 -- 13346 -- What It Means to Choose Freedom -- A superb lecture that explains how the current crisis facing the Jewish people is deeply intertwined with the larger effort to preserve democratic freedoms.
ID# 13348 -- 13348 -- Israel Is Falling Into an Abyss -- A look at the far-reaching effects that the all-out war between Israel and Hamas is having on Israeli society.
ID# 13349 -- 13349 -- Google's Brave New Woke-AF World -- A critical look at the very real possibility that a progressive political agenda will wind up driving the AI revolution that will remake how we know most everything about ourselves.
ID# 13349 -- 13349 -- Google's Brave New Woke-AF World -- A critical look at the very real possibility that a progressive political agenda will wind up driving the AI revolution that will remake how we know most everything about ourselves.
ID# 13352 -- 13352 -- The Age of Amorality -- A look at one of the most difficult questions facing liberal democracies -- the need to use illiberal means to defend those democracies.
ID# 13353 -- 13353 -- The Prophets: Marshall McLuhan -- For a time when new communication technologies are reshaping everything we thought we knew, a look back at the insights of Marshall McLuhan, the man who struggled with an earlier information revolution.
ID# 13353 -- 13353 -- The Prophets: Marshall McLuhan -- For a time when new communication technologies are reshaping everything we thought we knew, a look back at the insights of Marshall McLuhan, the man who struggled with an earlier information revolution.
ID# 13354 -- 13354 -- Sweden is joining Nato, but it’s hopelessly unprepared for war -- A profile of Sweden – a country that took peace and security for granted and is now waking up to the very real threats which are now emerging.
ID# 13357 -- 13357 -- Britain, Islamism and the Forgotten Lessons of Appeasement -- Look at how violence and the threat of violence is affecting British parliamentary debate in ways that raise the specter of a successful January 6-style insurrection.
ID# 13363 -- 13363 -- Horseshoe Politics -- We should all understand the meaning and implications of the phrase "horseshoe politics" and its observation that political extremes tend to converge on one another.
ID# 13365 -- 13365 -- The Justice of Israel’s War in Gaza Will Depend on How It Ends -- A thoughtful observation that the morality of Israel's war in Gaza will ultimately be judged by what happens after the war.
ID# 13366 -- 13366 -- The Law of Group Polarization -- A more academic and scientific exploration of the dynamics that drive polarization -- dynamics that we have to find better ways of limiting.
ID# 13367 -- 13367 -- The Religion of Workism Is Making Americans Miserable -- Reflections on what happens to elites when they view their profession as the central focus of their lives (and how that makes them different from the working classes).
ID# 13368 -- 13368 -- How to Tackle Truth Decay -- Thoughts about what to do about a world in which sources of objective truth have almost completely disappeared.
ID# 13369 -- 13369 -- Rediscovering the Meaning of Diversity: Lessons from Generation X -- From those younger than baby boomers, but old enough to have a sense of history, reflections on the successes that we have had in building a more diverse society.
ID# 13374 -- 13374 -- The Backlash in Deep-Blue America -- For progressives who can't quite see how anyone could disagree with their worldview, news that they are nowhere near as persuasive as they would like to think.
ID# 13376 -- 13376 -- Twelve Communication Traps Democrats and Progressives Must Avoid -- From a democratic perspective, insightful look at the complexities of political psychology and communication.
ID# 13376 -- 13376 -- Twelve Communication Traps Democrats and Progressives Must Avoid -- From a democratic perspective, insightful look at the complexities of political psychology and communication.
ID# 13378 -- 13378 -- The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending -- An excellent and thought provoking essay exploring how the ongoing war in Gaza and the global rise of antisemitism is transforming the lives of Jews in the United States.
ID# 13380 -- 13380 -- An Introduction: It’s Time to Protest Nuclear War Again -- A refresher course for those who may have forgotten (or never knew) how seriously we ought to take the threat of nuclear war.
ID# 13385 -- 13385 -- Is Global Climate Policy Working? -- If you really care about the climate (and you should), you ought to be asking hard questions like this about whether current policies are actually working.
ID# 13385 -- 13385 -- Is Global Climate Policy Working? -- If you really care about the climate (and you should), you ought to be asking hard questions like this about whether current policies are actually working.
ID# 13387 -- 13387 -- Defending the status quo is not environmentalism -- A reminder that the banana syndrome (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything) can't successfully protect the environment.
ID# 13387 -- 13387 -- Defending the status quo is not environmentalism -- A reminder that the banana syndrome (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything) can't successfully protect the environment.
ID# 13393 -- 13393 -- Iraq’s Twenty Years of Carnage -- As we agonize over the human costs of the war in Gaza, a timely reflection on the human costs of the US invasion of Iraq.
ID# 13397 -- 13397 -- Cosmopolis or Bust? -- An article offering a vision about how today's diverse, cosmopolitan cities can effectively function despite deep differences.
ID# 13402 -- 13402 -- Let AI remake the whole U.S. government (oh, and save the country) -- A rare and hopeful article about the ways in which AI could be used to increase the trustworthiness of governmental institutions -- with at least one real-world precedent.
ID# 13402 -- 13402 -- Let AI remake the whole U.S. government (oh, and save the country) -- A rare and hopeful article about the ways in which AI could be used to increase the trustworthiness of governmental institutions -- with at least one real-world precedent.
ID# 13402 -- 13402 -- Let AI remake the whole U.S. government (oh, and save the country) -- A rare and hopeful article about the ways in which AI could be used to increase the trustworthiness of governmental institutions -- with at least one real-world precedent.
ID# 13403 -- 13403 -- Preach What You Practice: Charles Murray on Our New Class Divide: Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 -- A report on a pretty persuasive conservative strategy for limiting inequality from Charles Murray -- one of the first to highlight the class tensions that would give rise to Donald Trump.
ID# 13406 -- 13406 -- Most News Aggregators Biased to the Left, including Google, Apple, Bing: AllSides Analysis -- A report on a systematic assessment of the biases associated with popular news aggregators.
ID# 13411 -- 13411 -- The Nonwhite Working Class Bails Out on the Democrats -- More on the political implications of the gigantic culture gap that exists between college-educated elites and the working classes.
ID# 13412 -- 13412 -- Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power -- Startling statistics about how much energy AI is going to consume and how that is likely to affect our efforts to move away from fossil fuels.
ID# 13412 -- 13412 -- Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power -- Startling statistics about how much energy AI is going to consume and how that is likely to affect our efforts to move away from fossil fuels.
ID# 13413 -- 13413 -- How political contempt helps blow up deals and amplifies gridlock -- If we think our “enemies” like something, we’ll be predisposed to not like it. And we disincentivize red/blue collaboration because we don't want to "help" our enemies. So we get gridlock.
ID# 13413 -- 13413 -- How political contempt helps blow up deals and amplifies gridlock -- If we think our “enemies” like something, we’ll be predisposed to not like it. And we disincentivize red/blue collaboration because we don't want to "help" our enemies. So we get gridlock.
ID# 13414 -- 13414 -- Learnings and Insights from Stepping Into Systems -- Introduction to a film series which invites viewers to get started on their systems-learning journey, covering fundamental systems change topics amd (re)awakeing a felt sense of knowing the world as systemic.
ID# 13416 -- 13416 -- Equal opportunity rage farming -- Stretching the truth to arouse ire isn't just a tactic of the right; the left does it too. This short article appears toward the end of Better Conflict Bulletin's Feb. 22, 2024 Newsletter.
ID# 13416 -- 13416 -- Equal opportunity rage farming -- Stretching the truth to arouse ire isn't just a tactic of the right; the left does it too. This short article appears toward the end of Better Conflict Bulletin's Feb. 22, 2024 Newsletter.
ID# 13418 -- 13418 -- Our divided nation will fall unless we return to American pragmatism -- Our country is disturbingly polarized, and the future of our republic is at stake if we don’t change course ... and soon. This long-time civil servant observes that we are our own worst enemy.
ID# 13423 -- 13423 -- Contact Theory with No Contact: Facilitating Dialogue Online -- An examination of the degree to which online dialogue can overcome impressions of difference without in-person contact.
ID# 13423 -- 13423 -- Contact Theory with No Contact: Facilitating Dialogue Online -- An examination of the degree to which online dialogue can overcome impressions of difference without in-person contact.
ID# 13424 -- 13424 -- How Can We Effectively Use Evidence in Peacebuilding Project Design? | ConnexUs Thursday Talk Recording -- This webinar shared findings from research examining the role of evidence in shaping & improving peacebuilding initiatives, and USIP shared what they are doing to integrate the findings into their own programming.
ID# 13425 -- 13425 -- When Transitional Justice Met Narrative Change Theory -- An exploration of the similarities and differences between these two fields, and how, if combined, they can bring out the best of both for more meaningful change.
ID# 13447 -- 13447 -- Peacebuilding Starts at Home -- A new Alliance for Peacebuilding initiative intended to educate and raise awareness about the drivers of instability and conflict in the U.S. and responses to that.
ID# 13448 -- 13448 -- Do you keep your agreements? -- Anne Leslie explains why keeping our agreements, no matter how small, has important ramifications for our relationships, demonstrating respect and trustworthiness that are hard to replace once broken.
ID# 13451 -- 13451 -- National Endowment for Democracy -- The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.
ID# 13454 -- 13454 -- Oasis of Peace Winter 2023 Newsletter -- From Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, on how they are dealing with the war and trying to move both themselves and the prospect of peace forward.
ID# 13455 -- 13455 -- The 2023 ABA Frank Sander Award: The House Select Committee on Modernization of Congress -- Bruce Patton talks with the Co-Chairs of the Select Committee about what they did to try to make Congress more effective, and reflect on what's working and what is not.
ID# 13455 -- 13455 -- The 2023 ABA Frank Sander Award: The House Select Committee on Modernization of Congress -- Bruce Patton talks with the Co-Chairs of the Select Committee about what they did to try to make Congress more effective, and reflect on what's working and what is not.
ID# 13455 -- 13455 -- The 2023 ABA Frank Sander Award: The House Select Committee on Modernization of Congress -- Bruce Patton talks with the Co-Chairs of the Select Committee about what they did to try to make Congress more effective, and reflect on what's working and what is not.
ID# 13456 -- 13456 -- Difficult Conversations About Israel and Gaza -- Suggestions from the dialogue experts, Essential Partners, about how to have a constructive conversation about one of the most divisive issues many of us currently face.
ID# 13458 -- 13458 -- An End-of-Year Letter from AFP's Executive Director, Liz Hume -- This letter contains an impressive list of all of AfP's activities over the last year with many links for more details about each of them.
ID# 13459 -- 13459 -- Imagination Activism | Phoebe Tickell -- An interview with the founder of Moral Imaginations on the role of imagination in activism, the universality of values in human culture, and the crisis of imagination within the current system.
ID# 13460 -- 13460 -- Israel-Hamas Conflict Puts Spotlight on American Universities -- An AllSides "story of the week," this article looks at the way the media is covering the Israel-Hamas conflict on campuses. Needless to say, there are significant differences.
ID# 13462 -- 13462 -- Asking people to “do the research” on fake news stories makes them seem more believable, not less -- A new study asked thousands to evaluate the accuracy of news articles — both real and fake — by doing some research online. But for many, heading to Google led them farther from the truth, not closer.
ID# 13462 -- 13462 -- Asking people to “do the research” on fake news stories makes them seem more believable, not less -- A new study asked thousands to evaluate the accuracy of news articles — both real and fake — by doing some research online. But for many, heading to Google led them farther from the truth, not closer.
ID# 13463 -- 13463 -- Democracy 2076 -- Democracy 2076 is developing a vision for a new U.S. constitution which would ensure an effective, responsive, and representative democracy.
ID# 13463 -- 13463 -- Democracy 2076 -- Democracy 2076 is developing a vision for a new U.S. constitution which would ensure an effective, responsive, and representative democracy.
ID# 13463 -- 13463 -- Democracy 2076 -- Democracy 2076 is developing a vision for a new U.S. constitution which would ensure an effective, responsive, and representative democracy.
ID# 13464 -- 13464 -- Women's Power Collaborative -- The only national-level body dedicated to achieving a gender-balanced democracy by networking, strategizing, resource-sharing and helping women run for office.
ID# 13464 -- 13464 -- Women's Power Collaborative -- The only national-level body dedicated to achieving a gender-balanced democracy by networking, strategizing, resource-sharing and helping women run for office.
ID# 13465 -- 13465 -- Resolutionaries -- Resolutionaries is an organization dedicated to bringing Americans together. Our goal is to shift the current paradigm — from fighting over our problems to working together to solve them.
ID# 13465 -- 13465 -- Resolutionaries -- Resolutionaries is an organization dedicated to bringing Americans together. Our goal is to shift the current paradigm — from fighting over our problems to working together to solve them.
ID# 13466 -- 13466 -- Interfaith America -- Interfaith America inspires, equips, and connects leaders and institutions to unlock the potential of America’s religious diversity
ID# 13467 -- 13467 -- Issue One: Fix Democracy First -- We unite Republicans, Democrats, and independents in the movement to fix our broken political system and build an inclusive democracy that works for everyone.
ID# 13467 -- 13467 -- Issue One: Fix Democracy First -- We unite Republicans, Democrats, and independents in the movement to fix our broken political system and build an inclusive democracy that works for everyone.
ID# 13468 -- 13468 -- Center for American Progress -- 0
ID# 13469 -- 13469 -- America's Healthy Democracy Ecosystem -- 0
ID# 13470 -- 13470 -- Civic Bell -- 0
ID# 13471 -- 13471 -- Public Democracy America. -- 0
ID# 13472 -- 13472 -- American Future -- 0
ID# 13473 -- 13473 -- CSU Center for Public Deliberation -- Our aim is to improve the way our community is able to talk through complex issues so that we can arrive at better decisions. CPD provides the space, good information, and skilled facilitation to facilitate such collaborative decision making.
ID# 13473 -- 13473 -- CSU Center for Public Deliberation -- Our aim is to improve the way our community is able to talk through complex issues so that we can arrive at better decisions. CPD provides the space, good information, and skilled facilitation to facilitate such collaborative decision making.
ID# 13474 -- 13474 -- Solutions Journalism Network February 1 Newsletter on Complexity -- Complexity is actually a key to unlocking freedom — and here are three examples of how and why that is true.
ID# 13475 -- 13475 -- Network Failures: 2023 Edition -- From Network Weaver, a reflection on things they tried in 2023 that didn't work as planned--and what they are doing in 2024 to fill those gaps. These ideas have broader applicability for other networkers!
ID# 13478 -- 13478 -- Mapping America's Healthy Democracy Ecosystem -- A webinar put out by All-America City, looking at "promising practices" for protecting democracy.
ID# 13480 -- 13480 -- Through a distorted lens: How perceptions of the “other side” drive toxic division -- Toxic polarization is a large, complex problem with many factors. But one thing we can all do to reduce it is examine our role in the equation. Making our culture less toxic starts with us.
ID# 13481 -- 13481 -- Israel and Gaza: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow -- The destruction of the military threat posed by Hamas is a necessary condition for re-establishing some sort of a peace in the Israel-Palestine conflict, but Israel must reign in its most extreme factions too.
ID# 13482 -- 13482 -- NEW WAY INTERVIEW: Katherine Gehl -- The business leader, innovator, thinker, do-er and reformer on what she's learned and what we need to fix America democracy.
ID# 13485 -- 13485 -- What's the end game of a New Way in our politics? -- Our task is to find and grow a new generation and community of leaders who seek the most good for the most people in the most expansive and gracious ways we can imagine.
ID# 13486 -- 13486 -- Evolving Strategy In Complexity -- For organizations which are overwhelmed, over-processing, and still need a plan to win, 11 ideas of how to develop an approach that makes sense.
ID# 13487 -- 13487 -- Search for Common Ground & United Nations Announce an Innovative Partnership for Humanitarian Diplomacy -- This partnership will enable the UN and Search to save lives and address the conflict drivers that create crises in the first place. The hope is this partnership will serve as a model for other such efforts.
ID# 13488 -- 13488 -- Toxic polarization fractures our relationships — even with our political peers -- The contempt arising from toxic polarization makes us less able to do the basic work of politics. There is an urgent need to see value in engaging in civil, respectful ways, even with people we see as wrong.
ID# 13488 -- 13488 -- Toxic polarization fractures our relationships — even with our political peers -- The contempt arising from toxic polarization makes us less able to do the basic work of politics. There is an urgent need to see value in engaging in civil, respectful ways, even with people we see as wrong.
ID# 13489 -- 13489 -- Beliefs and Mindsets -- Beliefs are called mindsets when they filter how we make sense of the world and ourselves. Mindsets act on our choice of goals and goal-pursuit behaviors, which significantly affect our lives.
ID# 13490 -- 13490 -- Ten Take-Aways on Russia’s War and Five Ideas for the Future of Ukraine and Beyond -- To end suffering and destruction, it is necessary to think about pathways to peace. Here are the ten key results of the war and five ideas for a possible way out.
ID# 13491 -- 13491 -- Civil Rights: A Most Righteous Hangover -- Ashok Panikkar's reflections on how we took away the wrong lessons from US Civil Rights Movement, which has now contributed to the weakening of minority rights and Western democracies over the last few decades.
ID# 13492 -- 13492 -- Sources of Wisdom -- From the Co-Intelligence Institute's Wise Democracy Project. They suggest ways to comprehend a bigger picture – that can help us think about how to incorporate more wisdom into our governance processes.
ID# 13493 -- 13493 -- The Plurality Institute -- The Plurality Institute is building an ecosystem to push boundaries to reimagine collaborative frameworks. They serve as a hub for academics, industry researchers, practitioners, and leaders from both civil and governmental sectors
ID# 13494 -- 13494 -- Co-Intelligence Institute Writing and Blog -- Focusing on Intelligence, wholeness, systems, complexity, process and participation. Lots of stuff here!
ID# 13495 -- 13495 -- Pluralism, Plurality, and the Generation of Collective Wisdom -- Ideas about how the generation of collective wisdom can enhance the work of the New Pluralists and others interested in escaping the destructive hyper-polarization and stagnation.
ID# 13496 -- 13496 -- Faces of Democracy -- A campaign of election officials and poll workers to strengthen U.S. elections
ID# 13497 -- 13497 -- U.S. fails to improve its standing in fight against corruption -- “Despite important strides taken by this Congress and this Administration to combat transnational corruption, it is clear more needs to be done to curtail corruption in the U.S.
ID# 13498 -- 13498 -- Americans’ Views on Protecting and Improving Our Democracy -- Key findings from a national survey of 1,005 registered voters Conducted December 21-24, 2023, conduced by Hart Research for More Perfect.
ID# 13499 -- 13499 -- How We Could Lose Our Democracy -- We prepare for disasters by understanding how they could happen.
ID# 13501 -- 13501 -- Toda Peace Institute's Global Outlook: March 2024 -- This issue has articles on the Korean Peninsula, New Zealand's landmark decision on climate, COP 28, and the most worrying international conflicts.
ID# 13502 -- 13502 -- Federation for Innovation in Democracy: Europe -- FIDE teaches people how to design and run citizen assemblies on various topics at the local level. While starting in Europe, there is now a FIDE in North America as well (fide.eu/north-america).
ID# 13502 -- 13502 -- Federation for Innovation in Democracy: Europe -- FIDE teaches people how to design and run citizen assemblies on various topics at the local level. While starting in Europe, there is now a FIDE in North America as well (fide.eu/north-america).
ID# 13503 -- 13503 -- Citizen Assemblies: An Interview with Marjan Ehsassi -- Civic Genius interviewed Marjan Ehsassi, the founder of FIDE North America about what citizen assemblies are and how they work, and how FIDE hopes to develop them in North America.
ID# 13504 -- 13504 -- Essential Resources to Combat 2024 Election Polarization -- Essential Partners' free election resources are designed to interrupt partisan polarization where people live, work, worship and learn, with lessons, tools, and conversation guides.
ID# 13507 -- 13507 -- Changing Mindsets -- From Lamar Roth and Tom Klaus, an essay on how one changes what they call "mindsets," and what we'd call "frames" --beliefs that filter how we make sense of the world and ourselves.
ID# 13522 -- 13522 -- American Autocracy Threat Tracker -- A comprehensive catalog based on Donald Trump and his associates’ plans, Promises, and propositions based on Heritage Foundation’s 2025 Presidential Transition Project (Project 2025) and Trump's own words.
ID# 13524 -- 13524 -- 3 Ways to Make Conflict Less Destructive -- From Bill Ury, one of the biggest names in the conflict resolution field, his thoughts on things we can do to escape spirals of destructive conflict.
ID# 13525 -- 13525 -- First Principles -- The newsletter of Common Sense 250, this issue proposes a new political coalition in the U.S. based on "first principles" that are supportive of the Constitution. This issue lists what those are.
ID# 13526 -- 13526 -- Knowledge Sharing for Collective Growth -- A video of a conversation with longtime "network weaver" June Holley talking about conflict transformation, learning communities, network and knowledge weaving, and self organizing for productive change.
ID# 13527 -- 13527 -- The Most Engaged Are The Most Partisan. Now What? -- The most educated, most engaged citizens are the most partisan. Today's biggest threat to democracy is a poisonous cocktail of othering, aversion and moralization.
ID# 13528 -- 13528 -- True or False? Political Passion Is at Odds with Depolarization -- One can work toward any political goal while trying to reduce toxic polarization. In fact, taking less polarizing approaches can aid one’s political activism.
ID# 13528 -- 13528 -- True or False? Political Passion Is at Odds with Depolarization -- One can work toward any political goal while trying to reduce toxic polarization. In fact, taking less polarizing approaches can aid one’s political activism.
ID# 13529 -- 13529 -- Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century -- A report by the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship on how we can work together, instead of against each other to achieve a true democracy.
ID# 13530 -- 13530 -- The Day After Violence, The World Needs You. -- Shamil Idriss is visiting Israel and reporting on the work that Search for Common Ground teams are doing in the West Bank and Gaza.
ID# 13531 -- 13531 -- Is the current world order a clash of ideologies: Liberal Dictatorship vs. a Pluralism of Traditions? -- This article suggests that the current world order is characterized by a clash of ideologies: on one side, a perceived liberal dictatorship, and on the other, a call for a pluralism of traditions.
ID# 13532 -- 13532 -- The Climate Emergency, Conflict and Peace -- Part of the Toda Peace Institute's Peace Seminar Series. Dr. Volker Boege discusses why it is important for peace research and practice to engage with the climate crisis.
ID# 13533 -- 13533 -- How Contempt Destroys Democracy -- Zach Elwood is distributing his second ebook free to subscribers to his substack: Defusing American Anger: A Depolarization Endeavor. This is a "pre-release" but he's eager for comments.
ID# 13534 -- 13534 -- 6 Steps for Mending a Politically Strained Relationship -- 1/5 of all Americans say politics has harmed a close relationship. If you are one of them, here are six steps you can take to repair the damage and restore the friendship.
ID# 13534 -- 13534 -- 6 Steps for Mending a Politically Strained Relationship -- 1/5 of all Americans say politics has harmed a close relationship. If you are one of them, here are six steps you can take to repair the damage and restore the friendship.
ID# 13535 -- 13535 -- What is the Building Civic Bridges Act and Why Support it? -- A set of essays from conflict resolvers, advocates, a retired four-star general, an educator, a business leader, and others about why the Building Civic Briedges Act is so important.
ID# 13538 -- 13538 -- Is a US news ‘nexit’ underway, and how can we stop it? -- Benjamin Klutsey, director of the Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange at George Mason University' writes in the Hill about how to be a more thoughtful consumer of the news.
ID# 13539 -- 13539 -- Nuclear War Impacts on Distant, Non-Combatant Countries -- An investigation on the multiple impacts New Zealand might face if nuclear weapons are used elsewhere. Though the risks are substantial, New Zealand and other noncombatants can make changes now to become less vulnerable.
ID# 13540 -- 13540 -- Fund for Peace -- FFP works with partners at the local, national and international levels to develop mechanisms for timely and effective conflict early warning and preventative response. They run the Fragile States Index and the State Resilience Index
ID# 13541 -- 13541 -- Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) -- ACLED is a data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project. It collects information on the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world.
ID# 13542 -- 13542 -- VIEWS: The Violence and Impacts Early Warning System -- VIEWS is a conflict prediction system that generates monthly forecasts for violent conflicts across the world up to three years in advance.
ID# 13543 -- 13543 -- Carnegie Europe -- A trusted source for European foreign and security policy analysis, Carnegie Europe delivers independent insights and interdisciplinary expertise that bring together national, regional, and global perspectives.
ID# 13544 -- 13544 -- The Global Zeitenwende: How to Avoid a New Cold War in a Multipolar Era -- The world is facing an epochal tectonic shift. Russia’s war against Ukraine has has ended an era. In this new multipolar world, different countries and models of government are competing for power and influence.
ID# 13545 -- 13545 -- The Age of Amorality: Can America Save the Liberal Order Through Illiberal Means? -- How much evil we must do in order to do good? It is among the most vexing dilemmas facing the United States today.
ID# 13546 -- 13546 -- Democracy First -- Founded in 2021 to confront the anti-democracy movement in America, our mission is to preserve the future of free and fair elections and the American exceptionalism they make possible.
ID# 13547 -- 13547 -- International IDEA -- International IDEA is an intergovernmental organization with a mandate to support sustainable democracy worldwide. We work with local communities, democracy practitioners and partner organizations all over the world.
ID# 13548 -- 13548 -- Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) -- V-Dem provides a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections.
ID# 13549 -- 13549 -- Toda Peace Institute's Global Challenges to Democracy Program -- This program aims to deepen our understanding of the internal and external threats and challenges to democracy worldwide and to identify ways in which democratic institutions can be strengthened and made more resilient.
ID# 13550 -- 13550 -- National Governors Association's Disagree Better Initiative -- The Disagree Better initiative will look at the problems of polarization, elevate the solutions that groups around the country are already implementing, and feature Governors showing what disagreeing better looks like.
ID# 13550 -- 13550 -- National Governors Association's Disagree Better Initiative -- The Disagree Better initiative will look at the problems of polarization, elevate the solutions that groups around the country are already implementing, and feature Governors showing what disagreeing better looks like.
ID# 13550 -- 13550 -- National Governors Association's Disagree Better Initiative -- The Disagree Better initiative will look at the problems of polarization, elevate the solutions that groups around the country are already implementing, and feature Governors showing what disagreeing better looks like.
ID# 13551 -- 13551 -- The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It -- An insightful book by Yascha Mounk on threats to democracy in the U.S., and what might be done to address them.
ID# 13552 -- 13552 -- Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism -- Anne Applebuam offers an expert guide to understanding the appeal of the strongman as leaders and an explanation for why authoritarianism is back with a menacing twenty-first century twist.
ID# 13553 -- 13553 -- Why We're Polarized -- Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means for our future--from journalist, political commentator, and cofounder of Vox, Ezra Klein.
ID# 13554 -- 13554 -- How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them -- Most of us don't know it, but we are living in the world's greatest era of civil wars. While violence has declined worldwide, civil wars have increased. This book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them.
ID# 13555 -- 13555 -- Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy -- Examining how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama looks at the French Revolution, the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics
ID# 13556 -- 13556 -- Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence: Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association -- This division encourages psychological and multidisciplinary research, education and training on peace, nonviolent conflict resolution, reconciliation, and the causes, consequences and prevention of violence and destructive conflict.
ID# 13556 -- 13556 -- Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence: Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association -- This division encourages psychological and multidisciplinary research, education and training on peace, nonviolent conflict resolution, reconciliation, and the causes, consequences and prevention of violence and destructive conflict.
ID# 13558 -- 13558 -- George Lakoff -- George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist has done a lot of work relating to political persuasion and messaging in classic books such as "Don't Think of an Elephant and Moral Politics.
ID# 13559 -- 13559 -- Ad Fontes Media -- Ad Fontes Media is a public benefit corporation with a stated public mission, which is to rate all the news to positively transform society. Fundamentally, we want to help bring people together.
ID# 13559 -- 13559 -- Ad Fontes Media -- Ad Fontes Media is a public benefit corporation with a stated public mission, which is to rate all the news to positively transform society. Fundamentally, we want to help bring people together.
ID# 13559 -- 13559 -- Ad Fontes Media -- Ad Fontes Media is a public benefit corporation with a stated public mission, which is to rate all the news to positively transform society. Fundamentally, we want to help bring people together.
ID# 13560 -- 13560 -- The Solutions Journalism Network -- SJN is leading a global shift in journalism focused on advancing rigorous reporting about how people are trying to solve problems and what we can learn from their successes and failures
ID# 13560 -- 13560 -- The Solutions Journalism Network -- SJN is leading a global shift in journalism focused on advancing rigorous reporting about how people are trying to solve problems and what we can learn from their successes and failures
ID# 13560 -- 13560 -- The Solutions Journalism Network -- SJN is leading a global shift in journalism focused on advancing rigorous reporting about how people are trying to solve problems and what we can learn from their successes and failures
ID# 13561 -- 13561 -- What's the best strategy for reducing toxic divides? Cultural change or systemic change? -- Zach Elwood talks with David Foster of Know the System.org about ways we can change the media environment to improve political discourse and decrease toxic polarization.
ID# 13562 -- 13562 -- Election Reformers Network -- Election Reformers Network aims to end partisan and insider control over elections. Favoring neither the left nor the right, we lead a U.S. movement to ensure that country comes first, not party.
ID# 13563 -- 13563 -- Global Fragility Act Coalition -- A coalition of 100 peacebuilding, development, humanitarian, and faith organizations, led by the Alliance for Peacebuilding and Mercy Corp to help the U.S. administration to successfully implement the GFA.
ID# 13563 -- 13563 -- Global Fragility Act Coalition -- A coalition of 100 peacebuilding, development, humanitarian, and faith organizations, led by the Alliance for Peacebuilding and Mercy Corp to help the U.S. administration to successfully implement the GFA.
ID# 13573 -- 13573 -- Understanding Pro-Democracy Conservatives -- This report by the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University explores the contours of a conservative pro-democracy movement in the current American political landscape
ID# 13574 -- 13574 -- Political Polarization: Map the System -- By mapping the complex web of political polarization in the United States. The authors of this report hope to identify levers for change.
ID# 13576 -- 13576 -- Uncommon and nonpartisan: Antidemocratic attitudes in the American public -- While American political elites increasingly exhibit an antidemocratic posture, both Democratic and Republican constituencies overwhelmingly and consistently oppose norm violations and partisan violence.
ID# 13577 -- 13577 -- National Week of Conversation | April 15 - 21, 2024 -- National Week of Conversation was created for those exhausted by the division and hatred who seek ways to turn down the heat of polarization. it is a week to become inspired, equipped and engaged in bridge-building activities.
ID# 13578 -- 13578 -- DIY Resources -- These MANY! Civity-created resources can support and guide your efforts to grow civity (a culture of deliberately engaging in relationships of respect and empathy with others who are different) in your community.
ID# 13579 -- 13579 -- Resisting Polarization in an Election Season: A Four-Part Curriculum -- This self-paced curriculum will help you develop the internal capacities, skills, and confidence you need to become a positive force in conversations around the election where you live, work, worship, and learn.
ID# 13583 -- 13583 -- Conversations in Troubled Times -- How can we balance the need for immediate action with the ability to check in, listen, and support each other? How do you honor a complex history and personal connections to troubling events? This conversation guide can help.
ID# 13584 -- 13584 -- Polarization and Political Violence: Rachel Kleinfeld -- Rachel Kleinfeld says people talking across differences isn’t enough to end polarization-- there needs to be institutional change and politicians who come together to defend democratic norms.
ID# 13585 -- 13585 -- The All-America Conversations Toolkit -- This free toolkit from the National Civic League helps people take small, specific actions that give them a sense of confidence that they can work across dividing lines to create stronger and more equitable communities.
ID# 13586 -- 13586 -- Change Makers: People Making a Difference -- A 25 minute video from Common Ground Committee highlighting people who really have made a difference on polarization in their communities. And if they did it, so can you!
ID# 13587 -- 13587 -- The Legitimacy of the Supreme Court -- An examination from the Narrative Project, examining both the right and the left's view of the current Supreme Court.
ID# 13587 -- 13587 -- The Legitimacy of the Supreme Court -- An examination from the Narrative Project, examining both the right and the left's view of the current Supreme Court.
ID# 13588 -- 13588 -- Being Valued, Seen, and Heard in a Polarized Society -- Eileen Borris distinguishes between people's "personal stories" and "larger stories" -- who we are as part of a global human family, connected by transcendent values and spiritual natures.
ID# 13589 -- 13589 -- Aches, Pains, and Alternative Facts. Do the stories you tell yourself help you or hurt you? -- The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about others determine the quality of our relationships with them.
ID# 13589 -- 13589 -- Aches, Pains, and Alternative Facts. Do the stories you tell yourself help you or hurt you? -- The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about others determine the quality of our relationships with them.
ID# 13590 -- 13590 -- Enduring Hope: Democratic Resilience in Asia -- The March 2024 (Vol 19. No. 1) Issue of Global Asia from the East Asia Foundation
ID# 13591 -- 13591 -- Rebuild Trust in Politics: Common Sense Paper # 48 -- Those who choose to run for office should evidence some knowledge and care for the principles of sound government. To build trust, they must exhibit both good intent and competence.
ID# 13592 -- 13592 -- America's Divided Mind: Video Intervention -- This is a 4-minute video which was named one of the most effective interventions to reduce support for political violence, anti-democratic attitudes, and animosity across partisan lines.
ID# 13593 -- 13593 -- Are we really as divided as we think we are? -- According to Beyond Conflict's March 29, 2024 Newsletter, the answer is no.
ID# 13594 -- 13594 -- Learning from Experience -- From Network Weaver, a conversation between Rachel Donald and artist Maggie Robers on perspective, vision,AI, bias, resistance, extraction, imagination, and the role of art in a crisis.
ID# 13595 -- 13595 -- The 22nd Century Initiative -- The new website of a movement to "forge a people-powered democracy in this century and the next" with a growing "resource hub."
ID# 13596 -- 13596 -- Political Violence & US Democracy -- The Violence and Democracy Impact Tracker (VDIT) — a resource from Protect Democracy and the SNF Agora Institute — calculates the impact of political violence on eight distinct pillars of democracy in the United States.
ID# 13597 -- 13597 -- American Autocracy Threat Tracker -- A Comprehensive Catalog Based on Donald Trump and His Associates’ Plans, Promises, and Propositions
ID# 13598 -- 13598 -- The Horizon's Project New Race and Democracy Portolio -- Julia Roig and Jarvis Williams' new focus on race and democracy and their goal of supporting partners to break down siloes to place racial equity and racial healing at the center of our pro-democracy organizing.
ID# 13599 -- 13599 -- Horizons' Race and Democracy Resources -- An essay on why racial justice and democracy must be pursued hand-in-hand and resources discussing how to do that.
ID# 13603 -- 13603 -- The Perilous Coming Age of AI Warfare -- From Foreign Affairs, thoughts on what AI is going to do the warfare in our increasingly perilous times.
ID# 13606 -- 13606 -- Why We Must Resist AI’s Soft Mind Control -- Thoughts about how AI, with its inherent biases, is likely to change the way in which we think.
ID# 13607 -- 13607 -- Women have made major advances in politics — but the world is still far from equal -- Global data on the changing role of women around the world.
ID# 13609 -- 13609 -- Google's Culture of Fear -- inside the DEI hivemind that led to gemini's disaster -- A must-read article describing how DEI has transformed the Google culture and is threatening to transform our image of reality (as we see it through the lens of Google's monopoly).
ID# 13609 -- 13609 -- Google's Culture of Fear -- inside the DEI hivemind that led to gemini's disaster -- A must-read article describing how DEI has transformed the Google culture and is threatening to transform our image of reality (as we see it through the lens of Google's monopoly).
ID# 13610 -- 13610 -- Perceptions Of Women In The Arab And Muslim World -- For international Women's Day, a series of alarming videos exploring what many in the Muslim world think about the role of women.
ID# 13612 -- 13612 -- How Pseudo-Intellectualism Ruined Journalism -- An essay exploring how working-class realism could save journalism from groupthink.
ID# 13612 -- 13612 -- How Pseudo-Intellectualism Ruined Journalism -- An essay exploring how working-class realism could save journalism from groupthink.
ID# 13613 -- 13613 -- Closing Civic Space in the United States: Connecting the Dots, Changing the Trajectory -- From Rachel Kleinfeld, thoughts on opposing the use of regulations, laws, and narratives to restrict the ability of civil society organizations to act and speak.
ID# 13613 -- 13613 -- Closing Civic Space in the United States: Connecting the Dots, Changing the Trajectory -- From Rachel Kleinfeld, thoughts on opposing the use of regulations, laws, and narratives to restrict the ability of civil society organizations to act and speak.
ID# 13613 -- 13613 -- Closing Civic Space in the United States: Connecting the Dots, Changing the Trajectory -- From Rachel Kleinfeld, thoughts on opposing the use of regulations, laws, and narratives to restrict the ability of civil society organizations to act and speak.
ID# 13617 -- 13617 -- Inside No Labels decision to plow ahead with choosing presidential candidates -- For those hoping not to have to choose between the extremes of the right the extremes of the left, news that there is likely to be a national unity ticket on the ballot.
ID# 13618 -- 13618 -- The Vicious Cycle Driving Gaza’s North to Famine -- An article looking at the dynamics behind the deteriorating situation in northern Gaza.
ID# 13621 -- 13621 -- The Prophets: Bayard Rustin -- As we still struggle to deal with the problems of racism, an article that helps us remember what we should have learned from one of the giants of the civil rights era.
ID# 13623 -- 13623 -- In Defence of the EU -- As the world slides toward increasing global tensions and the rising risk of war, it is worth reflecting on the EU's success in bringing peace to war-torn Europe.
ID# 13627 -- 13627 -- How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers -- Given the public relations advantage that Hamas gleans from reports of large numbers of civilian casualties in Gaza, it is worth asking hard questions about the accuracy of those numbers.
ID# 13628 -- 13628 -- Longing for Auschwitz -- Amid increasing concern about the war's humanitarian impact, an article that tries to explain the fears that are motivating Israel's actions in the war.
ID# 13629 -- 13629 -- IDF aid convoy catastrophe probe: Deaths occurred from looting crush -- The kind of investigation that we need to make sense of the violence in Gaza. It would, however, have been better if this had come from a credible and genuinely objective international body (which doesn't exist).
ID# 13630 -- 13630 -- There is no famine in Gaza -- The Israeli side of the story on claims of an impending famine in Gaza.
ID# 13631 -- 13631 -- As Israel fights Hamas in Gaza, a brutal war is waged in the media -- From an Israeli perspective, a window into the information war that may ultimately be decisive in determining the outcome of this conflict..
ID# 13633 -- 13633 -- New Hate Speech Laws Threaten Freedom Across the West -- An update on how efforts to control hate speech may be undermining the most foundational of all our freedoms -- the freedom to think and speak one's mind.
ID# 13633 -- 13633 -- New Hate Speech Laws Threaten Freedom Across the West -- An update on how efforts to control hate speech may be undermining the most foundational of all our freedoms -- the freedom to think and speak one's mind.
ID# 13638 -- 13638 -- Think capitalism is terrible? This economist says it’s already dead. -- The summary of an important new book outlining ways in which our capitalistic economic system is undergoing dramatic change.
ID# 13640 -- 13640 -- Will you join the supermajority for constitutional democracy? -- A thoughtful essay exploring threats to democracy and steps that might be taken to address those threats.
ID# 13643 -- 13643 -- Trump’s freewheeling speeches offer a dark vision of a second term -- For those who have not had the opportunity to attend one of President Trump's rallies, a detailed look and what takes place (plus an accompanying left-leaning analysis).
ID# 13646 -- 13646 -- You're Thinking About Polarization All Wrong -- Another look at the problem of hyper-polarization -- one that argues that partisan blocs are less rigid than it might appear.
ID# 13647 -- 13647 -- Port Of Hope In Gaza: The Beginning Of The End Of The War -- From MEMRI, an organization focused on helping the West understand the Middle East, a hopeful essay about recent developments in Gaza.
ID# 13649 -- 13649 -- Hamas-linked website warns Palestinians not to work with Israel' -- One reason why distributing aid to the citizens of Gaza so difficult.
ID# 13650 -- 13650 -- The Biden-Trump Rerun: A Nation Craving Change Gets More of the Same -- An essay exploring what happens when a nation that longs for hopeful change has to choose between candidates that offer only known quantities from the past.
ID# 13653 -- 13653 -- LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6% -- Statistics about the rapidly changing nature of gender identity in the United States.
ID# 13655 -- 13655 -- The West Is Still Oblivious to Russia’s Information War -- An important reminder that we are engaged in an increasingly intense information war with Russia -- a war that we need to take much more seriously.
ID# 13658 -- 13658 -- The Road to Ceasefire Leads Through the Rafah Offensive -- An explanation of why Israel believes that its campaign in Rafah is critical to ending the war and alleviating the suffering of the Palestinian people.
ID# 13659 -- 13659 -- The Democrats and the Rise of Racial Radicalism -- A retrospective look at the evolution of the Democratic Party's views on race and reflections on the political implications of those changing views.
ID# 13662 -- 13662 -- Drone Swarms Are About to Change the Balance of Military Power -- One of the many new technologies that are rapidly changing the nature of war and, with it, the balance of power and effectiveness of deterrence.
ID# 13663 -- 13663 -- ‘Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin -- Thoughts on how climate orthodoxies could be making things worse, rather than better -- comments that those concerned about climate ought to carefully consider.
ID# 13663 -- 13663 -- ‘Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin -- Thoughts on how climate orthodoxies could be making things worse, rather than better -- comments that those concerned about climate ought to carefully consider.
ID# 13664 -- 13664 -- The High Price of Democrats’ Anti-Trump Lawfare -- Concern that the Democrat's complex array of not yet successful efforts to hold President Trump legally responsible for his actions, may, over the longer-term, undermine support for the rule of law.
ID# 13667 -- 13667 -- Israelis must listen to the Palestinians! -- The collection of video clips assembled by somebody who was honestly trying to understand what Palestinians think about the war.
ID# 13668 -- 13668 -- The Ideology Of Hamas – In Its Own Words -- With so many people around the world rising to defend Hamas, a disturbing summary of how the group describes its own beliefs. Is this something we really want to defend?
ID# 13670 -- 13670 -- Israel Needs a New Strategy -- Total Victory Is Not Possible—but Demilitarizing Hamas and Stabilizing Gaza Still Are -- From Foreign Affairs, thoughts about how the war in Gaza might be more effectively pursued.
ID# 13671 -- 13671 -- Seeking Authority Rather Than Authoritarians -- From Francis Fukuyama, an exploration of the complex relationship between the ability to act decisively and with authority and the struggle against authoritarianism.
ID# 13671 -- 13671 -- Seeking Authority Rather Than Authoritarians -- From Francis Fukuyama, an exploration of the complex relationship between the ability to act decisively and with authority and the struggle against authoritarianism.
ID# 13674 -- 13674 -- Biden’s Budget Neglects the Military -- News that the United States has decided to cut real defense spending despite the fact that the US is involved in two major wars and much of its military equipment is rapidly becoming obsolete.
ID# 13676 -- 13676 -- End the Phone-based Childhood Now -- From Jonathan Haidt, his recommendations for protecting children from the insidious effects of the "smart" phone culture.
ID# 13679 -- 13679 -- Optimism in a Time of Doomsaying -- A small dose of optimism amid today's ever present worries about the future.
ID# 13680 -- 13680 -- Dilemmas of Deterrence: The United States’ Smart New Strategy Has Six Daunting Trade-Offs -- Like it or not, our future may well be determined by the complex geopolitical maneuverings described in this article.
ID# 13681 -- 13681 -- What Can Improve Democracy? -- A report from Pew Research outlining what citizens in 24 countries told them about how democracy could be improved.
ID# 13682 -- 13682 -- Will Political Hatred Spill Into the Streets? -- Reflections on past instances in which political divisions boiled over into large-scale violence and the possibility that this could happen again as this year's political campaigns heat up.
ID# 13690 -- 13690 -- The Language of Politics: Arise, Ye Prisoners of Jargon! -- A classic article exploring the complex relationship between language, politics, and the way we think. In a great many respects, the problems we face are not new and we can benefit from past insights.
ID# 13798 -- 13798 -- Misunderstandings -- 0
ID# 13799 -- 13799 -- Lack of Communication Skills -- 0
ID# 13843 -- 13843 -- Spoilers -- Those Who Seek To Sabotage Peacebuilding or Collaboration Efforts -- 0
ID# 13843 -- 13843 -- Spoilers -- Those Who Seek To Sabotage Peacebuilding or Collaboration Efforts -- 0
ID# 13980 -- 13980 -- Communication Skill Builders -- 0
ID# 14086 -- 14086 -- Limiting Violence and Intimidation - For Practitioners - Violence Prevention Steps -- A user guide to Beyond Intractability resources, highlighting things to think about and do at all stages of conflict from emergence to settlement.
ID# 14087 -- 14087 -- Racial Profiling -- Julian Portilla interviewed Jay Rothman about his work in Cincinatti, Ohio to improve police-community relations after a number of police racial profliling incidents.
ID# 14089 -- 14089 -- Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI -- Hopeful news that, even in the age of AI, humans will have a valuable (and well compensated) role to play.
ID# 14090 -- 14090 -- The Factions in Gaza: A Comprehensive Overview. -- A surprising look at the social complexity of Gaza.
ID# 14091 -- 14091 -- The Rise of Western Individualism -- A look at what makes liberal, democratic, capitalistic, and individualistic societies so different (and a reminder that culture matters).
ID# 14094 -- 14094 -- Don’t Let Your Disgust Be Manipulated -- An explanation of a common propaganda technique and advice on how to resist it.
ID# 14097 -- 14097 -- Google and the Gemini Debacle -- In the case of Google, more information about how DEI is altering the kind of "intelligence" produced by AI.
ID# 14100 -- 14100 -- Racist Police Violence Reconsidered -- 0
ID# 14101 -- 14101 -- The police are in the wrong places -- An exploration of an obvious and much neglected reason why we can't effectively fight crime -- we can't afford enough police officers in areas plagued by crime.
ID# 14101 -- 14101 -- The police are in the wrong places -- An exploration of an obvious and much neglected reason why we can't effectively fight crime -- we can't afford enough police officers in areas plagued by crime.
ID# 14104 -- 14104 -- What a COVID-19 Food Fight Says About Scientific Discourse -- Things that everybody should know about the ways in which partisanship often distorts the work of science journalists.
ID# 14110 -- 14110 -- Port Of Hope – Part II: The Peaceful Future Of The Israel-Palestinian Conflict Depends On Ousting Qatar From Any Involvement In It -- A follow-up on an earlier story we posted from MEMRI about the "Port of Hope."
ID# 14112 -- 14112 -- U.S. Supreme Court Justices Join Governors To Discuss Overcoming Political Division -- Hopeful news about prominent government officials actively working to try to defuse hyperpolarization.
ID# 14112 -- 14112 -- U.S. Supreme Court Justices Join Governors To Discuss Overcoming Political Division -- Hopeful news about prominent government officials actively working to try to defuse hyperpolarization.
ID# 14113 -- 14113 -- USAID Internal Documents Reveal Government Plot To Promote Censorship Initiatives -- Useful new information for those trying to figure out what they think about stories of government censorship initiatives.
ID# 14115 -- 14115 -- Democrats Are Meddling in Republican Primaries -- A deeply disturbing story about how Democrats are fueling the extremes of Trumpism in hopes of making it easier to win elections. And, this is the party that wants your vote because it's willing to fight Trump!
ID# 14126 -- 14126 -- Whatever Happened to Teen Babysitters? -- With respect to the disappearance of teenage babysitters, story about the process of cultural evolution.
ID# 14130 -- 14130 -- On the Loneliness of the Jews -- Reflections on what it is like to live in Israel and to be a Jew amid the ongoing war and the global explosion of antisemitism.
ID# 14131 -- 14131 -- The Metamodern Shift in the Culture Wars -- A story about a valuable new word, "metamodern" and an explanation of how it can help us better deal with the world's complexities and contradictions.
ID# 14135 -- 14135 -- The One Idea That Could Save American Democracy -- Another idea about something we could do to limit the threats to democracy in the US and elsewhere.
ID# 14137 -- 14137 -- Too Much Purity Is Bad for the Left -- Practical advice for Democrats who want to win this fall's election, be more compromising and open to political diversity.
ID# 14138 -- 14138 -- Whatever You Do, Don’t Do the Silent Treatment -- Sound advice for those in the midst of difficult interpersonal conflict.
ID# 14140 -- 14140 -- California’s Electricity Disaster In Seven Charts -- If we are going to save the climate by electrifying everything, then we better be able to produce a lot of clean electricity.
ID# 14140 -- 14140 -- California’s Electricity Disaster In Seven Charts -- If we are going to save the climate by electrifying everything, then we better be able to produce a lot of clean electricity.
ID# 14143 -- 14143 -- How to beat the backlash that threatens the liberal revolution -- From Fareed Zakaria, an overview of his major new analysis of threats to liberal democracy.
ID# 14145 -- 14145 -- Why good news about inequality is awkward for the left and right -- Eye-opening news about serious flaws in the way in which we have, for decades, been calculating statistics about poverty and the level of inequality.
ID# 14147 -- 14147 -- Governments Are Creating A Fake Hate Panic To Censor, Interfere In Elections, And Imprison Their Political Enemies -- A critical look at the vast apparatus that is being mobilized to combat hate speech (as least as it is seen from the political left).
ID# 14147 -- 14147 -- Governments Are Creating A Fake Hate Panic To Censor, Interfere In Elections, And Imprison Their Political Enemies -- A critical look at the vast apparatus that is being mobilized to combat hate speech (as least as it is seen from the political left).
ID# 14149 -- 14149 -- The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life -- Provocative thoughts on how the events surrounding October 7 have transformed Jewish life in United States and around the world.
ID# 14150 -- 14150 -- War and Peace Data -- An extensive compilation of data on the full range of war and peace issues.
ID# 14152 -- 14152 -- The ‘Blood Bath’ Battle and the Electric Car War -- An exploration of the looming political battle over EV vehicle mandates (and the way in which that debate is being expressed in 2024 campaign rhetoric).
ID# 14152 -- 14152 -- The ‘Blood Bath’ Battle and the Electric Car War -- An exploration of the looming political battle over EV vehicle mandates (and the way in which that debate is being expressed in 2024 campaign rhetoric).
ID# 14153 -- 14153 -- How To Choose A Romantic Partner -- Practical advice on how to avoid destructive conflict in, perhaps, our most important relationship.
ID# 14156 -- 14156 -- Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence -- From within the AI community, an analysis of the conflict over how best to handle demands that AI produce DEI sensitive results.
ID# 14158 -- 14158 -- The Coddling of the American Undergraduate -- A look at the nature and implications of the United States' current approach to higher education.
ID# 14160 -- 14160 -- Weather forecasts have become much more accurate; we now need to make them available to everyone -- News that, with respect to the weather, we actually are getting much more proficient at making predictions.
ID# 14164 -- 14164 -- America’s Most Overlooked Political Divide Is Also Its Most Revealing -- A persuasive argument that we ought to be paying a lot more attention to the conflict between political activists and everyday citizens.
ID# 14165 -- 14165 -- The Mass Killing in Gaza Will Poison Israeli Souls Forever -- From the Israeli perspective, reflections on the terrible psychological and cultural costs associated with the war in Gaza.
ID# 14167 -- 14167 -- DEI killed the CHIPS Act -- With respect to the Biden administration's efforts to onshore computer chip production, a look at how deeply DEI has become embedded in everything the federal government does.
ID# 14169 -- 14169 -- The Long, Twisted History of Russia and ISIS -- For those trying to understand the back story behind the ISIS attack on Moscow, this is a good place to start.
ID# 14169 -- 14169 -- The Long, Twisted History of Russia and ISIS -- For those trying to understand the back story behind the ISIS attack on Moscow, this is a good place to start.
ID# 14170 -- 14170 -- What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself? -- An exceptionally complete and thorough analysis of the pros and cons of the many strategies that Israel's critics have suggested that they pursue.
ID# 14171 -- 14171 -- The War on Citizenship -- A provocative essay on the nature and meaning of nationalism and citizenship and a primer on the conflict between conflicting views on this issue.
ID# 14172 -- 14172 -- Israel Has Created a New Standard for Urban Warfare. Why Will No One Admit It? -- Those who are demanding that Israel do all that it can to limit civilian casualties ought to at least acknowledge its efforts to do so.
ID# 14175 -- 14175 -- Limiting Executive Overreach -- From the Project on Government Oversight, a report on the ways that executive overreach is weakening our system of governmental checks and balances.
ID# 14175 -- 14175 -- Limiting Executive Overreach -- From the Project on Government Oversight, a report on the ways that executive overreach is weakening our system of governmental checks and balances.
ID# 14176 -- 14176 -- Government Overreach: The Cause & Solution -- From the National Center for Constitutional Studies, a report on the problem, along with suggestions about ways in which everyday citizens can help bring about change.
ID# 14176 -- 14176 -- Government Overreach: The Cause & Solution -- From the National Center for Constitutional Studies, a report on the problem, along with suggestions about ways in which everyday citizens can help bring about change.
ID# 14177 -- 14177 -- Abortion in America: How Legislative Overreach Is Turning Reproductive Rights Into Criminal Wrongs -- This Report outlines current legal statutes that criminalize abortion and the impact overturning Roe v. Wade would have on laws to prosecute and incarcerate those providing, receiving, or assisting with abortions.
ID# 14177 -- 14177 -- Abortion in America: How Legislative Overreach Is Turning Reproductive Rights Into Criminal Wrongs -- This Report outlines current legal statutes that criminalize abortion and the impact overturning Roe v. Wade would have on laws to prosecute and incarcerate those providing, receiving, or assisting with abortions.
ID# 14177 -- 14177 -- Abortion in America: How Legislative Overreach Is Turning Reproductive Rights Into Criminal Wrongs -- This Report outlines current legal statutes that criminalize abortion and the impact overturning Roe v. Wade would have on laws to prosecute and incarcerate those providing, receiving, or assisting with abortions.
ID# 14178 -- 14178 -- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
ID# 14178 -- 14178 -- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
ID# 14179 -- 14179 -- World Health Organization -- with 8000 health professionals WHO coordinates the world’s response to health emergencies, promotes well-being, prevents disease and expands access to health care world wide.
ID# 14179 -- 14179 -- World Health Organization -- with 8000 health professionals WHO coordinates the world’s response to health emergencies, promotes well-being, prevents disease and expands access to health care world wide.
ID# 14180 -- 14180 -- The Billionaires Who Are Threatening Democracy -- A review of Quinn Slobodian's new book about the ideologues who believe that society should prioritize capital, not people.
ID# 14181 -- 14181 -- The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won. -- The sociologist Matthew Desmond believes that being poor is different in the U.S. than in other rich countries.
ID# 14182 -- 14182 -- The Approaching Disintegration of Academia -- An article by Mark Godblatt, asserting that universities cannot withsetand the assult on objective truth.
ID# 14182 -- 14182 -- The Approaching Disintegration of Academia -- An article by Mark Godblatt, asserting that universities cannot withsetand the assult on objective truth.
ID# 14182 -- 14182 -- The Approaching Disintegration of Academia -- An article by Mark Godblatt, asserting that universities cannot withsetand the assult on objective truth.
ID# 14183 -- 14183 -- Why America Doesn’t Build -- Even green-energy projects get quashed by local "NIMBY" opposition.
ID# 14183 -- 14183 -- Why America Doesn’t Build -- Even green-energy projects get quashed by local "NIMBY" opposition.
ID# 14184 -- 14184 -- Project on Government Oversight -- POGO is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, and when the government fails to serve the public or silences those who report wrongdoing.
ID# 14185 -- 14185 -- NAACP -- We are the home of grassroots activism for civil rights and social justice. We advocate, agitate, and litigate for the civil rights due to Black America.
ID# 14186 -- 14186 -- League of United Latin American Citizens -- LULAC advances the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, housing, health, and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs in over 525 locations nationwide.
ID# 14187 -- 14187 -- Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism -- FAIR, is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding, and humanity.
ID# 14187 -- 14187 -- Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism -- FAIR, is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding, and humanity.
ID# 14188 -- 14188 -- Professor David Bernstein and New Book Featured in Wall Street Journal Interview -- Mr. Bernstein is the author of a recent book, Classified, that traces the haphazard codification of the federal government’s racial labels, whjich, he says, are "irrational."
ID# 14189 -- 14189 -- Rebuild Congress Initiative -- Our mission is to broaden and diversify the ecosystem of leaders who are aligning on and working to advance the policies, norms, and narratives needed for American democracy to thrive in the 21st century.
ID# 14189 -- 14189 -- Rebuild Congress Initiative -- Our mission is to broaden and diversify the ecosystem of leaders who are aligning on and working to advance the policies, norms, and narratives needed for American democracy to thrive in the 21st century.
ID# 14190 -- 14190 -- Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, 116-117th Congress -- This truly bipartisan committee was tasked to investigate, study, make findings, hold public hearings, and develop recommendations to make Congress more effective, efficient, and transparent.
ID# 14190 -- 14190 -- Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, 116-117th Congress -- This truly bipartisan committee was tasked to investigate, study, make findings, hold public hearings, and develop recommendations to make Congress more effective, efficient, and transparent.
ID# 14191 -- 14191 -- Finally, a book about critical social justice that its advocates might read -- Yasha Mounk's book, The Identity Trap, explains how "the identity synthesis," the ideology that places group identitioes at the center of social, cultural, and political life" is getting us in so much trouble.
ID# 14192 -- 14192 -- Vertical Communities -- This article suggests that the internet has changed our notion of "community." Vertical communities are degrading and fragmenting horizontal communities, yet cannot replace them.
ID# 14193 -- 14193 -- Superstar Cities in the Age of Zoom -- Workers are still going into the office with hybrid work models so "superstar cities" are not as threatened as once was thought.
ID# 14194 -- 14194 -- Conflict Core and Overlay Factors - Part I -- The more that eight "core factors" are present, the more likely a conflict will become intractable.
ID# 14196 -- 14196 -- Can Multiracial Democracy Survive? -- An article by Horizon's "Chief Organizer" Maria Stephan on the relationship between democracy, autocracy, white supremacy, and racism.
ID# 14197 -- 14197 -- Surprising New Findings on Civic Language Ft. Amy McIsaac -- Amy McIsaac talks about new findings from PACE's long-term study surveying Americans on their perceptions of civic terms. Some terms, she says, are helping bring Americans together and spur them to action.
ID# 14198 -- 14198 -- Three Organizations Teaching Students to Navigate Political Difference – BCB #94 -- Profiles of 3 organizations (Essential Partners, Braver Angels, and the American Exchange Project) with noteworthy approaches to teaching students (and everyone else, really) do better deal with political conflict:
ID# 14199 -- 14199 -- Campus Deplatforming is on the Rise. Is that bad? – BCB #95 -- A disturbing trend in the one place in society that is supposed to teach people how to think critically and have an open mind to new ideas.
ID# 14200 -- 14200 -- Tennesseans have different views on guns, but here's how we know solutions are possible -- The authors participated in Citizen Solutions, a national civic experiment by Starts With Us that empowers Americans to work across differences to create solutions to divisive issues.
ID# 14203 -- 14203 -- Historical Monuments: To Remove or Not to Remove -- Renaming or removing a namesake does not change the past, it only prevents us from educating future generations.
ID# 14204 -- 14204 -- Why Are Democrats Losing Non-White Voters? -- This article argues that the issue is religion: the more Democrats appear like a party of mostly areligious white liberals, the less they will appeal to non-whites
ID# 14205 -- 14205 -- Can Texas Create Its Own Immigration Policy? -- Texas' Senate Bill 4 would make unlawful entry into Texas a state crime, empowering state troopers and cops to arrest individuals suspected of crossing the border illegally and giving state judges the power to issue deportations.
ID# 14207 -- 14207 -- Do Americans have civic role models? -- New research, by More in Common and others, indicates that we have a reason to be concerned about the status of Americans’ civic disposition.
ID# 14208 -- 14208 -- Joint Campus-Law Enforcement Preparation for Campus Demonstrations and Hate Incidents amid Violence in the Middle East -- An extensively annotated checklist based on input from current and former campus security. city police chiefs and mediators who have worked large-scale crowd events and hate incidents.
ID# 14208 -- 14208 -- Joint Campus-Law Enforcement Preparation for Campus Demonstrations and Hate Incidents amid Violence in the Middle East -- An extensively annotated checklist based on input from current and former campus security. city police chiefs and mediators who have worked large-scale crowd events and hate incidents.
ID# 14209 -- 14209 -- LEADING A DIVIDED CAMPUS: Ideas and Illustrations -- From the Ohio State Divided Community Project, a guidebook to help college and university leaders effectively support students and promote respectful engagement as students react to the ongoing violence in the Middle East.
ID# 14211 -- 14211 -- Checklist for Listeners -- From Ohio State's Divided Community Project, a checklist for campus leadership to help them listen to students, faculty, and staff effectively after a divisive event.
ID# 14212 -- 14212 -- Conflict Engagement and Peacemaking -- A Peace Talks Radio podcast exploring "conflict engagment" and explaining how this differs from more familiar "conflict resoloution."
ID# 14213 -- 14213 -- MWEG's Media Literacy Toolkit -- A collection of materials from MWEG (Mormon Women for Ethical Government) on news consumption, misinformation, bias, conspiracy theories, propaganda, and more.
ID# 14214 -- 14214 -- Reformation Series – Cover Down: A Conversation with Dr. Richard Barton – Unite America -- A discussion about non-partisan primaries and the benefits they bring to real world issues and the lives of citizens.
ID# 14215 -- 14215 -- Civics, Democracy, and Civic Learning Week (With Elizabeth Clay Roy and Abbie Kaplan) -- What does civics education have to do with our moment of democratic crisis? How do we create citizens with a sense of agency over society? This video discusses these issues.
ID# 14216 -- 14216 -- Essential Partners' Guide to Conversations Across the Partisan Divide -- Drawing on four decades of real-world experience and rigorous research, this guide will equip you to address polarization in your own context.
ID# 14217 -- 14217 -- Agonizing over Europe’s Defence: Some Narratives are Getting Ahead of the Facts -- Russia’s war against Ukraine should have been a stop sign for nationally-oriented security and defence policies in Europe. But the opposite is the case.
ID# 14218 -- 14218 -- “Civil War” Movie Reactions: “Can That Really Happen in America?” -- The movie Civil War depicts a civil war in America taking place in the not-so-distant future. The movie has people talking about how likely such a terrifying scenario actually is.
ID# 14219 -- 14219 -- Perceptions of Democracy -- People across the globe lack confidence in political institutions and are dissatisfied with their governments. Citizens generally are more skeptical, however, than are experts.
ID# 14221 -- 14221 -- If Journalists Don't Believe in Objectivity, What Do They Believe in? – BCB #96 -- Jonathan Stray observes that "Audiences are still into it, but three years of data shows that journalists mostly aren't."
ID# 14224 -- 14224 -- Three Interfaith Organizations Helping Communities Navigate Their Differences – BCB #99 -- There’s no question that religion plays a part in Americans’ divisions. But it can also help bridge them, as this story illustrates.
ID# 14225 -- 14225 -- How Contempt Destroys Democracy -- A new book by Zachary Elwood argues that democracy falls apart when people grow to hate and fear the “other side” so much that beating them takes precedence over everything else--just what we are doing now.
ID# 14227 -- 14227 -- How Divided Are We? -- This article confirms some of the findings that Americans are less divided than we think, but on some issues, such as the Second Amendment, divisions are still stark.
ID# 14228 -- 14228 -- PACE survey shows the path to civic unity -- A report on the Civic Language Perceptions Project showing how civic language unites, divides, and motivates American voters.
ID# 14229 -- 14229 -- How religious communities are working to ensure a free & fair election -- To protect democracy you have to bring together a broad coalition of people who might have major disagreements on politics and policy but who are willing to come together to prioritize its defense. A discussion with Emma Addams of Mormon Women for Ethical Government.
ID# 14230 -- 14230 -- Conservative Environmentalist Benji Backer Talks Polarization and the Pressures to Conform -- A conversation with the author of a new book The Conservative Environmentalist about the pressures to align with "our team" and how liberals and conservatives are amplifying division on climate.
ID# 14266 -- 14266 -- Making Peace in a Polarized Nation -- This session aims to elucidate the psychological factors that contribute to identity-based polarization, offer insights into what makes such polarization toxic, and identify ways to reduce toxic polarization and bridge partisan divides.
ID# 14267 -- 14267 -- Community Relations Service -- CRS serves as “America’s Peacemaker” for communities facing conflict based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability.
ID# 14267 -- 14267 -- Community Relations Service -- CRS serves as “America’s Peacemaker” for communities facing conflict based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability.
ID# 14267 -- 14267 -- Community Relations Service -- CRS serves as “America’s Peacemaker” for communities facing conflict based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability.
ID# 14267 -- 14267 -- Community Relations Service -- CRS serves as “America’s Peacemaker” for communities facing conflict based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability.
ID# 14268 -- 14268 -- How Does the CRS Control Rumors -- Excerpts from interviews of former CRS Conciliators from the Civil Rights Oral History Project
ID# 14269 -- 14269 -- Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project -- Extensive oral histories of former Community Relations Service Mediators, describing how they defused hot racial and other inter-group conflicts.
ID# 14271 -- 14271 -- The Interrupters -- 0
ID# 14272 -- 14272 -- CBI -- 0
ID# 14273 -- 14273 -- Keystone Policy Center -- 0
ID# 14273 -- 14273 -- Keystone Policy Center -- 0
ID# 14274 -- 14274 -- Meridian Institute -- 0
ID# 14274 -- 14274 -- Meridian Institute -- 0
ID# 14275 -- 14275 -- Tangle News -- 0
ID# 14285 -- 14285 -- Institute for Free Speech -- 0
ID# 14286 -- 14286 -- Free Speech for People -- 0
ID# 14288 -- 14288 -- Here’s the Long List of Topics Republicans Want Banned From the Classroom -- https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/heres-the-long-list-of-topics-republicans-want-banned-from-the-classroom/2022/02
ID# 14289 -- 14289 -- Disarming Disinformation: Our Shared Responsibility -- Each of us has a duty and responsibility, as citizens, as Americans, and especially as leaders – leaders who have pledged to honor our Constitution and protect our nation — to defend the truth and to defeat the lies
ID# 14290 -- 14290 -- Shaping Europe's digital future: Tackling online disinformation -- https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/online-disinformation
ID# 14291 -- 14291 -- State Dept.’s Fight Against Disinformation Comes Under Attack -- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/technology/state-department-disinformation-criticism.html
ID# 14292 -- 14292 -- Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy -- https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/
ID# 14293 -- 14293 -- The country inoculating against disinformation -- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220128-the-country-inoculating-against-disinformation
ID# 14294 -- 14294 -- Internet Censorship 2024: A Map of Internet Censorship and Restrictions -- https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/internet-censorship-map/
ID# 14296 -- 14296 -- Centers for Disease Control -- CDC is the US's leading science-based, data-driven, service organization that protects the public's health.
ID# 14297 -- 14297 -- Center for AI Safety -- AI experts and public figures express their concern about AI risk.
ID# 14298 -- 14298 -- Book Review: Escape From Model Land -- A review of an excellent book on a wickedly complex subject - whether computer models can explain reality or not.
ID# 14299 -- 14299 -- International Association for Public Participation -- Our mission is to promote and advance public participation / community engagement globally through targeted initiatives that are guided by culturally adaptive standards of practice and core values.
ID# 14299 -- 14299 -- International Association for Public Participation -- Our mission is to promote and advance public participation / community engagement globally through targeted initiatives that are guided by culturally adaptive standards of practice and core values.
ID# 14300 -- 14300 -- U.S. Public Participation Playbook -- A resource for government managers to effectively evaluate and build better services through public participation.
ID# 14300 -- 14300 -- U.S. Public Participation Playbook -- A resource for government managers to effectively evaluate and build better services through public participation.
ID# 14301 -- 14301 -- USEPA's Public Participation Guide: Introduction to Public Participation -- Public participation can be any process that directly engages the public in decision-making and gives full consideration to public input in making that decision. This guide explains options.
ID# 14301 -- 14301 -- USEPA's Public Participation Guide: Introduction to Public Participation -- Public participation can be any process that directly engages the public in decision-making and gives full consideration to public input in making that decision. This guide explains options.
ID# 14302 -- 14302 -- Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation -- The Program on Negotiation (PON) is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to developing the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution in a range of public and private settings.
ID# 14303 -- 14303 -- Association for Conflict Resolution -- ACR is an international professional association for mediators, arbitrators, educators and other conflict resolution practitioners.
ID# 14303 -- 14303 -- Association for Conflict Resolution -- ACR is an international professional association for mediators, arbitrators, educators and other conflict resolution practitioners.
ID# 14304 -- 14304 -- Mediate.com -- Mediate.com is an extensive resource for mediators and about mediators--helping people find mediation services, and helping mediators hone their skills and knowledge.
ID# 14306 -- 14306 -- Alliance for Peacebuilding -- AfP is building and advancing the peacebuilding field to center peace in our policies, programs, and laws, as well as in our social norms, our relationships, and our narratives, through our new fieldbuilding strategy.
ID# 14307 -- 14307 -- Conflict Coaching Matters -- Conflict Coaching Matters, LLC is a leading consulting and training organization in the field of dispute resolution, helping public and private clients manage conflict more effectively.
ID# 14308 -- 14308 -- Frontiers MOOS Seminar Topic Area: Constructive Confrontation -- A BI smeinar with links to articles and materials to help users engage in conflict constructively, avoiding escalation and other destructive dynamics.
ID# 14309 -- 14309 -- Conflict Coaching Matters -- Conflict coaching is defined as a set of skills and strategies used to support peoples’ ability to engage in, manage, or productively resolve conflict.
ID# 14310 -- 14310 -- The Mediation Group: Conflict Coaching -- Conflict coaching is a one-on-one process that develops the client’s skill at handling conflict, or supports the client in working through a particularly difficult or complex conflict.
ID# 14310 -- 14310 -- The Mediation Group: Conflict Coaching -- Conflict coaching is a one-on-one process that develops the client’s skill at handling conflict, or supports the client in working through a particularly difficult or complex conflict.
ID# 14312 -- 14312 -- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace -- The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace generates strategic ideas and independent analysis to help countries and institutions take on the most difficult global problems and advance peace.
ID# 14313 -- 14313 -- International IDEA -- International IDEA is an intergovernmental organization (IGO) with a mandate to support sustainable democracy worldwide by building, strengthening and safeguarding of democratic political institutions and processes at all levels.
ID# 14316 -- 14316 -- Peace and Security Funders Group -- The Peace and Security Funders Group connects and supports the global community of funders advancing peace and security efforts in order to build a more peaceful, just, and equitable world.
ID# 14316 -- 14316 -- Peace and Security Funders Group -- The Peace and Security Funders Group connects and supports the global community of funders advancing peace and security efforts in order to build a more peaceful, just, and equitable world.
ID# 14317 -- 14317 -- Utah opponents made a campaign ad together. Here’s what it achieved -- During the 2020 campaign season, Utah’s Democratic and Republican candidates for governor took the unusual step of recording an ad together. Two years later, researchers found it had an effect on those who saw it.
ID# 14317 -- 14317 -- Utah opponents made a campaign ad together. Here’s what it achieved -- During the 2020 campaign season, Utah’s Democratic and Republican candidates for governor took the unusual step of recording an ad together. Two years later, researchers found it had an effect on those who saw it.
ID# 14320 -- 14320 -- Why I Developed Ethical Individualism Theory -- A new rabbi created a secular human relational philosophy that attempts to optimize how we relate to each other as people with mutual trust, respect, and dignity.
ID# 14325 -- 14325 -- Structural Reforms to the Federal Judiciary -- The federal judiciary has hit a crisis point that requires changes to how the courts operate and how cases are brought before them.
ID# 14326 -- 14326 -- The American Arbitration Association -- The not-for-profit American Arbitration Association® (AAA®)-International Centre for Dispute Resolution® (ICDR®) is the largest private global provider of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services in the world.
ID# 14327 -- 14327 -- The King Center -- The King Center, founded by Martin Luther King's widow, Coretta Scott King provides education and training, events and research on "Kingian nonviolence."
ID# 14327 -- 14327 -- The King Center -- The King Center, founded by Martin Luther King's widow, Coretta Scott King provides education and training, events and research on "Kingian nonviolence."
ID# 14328 -- 14328 -- Pace e Bene -- A nonviolence action center, Pace e Bene runs nonviolent campaigns and does nonviolence education and training.
ID# 14329 -- 14329 -- Addie Wyatt Center for Nonviolence Training -- The mission of AWC is to engage and empower communities with the philosophy and methodology of Kingian Nonviolence -- the approach to conflict reconciliation used by Martin Luther King.
ID# 14330 -- 14330 -- On Earth Peace -- OEP helps leaders develop thriving communities of justice and peace, using the discipline of Kingian Nonviolence — in solidarity with movements, and accountability to impacted people.
ID# 14331 -- 14331 -- Israel Is Making the Same Mistake America Made in Iraq -- A cautionary essay raising the possibility that Israel may be making many of the same mistakes that the United States made in Iraq and Afghanistan.
ID# 14332 -- 14332 -- Israel Unleashed? -- The worrying look at the still simmering confrontation between Israel and Iran and the continuing possibility that this could explode into a wider war.
ID# 14334 -- 14334 -- The numbers of dead in Gaza don’t add up – and there is no easy explanation -- A persuasive, and critical, look at the reliability of Gaza War casualty statistics.
ID# 14335 -- 14335 -- Conclusion of the Investigation Into the Incident in Which 7 WCK Employees Were Killed During a Humanitarian Operation in Gaza -- The official Israeli Defense Force report on the incidents in which 7 World Central Kitchen employees were killed. Contrast this with Hamas' cynical exploitation of civilian casualties.
ID# 14336 -- 14336 -- How Much Is a Dead Jew Worth? -- An eye-opening account of the economic incentives that Palestinians offer to those who agree to become terrorists.
ID# 14337 -- 14337 -- The ‘Tectonic Shift’ in Media That Changed Perceptions of Israel: ‘What’s Left Is a System Run by Activists’ -- An excellent analysis of the many factors that have led to sharp changes in global news coverage regarding Israel, the Palestinians, and the turbulent Middle East.
ID# 14338 -- 14338 -- Rescuing Identity Politics -- Review and summary of an important new book that tries to offer identity politics a positive path through the backlash that is threatening its success.
ID# 14340 -- 14340 -- The War on Citizenship -- An insightful analysis of the complex relationship between citizenship, nationalism, and the ethics of global cosmopolitanism.
ID# 14344 -- 14344 -- Why Public Administration? -- A critical, but widely neglected component of democratic success -- the willingness of principled, talented, and energetic people to commit to a career of public service.
ID# 14346 -- 14346 -- The End of Foreign-Language Education -- Eye-opening news about recent AI advances in translation software and a tantalizing look at a world in which language barriers collapse.
ID# 14350 -- 14350 -- The Democrats’ Abundance Problem Revisited -- An argument that President Trump's reelection campaign cannot be defeated by promising voters increased scarcity (and that the key to electoral success is an abundance strategy).
ID# 14353 -- 14353 -- The Great Struggle for Liberalism -- An insightful essay that puts democracy's current struggles into the larger historical context of societal development and evolution.
ID# 14355 -- 14355 -- Liberals must not use illiberal means to defeat Trumpism -- An argument that liberal democracy cannot be defended by abandoning the liberal democratic principles that are its foundation.
ID# 14357 -- 14357 -- The Coming Electricity Crisis -- As the climate change emergency focuses efforts on "electrifying everything," more information about how far we are from being able to produce enough electricity.
ID# 14358 -- 14358 -- The West Needs a War Footing -- A compelling and terrifying argument that the time has once again arisen for making the United States (and its allies) the arsenal for democracy.
ID# 14360 -- 14360 -- The Case for Saying ‘I Do’ -- As support for the institution of marriage continues to decline, an argument that (in this case) cultural change may be making things worse rather than better.
ID# 14361 -- 14361 -- The Prophets: Allan Bloom -- Another case in which we received advance warning about one of today's big problems and failed to take the necessary preventative measures.
ID# 14362 -- 14362 -- History Goes to War in the Holy Land -- A description of one man's effort to write an honest history of Israel and the Palestinians.
ID# 14363 -- 14363 -- The U.S. Already Soaks the Rich -- A thought-provoking essay revealing that recent efforts to redistribute income and wealth away from the rich have been much more successful than we might have thought (though probably still not successful enough).
ID# 14364 -- 14364 -- How the Atlantic Went From Broke to Profitable in Three Years -- For those who feared that good journalism was no longer economically feasible, a hopeful story about the Atlantic's resurrection.
ID# 14366 -- 14366 -- In defence of forgiveness -- For a time of reckoning in which so many people focus on holding others accountable for their actions, an argument for tempering accountability with forgiveness.
ID# 14367 -- 14367 -- Trump Is No Savior -- An eye-opening look into the strange synthesis between Donald Trump and the efforts of Christians to defend their beliefs.
ID# 14368 -- 14368 -- Utah’s Promising New Anti-DEI Law -- A description of what sounds like a genuinely promising effort to craft a workable legislative compromise on the regulation of DEI programs.
ID# 14369 -- 14369 -- When Hatred of the Left Becomes Love for Putin -- A look at how opposition to progressive policies is metastasizing into an open embrace of Russian authoritarianism.
ID# 14370 -- 14370 -- Stone of Madness -- A provocative essay on the nature of misinformation and strategies for constructively addressing it.
ID# 14371 -- 14371 -- China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms -- An update on the ways in which we can expect geopolitical rivals to use the latest technology to attack the upcoming US election.
ID# 14372 -- 14372 -- Elite College Admissions Have Turned Students Into Brands -- The story from the highest levels of higher education that suggests that the way that the meritocracy measures merit is in need of serious reform.
ID# 14373 -- 14373 -- The dark side of active citizenship -- The most politically active citizens are the biggest drivers of destructive polarization -- a fact that suggests that we ought to consider rethinking the norms of civic involvement.
ID# 14375 -- 14375 -- Why Democrats Can’t Quit Trump -- An interesting essay exploring the symbiotic relationship between Donald Trump in the Democratic political establishment.
ID# 14376 -- 14376 -- You Can’t Fire Only the White Guys -- An article about a court case that pretty convincingly demonstrates that there are cases in which reverse discrimination is a real problem.
ID# 14377 -- 14377 -- ‘Everything, Everywhere, All At Once’: U.S. Officials Warn of Increased Cyberthreats -- The possibility of serious cyber attacks launched against the United States' critical information systems is not a hypothetical possibility. It's an ongoing reality.
ID# 14377 -- 14377 -- ‘Everything, Everywhere, All At Once’: U.S. Officials Warn of Increased Cyberthreats -- The possibility of serious cyber attacks launched against the United States' critical information systems is not a hypothetical possibility. It's an ongoing reality.
ID# 14378 -- 14378 -- Probability and Subjective Certainty -- For a world in which so many people are convinced that they know the "truth," an exploration of uncertainty and probability theory.
ID# 14385 -- 14385 -- Adversarial Collaboration: An EDGE Lecture by Daniel Kahneman -- A lecture by the late Daniel Kahneman describing adversarial collaboration – what it is and how it works.
ID# 14391 -- 14391 -- Trump’s Backers Are Determined Not to Blow It This Time Around -- A window into what opponents of the left's administrative state are planning to do to take advantage of what they hope will be a second Trump Presidency
ID# 14393 -- 14393 -- On Public Service -- A strong defense of the ideal of public service and a sharp critique of Donald Trump's disdain for such service.
ID# 14394 -- 14394 -- How to survive another Trump-Biden election -- From Amanda Ripley, thoughts about how to navigate the coming year of political turmoil.
ID# 14395 -- 14395 -- Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? -- A story about one unsung hero -- the kind of person that society depends upon in ways that are seldom recognized.
ID# 14397 -- 14397 -- The AI deepfake apocalypse is here. These are the ideas for fighting it. -- A story about how we might be able to protect ourselves from a world in which AI makes it increasingly hard to distinguish reality from illusion.
ID# 14399 -- 14399 -- No Labels, No Alternatives, No Escape -- A postmortem on No Labels' failed effort to put a "national unity" candidate on the November Presidential ballot.
ID# 14403 -- 14403 -- How No Labels was thwarted — and a disaster for democracy was avoided -- From someone opposed to No Labels' efforts to give voters a choice between political extremes, an account of how and why the opposition was successful.
ID# 14405 -- 14405 -- No Labels Should Pick a Team, Biden or Trump -- From potential No Labels nominee, Mitt Romney, advice on how they might better be able to pursue their objectives through the two-party system.
ID# 14413 -- 14413 -- A Fight Between Hamas and Other Palestinians for Power in Gaza Emerges -- The fight between those vying for Palestinian leadership in Gaza is, in many ways, as consequential as the fight between Israel and Hamas.
ID# 14414 -- 14414 -- The Government Isn’t Ready for the Violence Trump Might Unleash -- An argument for engaging in worse case (or near worse case) contingency planning as the US heads into uncharted political territory.
ID# 14416 -- 14416 -- Bring Back The Culture of Debate! -- For a time when everyone seems to shy away from criticism, an argument for the reinvigoration and celebration of debate.
ID# 14417 -- 14417 -- Western Democracy’s Future Depends on Israel’s Victory -- More thoughts on the relationship between Israel's war with Hamas, Iran, and its proxies and larger efforts to defend democracy.
ID# 14418 -- 14418 -- I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust. -- This is the critical article about NPR that has provoked considerable outcry. It deserves thoughtful consideration.
ID# 14419 -- 14419 -- Joe Biden’s Long Career of Conformity -- A profile of President Biden's long-standing and quite successful political strategy of adjusting his views to the changing and, sometimes, logically inconsistent views of his constituents.
ID# 14421 -- 14421 -- Americans are still not worried enough about the risk of world war -- Another plea to take the deteriorating global security environment seriously and not assume that a third World War is an impossibility.
ID# 14422 -- 14422 -- A history (and defense) of left vs right -- For a time when the battle between the Left and the Right is central to most everything, a refresher course on the origins and meanings of the terms.
ID# 14423 -- 14423 -- Toward Accountability for Iran’s UN-Recognized Crimes Against Humanity -- Welcome news of progress toward Iranian accountability for at least some of its crimes against humanity.
ID# 14425 -- 14425 -- The U.S. Urgently Needs a Bigger Grid. Here’s a Fast Solution. -- An example of the kind of unexpected and seemingly insignificant technology that could emerge from the shadows and play a big role in making the energy transition successful.
ID# 14425 -- 14425 -- The U.S. Urgently Needs a Bigger Grid. Here’s a Fast Solution. -- An example of the kind of unexpected and seemingly insignificant technology that could emerge from the shadows and play a big role in making the energy transition successful.
ID# 14428 -- 14428 -- The power of unconscious thought -- From George Lakoff and a progressive perspective, critically important insights into subconscious aspects of political communication.
ID# 14430 -- 14430 -- What We Lose if We Let Putin Win -- A reminder of the the enormity of the geopolitical ramifications surrounding the war in Ukraine and the danger of thinking that isolationism will insulate us from those ramifications.
ID# 14432 -- 14432 -- What Worries Me Most About a Trump Presidency -- One nightmare vision of a Trump Presidency -- corrupt machine politics at the national level.
ID# 14432 -- 14432 -- What Worries Me Most About a Trump Presidency -- One nightmare vision of a Trump Presidency -- corrupt machine politics at the national level.
ID# 14433 -- 14433 -- Can Ukraine Find New Soldiers Without Decimating a Whole Generation? -- A startling look at the demographic impact impact of the war on the Ukrainian population -- the disappearing cohort of young men.
ID# 14435 -- 14435 -- The Taliban Have Restored Barbarism to Afghanistan -- An update on what life in Afghanistan is like, now that the Taliban have returned and US efforts to transform the country have failed (and a reminder of how bad things can get).
ID# 14438 -- 14438 -- The Great Hypocrisy of the Pro-Life Movement -- An exploration of the relationship between abortion has a fundamental moral cause and abortion as a politically useful tactic for mobilizing voters.
ID# 14439 -- 14439 -- The Quiet Magic of Middle Managers -- A must-read article about the "middle managers" whose conflict-handling expertise enables our society to function.
ID# 14439 -- 14439 -- The Quiet Magic of Middle Managers -- A must-read article about the "middle managers" whose conflict-handling expertise enables our society to function.
ID# 14440 -- 14440 -- With State Bans on D.E.I., Some Universities Find a Workaround: Rebranding -- An article describing how DEI programs are responding to increasing public criticism and political efforts to prohibit them.
ID# 14441 -- 14441 -- How Many Dead in Gaza? -- For a time when casualty statistics coming out of Gaza are driving so much of global politics, an article asking hard questions about the reliability of those statistics.
ID# 14443 -- 14443 -- The Prophets: Eric Hoffer -- Given the prominent role that "true believers" are playing in contemporary politics, a timely reflection on the work of Eric Hoffer -- the man who coined the term.
ID# 14444 -- 14444 -- Why Can’t Biden Triangulate Like Trump? -- A description of the "triangulation" process through which political leaders try to adjust their campaigns and rhetoric to target political voting blocks.
ID# 14447 -- 14447 -- Sizing up the New Axis -- As we slide into an increasingly dangerous global Cold War, a sobering assessment of relative strengths of competing blocs.
ID# 14447 -- 14447 -- Sizing up the New Axis -- As we slide into an increasingly dangerous global Cold War, a sobering assessment of relative strengths of competing blocs.
ID# 14450 -- 14450 -- Iranians Don't Want a War With Israel -- A timely reminder of the limited support that Iran's aggressive military campaigns enjoy with the Iranian people themselves.
ID# 14451 -- 14451 -- The False Economic Promise of Populism: A Conversation with Rachel Kleinfeld -- An interview with one of the more prominent voices in the pro-democracy movement, Rachel Kleinfeld, talking about the origins of the populist rebellion against democratic institutions.
ID# 14452 -- 14452 -- How Did the War Begin? With Iran’s Appeasers in Washington -- A well-grounded and sharply critical essay highlighting things that the United States did to help make the ongoing Mideast conflagration possible.
ID# 14453 -- 14453 -- What Would Success Look Like in American Education? -- You can't solve problems if you don't have a shared vision of what a solution would look like. This essay tries to imagine a goal for our educational system that we could all work toward.
ID# 14454 -- 14454 -- The U.S. Has Received a Rare Invitation From China. There Is Only One Right Answer. -- Encouraging news that the Chinese are starting to realize the dangers posed by the emerging nuclear arms race. We should join them in their efforts to negotiate a new series of arms control treaties.
ID# 14454 -- 14454 -- The U.S. Has Received a Rare Invitation From China. There Is Only One Right Answer. -- Encouraging news that the Chinese are starting to realize the dangers posed by the emerging nuclear arms race. We should join them in their efforts to negotiate a new series of arms control treaties.
ID# 14456 -- 14456 -- The Myth of White Christian Nationalism -- For a time when many on the left tend to dismiss their political opponents as nothing more than "White Christian Nationalists," an honest effort to try to understand what this actually means.
ID# 14457 -- 14457 -- Why so many of us were wrong about missile defense -- In the wake of the stunning success of the antimissile systems that protected Israel, reflections from a previous critic of such systems.
ID# 14460 -- 14460 -- To Fight Climate Change, We Need New ‘Political Technologies’ -- Welcome recognition that successfully fighting climate change will require major improvements in the political process we use to make decisions about climate related issues.
ID# 14462 -- 14462 -- The New Rules -- Exploring the policies, people, and ideas reshaping the global economy -- A report on the dramatic shifts that are taking place in the complex legal, political, and economic environment that determines the way in which peoples and countries interact with one another.
ID# 14463 -- 14463 -- Beware Cultural Drift -- Thoughtful reflections on the nature of cultural evolution and the dangers of the cosmopolitan, global monoculture which has led so many people to adopt such highly similar sets of beliefs.
ID# 14464 -- 14464 -- My First Amendment concerns with ‘The Anxious Generation’ -- Greg Lukianoff's words of caution regarding Jonathan Haidt's calls for sharp controls on social media for young people.
ID# 14466 -- 14466 -- Blue Morning -- An eye-opening report on the demographic changes that are transforming US politics and cultural relationships.
ID# 14467 -- 14467 -- The Three Point Plan to Fix the Democrats and Their Coalition -- Concrete steps the Democrats could take to broaden their appeal and reduce the chances of a second Trump Presidency.
ID# 14468 -- 14468 -- With Iran’s Strikes, Arab Countries Fear an Expanding Conflict -- In light of recent events, more thoughts on the way in which ongoing Mideast hostilities could escalate into a much bigger conflagration (and what might be done to avoid this).
ID# 14468 -- 14468 -- With Iran’s Strikes, Arab Countries Fear an Expanding Conflict -- In light of recent events, more thoughts on the way in which ongoing Mideast hostilities could escalate into a much bigger conflagration (and what might be done to avoid this).
ID# 14481 -- 14481 -- For Conversations You Dread, Try a Chatbot -- A crazy idea that might actually make some sense – practicing difficult conversations with AI chatbots.
ID# 14501 -- 14501 -- The Blind Centrist's Guide to Gaza -- A comprehensive argument explaining why the solution to the Gaza crisis cannot be found at the midpoint between Israeli and Palestinian perspectives.
ID# 14503 -- 14503 -- Why Israel Should Declare a Unilateral Cease-Fire in Gaza -- From Dennis Ross, a provocative, ambitious, and controversial proposal for countering Iran and defusing the crisis in Gaza.
ID# 14510 -- 14510 -- How to Negotiate Effectively With a Child -- Food for thought on one of the most difficult and important kinds of disputes -- disputes between parents and children.
ID# 14510 -- 14510 -- How to Negotiate Effectively With a Child -- Food for thought on one of the most difficult and important kinds of disputes -- disputes between parents and children.
ID# 14511 -- 14511 -- The End of Magical Debt Thinking -- For decades now, the US has been resolving "who gets what" distributional conflicts by running ever larger deficits. This article highlights the limits of this strategy.
ID# 14528 -- 14528 -- Not in Our Name -- From an Israeli perspective, reflections on the relationship between freedom of speech and efforts to limit campus protests.
ID# 14534 -- 14534 -- A suit alleges anti-Israel protest groups provide material support to Hamas -- The report on a legal claim that some of the groups behind the campus protests have direct ties to Hamas -- a legally recognized "foreign terrorist organization."
ID# 14537 -- 14537 -- Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not as Powerful as She Thinks She Is -- A hopeful and surprisingly persuasive argument that bipartisan governance is much healthier than it appears.
ID# 14540 -- 14540 -- Are we overproducing elites and instability? -- A perceptive argument that some of our most difficult conflicts stem from the fact that more people feel entitled to elite positions within society than society has to offer.
ID# 14542 -- 14542 -- Embrace your Inner Barbarian -- A provocative and challenging essay that asks today's highly educated elites to quit defending just their narrow interests and start defending the interests of society as a whole.
ID# 14548 -- 14548 -- The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education -- In light of today's campus protests, a look back at the long shadow cast by the vastly bigger and more consequential protests of the 1960s and early 70s.
ID# 14561 -- 14561 -- A Cheat Sheet to the Middle East’s Web of Friends and Enemies -- A short primer that attempts to shed light on an unbelievably complex topic -- the web of interrelationships that characterize today's Middle East.
ID# 14577 -- 14577 -- Confessions of a former antisemite -- In the context of the ongoing Gaza war, a personal and an in-depth look at the process of persuasion and the way in which fundamental beliefs change.
ID# 14579 -- 14579 -- Student activists or pro insurgents? -- An eye-opening analysis of internal campus protest documents revealing their interconnections, their funding, their command structure, their inner workings, and their goals.
ID# 14585 -- 14585 -- The Billionaires Who Are Threatening Democracy -- In his new book, the historian Quinn Slobodian writes about the ideologues who believe that society should prioritize capital, not people.
ID# 14586 -- 14586 -- Essential Partners -- EP gives people the means to strengthen relationships, deepen belonging, and renew hope in their communities through dialogue and other communication and collaboration tools.
ID# 14587 -- 14587 -- Livingroom Conversations -- LRC connects people across divides and within communities to build understanding through conversation.
ID# 14588 -- 14588 -- Fighting to Understand -- Fighting to Understand brings "ordinary people" together to learn and talk about contentious issues.
ID# 14589 -- 14589 -- Searh for Common Ground's The Team -- A story about Search's soap operas to teach reconciliation and inter-group understanding.
ID# 14590 -- 14590 -- The World’s Most Subversive Soap Operas -- A story about Search's soap operas to teach reconciliation and inter-group understanding.
ID# 14591 -- 14591 -- Trump likes the Oxford comma? That’s stunning, strange and disorienting. -- A surprising window into the sophisticated way in which President Trump cultivates his unsophisticated image.
ID# 14594 -- 14594 -- As Bird Flu Looms, the Lessons of Past Pandemics Take On New Urgency -- As we still struggle to decide what lessons we should learn from society's contentious COVID response, news that we may soon have to apply those lessons.
ID# 14596 -- 14596 -- A Likud MK admits, "the IDF has failed" and a public intellectual asks "how will we know when it's time to leave? -- A look at the hard questions Israelis are asking themselves as the decisive defeat of Hamas seems ever more distant.
ID# 14597 -- 14597 -- Thoughts on Dopamine Culture -- A thought-provoking exploration of both the utility and the downsides of humanity's shift toward shorter attention spans with ever quicker task switching and constant multitasking.
ID# 14598 -- 14598 -- ‘The Seeds Had Been Planted. Trump Didn’t Do It Himself.’ -- An examination of the longer-term origins of the authoritarian trend in US politics that President Trump now embodies.
ID# 14600 -- 14600 -- Hamas Shift to Guerrilla Tactics Raises Specter of Forever War for Israel -- A disturbing look at what the next phase of the Israeli/Hamas war might look like -- a phase that will require totally different tactics.
ID# 14601 -- 14601 -- Fareed Zakaria’s Speed Date With the Liberal World Order -- For an era in which so many people want to be "change agents" and, often, proponents of revolution, a 400-year retrospective on what past revolutions have produced.
ID# 14605 -- 14605 -- All Is Not Quiet In the Library Catalogs -- News that progressive political ideas are being used to reshape and distort the way in which we catalog and access the collective knowledge of humanity.
ID# 14606 -- 14606 -- Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation Is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists -- Something more to worry about, the many ways in which new technologies could be used by terrorists to mount more destructive and disruptive attacks.
ID# 14607 -- 14607 -- Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures -- The disturbing update on the surprisingly widespread incidence of scientific malpractice -- something that a society that depends upon technical expertise can't tolerate.
ID# 14608 -- 14608 -- What Trump Could Do in Foreign Policy Might Surprise the World -- For a time when the left talks about a possible Trump Presidency in almost exclusively apocalyptic terms, a more hopeful analysis of what a Trump foreign policy might actually entail.
ID# 14611 -- 14611 -- Secret Hamas Files Show How It Spied on Everyday Palestinians -- Another window into Hamas's authoritarian power and its ability to take their citizens into a ruinous war.
ID# 14616 -- 14616 -- Want to help Trump? Keep up the ‘White rural rage’ stereotyping. -- A timely warning for opponents of former President Trump, continuing to refer to his supporters in demeaning and dismissive ways drives the hyper-polarization spiral and strengthens his candidacy.
ID# 14619 -- 14619 -- Meet Necessities Like Necessities -- Despite its somewhat confusing title, this essay makes critically important points about the importance of making the sacrifices necessary to combat true threats.
ID# 14620 -- 14620 -- World’s Biggest Construction Project Gets a Reality Check -- News about an astonishingly ambitious Saudi effort to build 105 mile long skyscraper taller than the Empire State building (and an example of the absurdities of concentrated wealth).
ID# 14621 -- 14621 -- The Case for Hope -- From Nicholas Kristof, a timely reminder that, amidst all of our current difficulties, there are substantial reasons to be hopeful and optimistic.
ID# 14629 -- 14629 -- The End of the World as We Know It -- A review of an important new book on the danger posed by nuclear weapons and an appeal to put this threat at the top of our priority list.
ID# 14634 -- 14634 -- I Was a Republican Partisan. It Altered the Way I Saw the World. -- A personal account of the dangerous ways in which partisanship can cloud and distort one's view of the world and potential countermeasures.
ID# 14635 -- 14635 -- The Authoritarians Have the Momentum -- A must-read analysis explaining why authoritarians are enjoying so much success in their struggle against liberal democracies (and what might be done about it).
ID# 14640 -- 14640 -- Paging Senator Schumer … -- Amid the rising tide of antisemitism and calls to do something about it, a legal analysis of how this kind of prejudice falls through the cracks in our existing legal structure.
ID# 14641 -- 14641 -- How to Create a Society That Prizes Decency -- From David Brooks, an essay exploring practical things that we can do to cultivate basic decency -- a precondition for a democracy that works.
ID# 14644 -- 14644 -- When the Only Problem Was Climate Change -- A nostalgic look back to the time when we thought the world's only big, remaining problem was climate change. Now, sadly, we know (or should know) better.
ID# 14650 -- 14650 -- Can a 50-Year-Old Idea Save Democracy? -- A review and summary of an important new book highlighting Rawl's vision for a society in which we would all like to live -- one that is both fair and free.
ID# 14655 -- 14655 -- Israel’s war has killed 31 members of my family, yet it’s vital to speak out against Hamas -- From someone who has suffered immensely from the ongoing tragedy in Gaza, a plea to recognize and address Hamas' role in the conflict.
ID# 14664 -- 14664 -- Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show -- News from another, often neglected, front in the Ukrainian war -- the clandestine information battle being fought in the West,'s complex media environment.
ID# 14666 -- 14666 -- Back to Basics in the Middle East -- Four general principles that, if followed, would do much to improve chances of a positive outcome to the current Mideast crisis (and promote good democratic governance, more generally).
ID# 14670 -- 14670 -- Want to help renovate American democracy? Welcome to Democracy, Refreshed. -- From the Washington Post, the chance to sign up for free online course highlighting many of the things that can be done to improve US democracy.
ID# 14672 -- 14672 -- How to make a difference in the 2024 election -- From Matthew Yglesias, a list of things that those wanting to make a positive contribution in the coming election year might consider.
ID# 14673 -- 14673 -- What The Media Won’t Tell You About The Energy Transition -- A statistical look at just how badly the global energy transition is going -- an analysis that highlights the need to find cleaner ways of powering the developed world.
ID# 14676 -- 14676 -- Polls and Protests -- As we contemplate the latest wave of student protests, a look back in this 1971 analysis of the anti-Vietnam protests by prominent sociologist Seymour Martin Lipsett.
ID# 14681 -- 14681 -- How Hamas criticism vanished in The New York Times -- A statistical analysis of the New York Times coverage of the Israeli / Hamas war -- an analysis that demonstrates the success of Hamas' public relations strategy.
ID# 14682 -- 14682 -- God™: an ageing product outperforms expectations -- A thought provoking look at religion from an economics perspective.
ID# 14684 -- 14684 -- What My Soviet Life Taught Me About Censorship -- From someone who lived through a life of censorship in the former Soviet Union, reflections on the kind of censorship now being promoted in Western democracies.
ID# 14685 -- 14685 -- The Great Misinterpretation: How Palestinians View Israel -- A first-rate lecture that takes a long, historical look at the origins of Israeli/Palestinian antipathy -- a look that clarifies the complex origins of the contemporary conflict.
ID# 14688 -- 14688 -- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -- Security in our daily lives is key to our well-being. NATO’s purpose is to guarantee the freedom and security of its members through political and military means.
ID# 14689 -- 14689 -- Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) -- The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought — the most essential qualities of liberty.
ID# 14689 -- 14689 -- Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) -- The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought — the most essential qualities of liberty.
ID# 14690 -- 14690 -- Civil Rights Oral History Project. -- Detailed oral histories with former Community Relations Service consiliators learning how they transformed racial and other intergroup conflicts from highly destructive into constructive relationships
ID# 14691 -- 14691 -- Transparency International -- Transparency International is a global movement working in over 100 countries to end the injustice of corruption. It focuses on issues with the greatest impact on people’s lives and holding the powerful to account for the common good.
ID# 14691 -- 14691 -- Transparency International -- Transparency International is a global movement working in over 100 countries to end the injustice of corruption. It focuses on issues with the greatest impact on people’s lives and holding the powerful to account for the common good.
ID# 14692 -- 14692 -- Thieves of State -- A groundbreaking book by Sarah Chayes explaining the extent of corruption around the world and how it threatenes global security.
ID# 14693 -- 14693 -- USAID Anti-corruption Policy -- In line with the U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption, USAID's Anti-corruption Policy signals its commitment to countering corruption and outlines its plan for institutionalizing anti-corruption efforts across all its work,
ID# 14693 -- 14693 -- USAID Anti-corruption Policy -- In line with the U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption, USAID's Anti-corruption Policy signals its commitment to countering corruption and outlines its plan for institutionalizing anti-corruption efforts across all its work,
ID# 14694 -- 14694 -- OECD's Anti-corruption and Integrity Hub -- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's overarching objectives of its anti-corruption and integrity (ACI) work is to support trustworthy institutions and open, efficient and inclusive markets.
ID# 14694 -- 14694 -- OECD's Anti-corruption and Integrity Hub -- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's overarching objectives of its anti-corruption and integrity (ACI) work is to support trustworthy institutions and open, efficient and inclusive markets.
ID# 14700 -- 14700 -- A New Centrism Is Rising in Washington -- A persuasive argument that the conventional wisdom is wrong. Rather than being divided and dysfunctional, the US government has quietly and successfully been able to address a wide range of issues.
ID# 14706 -- 14706 -- See How Easily A.I. Chatbots Can Be Taught to Spew Disinformation -- In an information environment characterized by enormous quantities of information that is unreliable and often deliberately distorted, thoughts about how AI can be used to make the problem even worse.
ID# 14715 -- 14715 -- The Invisible Hand Strikes Back -- The "invisible hand" creates opportunities for anyone who can figure out better ways of dealing with any problem (including conflict problems). This is how complex social systems learn.
ID# 14722 -- 14722 -- Liberalism As a Way of Life -- An interview with the author of an important new book defending liberal democracy from its many detractors.
ID# 14726 -- 14726 -- Who’s in More Trouble: Israel or Iran? -- Despite its aggressive and apparently successful efforts to spread its influence around the Middle East, Iran's regime faces challenges that are at least as serious as those being faced by Israel.
ID# 14728 -- 14728 -- Never Bet Against Democracy in the Long Run -- An important and timely reminder that, despite its many problems, democracy has enormous advantages over other systems of social organization.
ID# 14730 -- 14730 -- How To Put a Country Back Together -- Perceptive thoughts, grounded in real-world situations, about how to make a diverse, pluralistic society really work.
ID# 14738 -- 14738 -- Canada’s Assault on Free Speech -- Canada is at the forefront of progressive efforts to promote "social justice" by controlling speech. This alarming article tells us just how far they've gone.
ID# 14745 -- 14745 -- Xi Jinping’s Recipe for Total Control: An Army of Eyes and Ears -- A report on what 21st-century authoritarianism looks like in today's China.
ID# 14747 -- 14747 -- One of the Deadliest Jobs in Mexico: Running for Office -- A window into violent political intimidation -- one of the scariest failure modes for democratic systems and efforts to curtail organized crime and governmental corruption.
ID# 14751 -- 14751 -- What Hamas Called Its Female Captives, and Why It Matters -- A detailed look at the complexities of translating Hamas' language regarding its female captives and the alarming meanings of the words they use.
ID# 14753 -- 14753 -- The Ugly Lessons of October 7 -- An analysis of the terrible precedents being set by Hamas' October 7 attack, Israel's response, and the global reaction.
ID# 14757 -- 14757 -- What Do I Owe the Dead of My Generation’s Mismanaged Wars? -- For Memorial Day, thoughts about how to remember those lost in ill-conceived and mismanaged conflicts and how to remember the wars in which they heroically fought.
ID# 14766 -- 14766 -- No Gaza aid delivered through US pier has been distributed to Palestinians, Pentagon says -- An update on the delivery of aid to Gaza using the new pier constructed by the US military (a pier that has since been badly damaged by storms).
ID# 14771 -- 14771 -- A Chill Has Fallen Over Jews in Publishing -- A not so hopeful story about the ways in which Jewish voices are being suppressed by the publishing industry.
ID# 14774 -- 14774 -- Maxims for the AI Age by Reid Hoffman -- Perceptive principles for guiding emerging AI technologies in ways that better protect us, while also allowing us to take advantage of the technology's potential.
ID# 14781 -- 14781 -- The 500 -- From Natan Sharansky, thoughts about the suppression of Jewish voices and the hopeful news that Columbia students are overcoming that suppression.
ID# 14785 -- 14785 -- Do We Still Understand How Wars Are Won? -- Reflections on the fact that, since World War II, the United States is not been in war that had absolutely, positively had to win -- a war like the one Ukrainians are now fighting.
ID# 14786 -- 14786 -- The Gender Gap Is Now a Gender Gulf -- As progressives focus on dismantling patriarchal power structures and protecting society from toxic masculinity, not so surprising news that the political divide between men and women is a chasm.
ID# 14788 -- 14788 -- Google’s weird AI answers hint at a fundamental problem -- Has Google's embarrassing Artificial Intelligence-based advice revealed that the technology is not really so intelligent?
ID# 14793 -- 14793 -- Embrace Pluralism over Racialism -- Thoughts on the complex relationship between race-based views of social equity, antisemitism, diversity, tolerance, and pluralism.
ID# 14800 -- 14800 -- The Psychology Of Being In A Minority -- From a thought-provoking conservative perspective, thoughts on what it's like to be a member of a minority group and the differing approaches taken by Obama and Biden.
ID# 14811 -- 14811 -- How Modern "Anti-Racists" Reject the Philosophy of MLK - with Coleman Hughes -- An article contrasting contemporary efforts to reckon with the United States' continuing history of racism and the approach taken by Martin Luther King.
ID# 14815 -- 14815 -- 1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds -- Sobering news about the increasing number of Americans who are starting to embrace violence as an alternative to our dysfunctional political system.
ID# 14816 -- 14816 -- The Untold Stories of Gazans -- This series of video interviews provides the rare look around Hamas' iron grip into what the people of Gaza are actually thinking.
ID# 14818 -- 14818 -- Putin wants Ukraine ceasefire on current frontlines, say sources -- A hopeful report suggesting that a "ripe" moment for negotiating an end of the war in Ukraine may be approaching.
ID# 14819 -- 14819 -- Decades of Denial: How Islamists Won the War Against Western Values -- A long-term look at the conflict between Islamic and Western values and the continuing struggle for dominance -- a big part of the larger context of the war between Israel and Hamas.
ID# 14823 -- 14823 -- Invisible memorials and the presence of absence -- An interesting report on an unusual way of memorializing terrible, politically charged events.
ID# 14826 -- 14826 -- What’s happening to all the aid sent to Gaza? -- An eye-opening report that illuminates one of the ways in which Hamas is interfering with the delivery of badly needed aid to the people of Gaza (and also cultivating global sympathy).
ID# 14828 -- 14828 -- The Shapeshifting Threat of Election Interference -- The Voting Rights Lab most recent report examines how election interference legislation has changed over the past three years and how this is likely to impact the 2024 election.
ID# 14829 -- 14829 -- Nine Major Proposals for Government Regulating Artificial Intelligence Favored by Very Large Bipartisan Majorities of Voters -- Public opinion polls show the public is strongly in favor of strong regulation of artificial intelligence.
ID# 14830 -- 14830 -- Where the public stands on social media and smartphones in the United States and Europe (May 2024) -- A More in Common survey on the impact of smartphones and social media on the lives of people in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany showed both pluses and minuses.
ID# 14831 -- 14831 -- Democratic Erosion Consortium. -- The Consortium is a collaboration between academics, students, policymakers, and practitioners that aims to help illuminate and combat threats to democracy both in the US and abroad.
ID# 14833 -- 14833 -- For Campus Protests (and Other Polarizing Issues), Do We Often See What We Expect To Find? -- It is important to recognize the ease with which we can disagree, as well as to engage with others with empathy and compassion, even though such a request is often difficult when it comes to contentious and emotional topics.
ID# 14836 -- 14836 -- Democracy 101 -- A program from Citizen Connect seeking to revitalize civic education as a key to raising more knowledgeable citizens and empowering us all.
ID# 14837 -- 14837 -- Change the System -- Many Americans agree, our political system is broken. Join forces with those working towards a more perfect American democratic system.
ID# 14839 -- 14839 -- ‘Christian Nationalism,’ ‘Never-Trumpers’ and Other Biased Terms This Election Season -- Catchy terms are often polarizing and exaggerated, making them common in popular tabloids and on social media. This makes it easier for media consumers to get trapped in filter bubbles.
ID# 14840 -- 14840 -- What is the Antisemitism Awareness Act? -- A Fulcrum article examining the key elements of the Antisemitism Awareness Act, its intentions, the potential impacts it may have on curbing this age-old prejudice and concerns with its implementation.
ID# 14841 -- 14841 -- Narendra Modi’s War on Civil Society on the Cusp -- As India undergoes an existential election for its democracy and future, the fate of its civil society hangs in balance. Thousands of NGOs have already wilted in the populist heat, and worse is expected if Modi wins again.
ID# 14842 -- 14842 -- Calling People Forward Instead of Out: Ten Essential Steps -- Excerpted from a book, "How We Ended Racism," this article explains that calling out leads to a cancel culture which is ineffective and further divides, while calling in is much more effective at addressing racism.
ID# 14844 -- 14844 -- Voices for the Future -- Interviews with leading figures in the fields of climate change, democracy, economics, healthcare, education, community, trauma healing, activism, diversity, and much, much more.
ID# 14845 -- 14845 -- Advancing a More Global Agenda for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence -- International AI governance enshrines assumptions from the more well-resourced Global North. These efforts must adapt to better account for the range of harms AI incurs globally.
ID# 14846 -- 14846 -- Little changes, Big Impacts by Jake Klaus -- The beginning of a series on data analytics and how it can be used to identify small "tweaks" to a group, organization, community, or system that can create significant change.
ID# 14847 -- 14847 -- Do Americans Prefer a World Without TikTok? -- A new report exploring Americans’ attitudes and beliefs around the benefits of social media and support for various government regulations as well as how they compare to views in the UK, France, and Germany.
ID# 14848 -- 14848 -- Daniel Lubetzky TED Talk: Replacing “Us vs. Them” with a Movement of Builders -- Founding Partner Daniel Lubetzky publicly launches Builders, a new platform that takes the Starts With Us mission (equipping citizens to overcome toxic polarization and solve our toughest problems) global.
ID# 14850 -- 14850 -- Mood of the Nation: Angry -- Nine in ten Americans can name either a recent news event or something about American politics that made them angry, while only half could identify a recent news event or something about American politics that made them proud.
ID# 14852 -- 14852 -- Democracy Lighthouse -- From the Toda Peace Institute, a new web portal designed to make it easier to find information about the world's "massively parallel" array of efforts to strengthen democracy.
ID# 14853 -- 14853 -- The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism -- From Freedom House, a report on the intersection between old-fashioned authoritarianism and the new, 21st-century digital information systems.
ID# 14857 -- 14857 -- Democrats Should Embrace the “New Centrism" -- At a time when politics is dominated by the extremes of the right and the left, an argument that Democrats ought to move toward the center -- home of the all-important swing voter.
ID# 14859 -- 14859 -- The Real "Deep State" -- A revealing essay exploring the deep and largely hidden system through which private interests are able to influence public policy.
ID# 14862 -- 14862 -- Congress Got More Done When the Greatest Generation Ran It -- An exploration of the way in which the "greatest" (World War II) generation approached political issues and an argument that they did a better job of making democracy work.
ID# 14865 -- 14865 -- Less Marriage, Less Sex, Less Agreement -- Thoughtful thoughts on the changing way in which people are thinking about romantic relationships and the political implications of increasing tensions between men and women.
ID# 14867 -- 14867 -- Why Biden lost -- It is always a good idea to anticipate things that could go wrong before they actually do (and in time to change plans). This article applies this principle to the upcoming election.
ID# 14872 -- 14872 -- Boredom at the End of History, Part I -- From Francis Fukuyama, his thoughts about how well his "end of history" thesis has survived the test of time.
ID# 14875 -- 14875 -- On Black Swans, Gray Rhinos, and the 2024 Election -- For those trying to protect the integrity of the upcoming election, a useful guide to the many different contingencies that we need to prepare for.
ID# 14876 -- 14876 -- The new polarization that explains our politics -- An article explaining a different kind polarization -- one that divides politically active citizens from those who are too busy or too disillusioned to get involved.
ID# 14877 -- 14877 -- We Are Starting to Enjoy Hatred -- An article suggesting that there is an enjoyable component to hatred -- a perverse dynamic that reinforces the extremely destructive ways of thinking.
ID# 14878 -- 14878 -- U.S., Chinese Defense Chiefs Confirm Plan to Reopen Hotlines in First Face-to-Face Meeting - The Wall Street Journal. -- A glimmer of good news and increasingly dangerous world -- the US and China are taking steps to reduce the risk of accidental war by reopening the hot line between their respective military commands.
ID# 14881 -- 14881 -- Al Qaeda and Iran Salute the U.S. Campus -- A report on eye-opening statements from Al Qaeda and the Iranians welcoming the support that they are receiving from the campus protests.
ID# 14884 -- 14884 -- What Does It Mean for Something to Be Socially Constructed? -- There are obviously big differences between objective reality and the way in which societies interpret that reality. This article compares the various ways in which we try to understand these differences.
ID# 14890 -- 14890 -- The Rise of Poverty Inc. -- In coining the phrase, military-industrial complex, Dwight Eisenhower gave us the name for the way in which conflicts of interest distort public policy. This article looks at the poverty industrial complex.
ID# 14894 -- 14894 -- Our Strange Politics of Meaning Assignment -- A thought-provoking essay that explores the fuzzy relationship between what people actually do and what other people think those actions mean.
ID# 14896 -- 14896 -- Betting on the Tortoise: Policy Incrementalism and How Philanthropy’s Support Can Turn Small Sustained Steps into Big Impact -- As a counterpoint to today's many calls for rapid, revolutionary change as the solution to our many problems, a reminder of the virtues of the strategy based on slow, steady, incremental improvement.
ID# 14899 -- 14899 -- Undergraduate Commencement Address by Ken Burns -- A number of our readers recommended this commencement address as a great place to start putting our problems in perspective and thinking constructively about the future.
ID# 14908 -- 14908 -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali: We Have Been Subverted -- A look at how Russia's four-step subversion and destabilization strategy applies to the ongoing Israeli/Hamas crisis (and deteriorating support for Western values and democracy).
ID# 14909 -- 14909 -- A Pragmatic Post-War Gaza Plan is Needed Now -- An argument that some sort of "day after" plan is critically needed to prevent Gaza from falling into anarchy and chaos following the war's end.
ID# 14911 -- 14911 -- Matti Friedman: Northern Israel Is on Fire -- An update on the simmering war between Israel and Hezbollah -- a war that could quickly exploded in ways that would be even more destructive than the ongoing war in Gaza.
ID# 14915 -- 14915 -- Why Israel should NOT have a “day after plan” for Gaza -- An argument that "day after" planning for the Israel/Hamas war is impossible as long as Hamas continues to be able to threaten reasonable people who might want to take part in such a plan.
ID# 14918 -- 14918 -- They turned into monsters -- From German Nobel Prize winner Herta Muller, reflections on October 7, the Israel/Hamas war, and the global rise of anti-Semitism.
ID# 14919 -- 14919 -- New Rule: Gender Apartheid | Real Time with Bill Maher -- A Bill Maher video that exposes the contradiction between the social justice movement's support for women's and LBGTQ rights and its support for Hamas.
ID# 14920 -- 14920 -- Courage, the most important virtue -- An inspiring TED talk explaining the critical role courageous individual action plays in resisting tyranny and authoritarianism.
ID# 14923 -- 14923 -- Is this Russia’s 4-Step long-game to destabilize the U.S.A.? -- An extremely important article that explains a long-standing Russian strategy for destabilizing its adversaries and many ways in which the West is now falling victim to that strategy.
ID# 14925 -- 14925 -- The Sins of the Educated Class -- A must read article that explains how the actions of today's highly educated, "knowledge" workers continue to inflame the populist right in ways that genuinely threaten the viability of modern society.
ID# 14926 -- 14926 -- MAGA Turns Against the Constitution -- From a conservative perspective, disturbing news that Trump supporters continue to lose faith in the Constitution and are actively looking for ways to get around its constraints.
ID# 14927 -- 14927 -- The Academic Proletariat Goes on Strike at the University of California -- A report on a new front in the campus Gaza protests -- a "wildcat" solidarity strike by University of California teaching assistants (who are, surprisingly, represented by the United Auto Workers).
ID# 14931 -- 14931 -- How Elites Have Empowered The Far Right -- From a conservative perspective, an eye-opening look at how the left's open immigration policies are, in country after country, empowering the far right.
ID# 14936 -- 14936 -- An Object Lesson From Covid on How to Destroy Public Trust -- Reflections on new information about the government's COVID response lost the public's trust and what this implies about how we might better handle future crises.
ID# 14938 -- 14938 -- Hollow Rebels -- A report on Robert Kagan's new book on the long-running conflict between liberalism and it's many detractors.
ID# 14946 -- 14946 -- Things Worth Remembering: Why Forgiveness Matters -- A retrospective look at what Hannah Arendt has to teach us about forgiveness and its role in helping us move beyond the terrible, unrightable wrongs of the past.
ID# 14949 -- 14949 -- Why Russia Is Happy at War -- In the wake of huge losses still being suffered in Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine, a somewhat surprising look at Russia's patriotic unity (and the danger it presents to the rest of the world).
ID# 14955 -- 14955 -- Gaza Chief’s Brutal Calculation: Civilian Bloodshed Will Help Hamas -- The real reason behind mounting civilian casualties in Gaza -- a strategic choice by the Hamas leadership (a choice that is proving extremely effective).
ID# 14986 -- 14986 -- Reprise: The Power Strategy Mix — Empowering the Pursuit of the Common Good -- Power takes three forms that can be mixed and matched: coercion, exchange, and integration. The "recipe" for the optimal "power strategy mix" changes depending on whom you are trying to influence.
ID# 14991 -- 14991 -- Our Fathers Marched With King. Here’s What They Would Say to Activists Today. -- From the children of some of Martin Luther King's most important allies, thoughts about the differences between civil rights advocacy in the King era and today.
ID# 14994 -- 14994 -- 36 people who made the world freer for the rest of us -- Profiles of 36 individuals who, in their own way, demonstrate how individual, "massively parallel" efforts can help advance society as a whole.
ID# 14995 -- 14995 -- Subverting the Nuclear Family -- An exploration of the intersection between large-scale societal "subversion" and the weakening of what is probably our most important social unit -- the family.
ID# 14996 -- 14996 -- Taking on China the Right Way -- Reflections on one of today's most important challenges, figuring out how to channel our intensifying conflict with China in constructive directions.
ID# 15000 -- 15000 -- The ‘Climate Crisis’ Fades Out -- News that the general public may be losing interest in climate related issues as the "issue attention" cycle winds down.
ID# 15001 -- 15001 -- What’s Wrong With Congress (And How to Fix It) -- An example of the kind of constructive problem-solving that can, over time, help restore the public's trust in its government.
ID# 15002 -- 15002 -- The U.S. Economy Reaches Superstar Status -- Surprising news about how spectacularly well the US economy is doing despite its destructive politics and widespread sense of pessimism. The invisible hand actually works!
ID# 15003 -- 15003 -- Far-Left Extremism Enabled Right-Wing Victories -- From a more conservative perspective, a pretty persuasive argument that the extremes of the left are a major factor in the rise of the extreme right.
ID# 15004 -- 15004 -- America Is Losing the Arab World -- A look at how the war in Israel is undermining US relations with the Muslim world and the geopolitical implications of that shift -- a big part of the reason US policy often seems inconsistent.
ID# 15005 -- 15005 -- Trump Would Be Long Gone if Only We Could … -- A summary, with lots of links, into the efforts of political scientists to understand President Trump's remarkable political resilience.
ID# 15007 -- 15007 -- Trump’s Plan to Expand Executive Power -- In the wake of President Biden's many efforts to claim an expansive view of presidential power, a look at Republican plans to do something similar, should they win the next election.
ID# 15008 -- 15008 -- Electing prosecutors is a terrible idea. Trump’s conviction shows why. -- A pretty convincing argument against electing prosecutors and especially prosecutors who promise to pursue specific political figures.
ID# 15010 -- 15010 -- Is Israel Guilty of Perfidy? -- In the context of the Gaza war and the recent hostage rescue, and exploration of the concept of "perfidy" -- prohibitions on launching military attacks while pretending to be civilians.
ID# 15011 -- 15011 -- I Went to Cover a Protest. I Was Surrounded by a Mob. -- A personal account of what it was like to be a Jewish reporter at the recent pro-Palestinian protests in Manhattan.
ID# 15013 -- 15013 -- No, You Don’t Have the Power to Stop Climate Change -- An important reminder that efforts to limit climate change ultimately depend upon strong support from the developing world -- something that will require massive increases in carbon free energy production.
ID# 15014 -- 15014 -- What Exactly Did Justice Alito Say That Was Wrong? -- Amid all of the turmoil over Justice Alito's surreptitiously recorded comments -- a look at the ethical questions involved,
ID# 15016 -- 15016 -- Hamas terrorists are playing the West for fools -- An argument that many in the West are being tricked by Hamas into supporting policies and actions that they would normally find abhorrent.
ID# 15017 -- 15017 -- America Can’t Do Without Immigrants -- A pretty comprehensive overview of the many ways in which immigration benefits our society.
ID# 15018 -- 15018 -- What J.D. Vance Believes -- An interview with Republican Senator J.D. Vance that tries to get beyond simple, left-wing demonization and understand his point of view.
ID# 15018 -- 15018 -- What J.D. Vance Believes -- An interview with Republican Senator J.D. Vance that tries to get beyond simple, left-wing demonization and understand his point of view.
ID# 15023 -- 15023 -- The Terrorism Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again -- News that the US counterterrorism establishment is growing increasingly alarmed about the possibility that tensions swirling around Gaza will lead to renewed terrorist attacks in the West.
ID# 15025 -- 15025 -- Gen Z Palestinians See Door Slamming Shut on Coexistence With Israel -- An article describing what it's like to be a young Palestinian adult witnessing the collapse of prospects for a peaceful future.
ID# 15026 -- 15026 -- Can the Constitution Reconcile America? -- A first rate, must-read article defending the U.S. Constitution and its many mechanisms for forcing citizens to compromise and work together.
ID# 15029 -- 15029 -- How Babies Are Made -- A terrific overview of what the process of starting a family has become in the contemporary world.
ID# 15030 -- 15030 -- An epidemic of scientific fakery threatens to overwhelm publishers -- More information about the massive scandal associated with fake scientific studies. Our ability to solve the complex challenges that we face depends upon finding some way to fix this.
ID# 15033 -- 15033 -- Things Worth Remembering: The Indispensability of Men -- Amid all of the criticism of men as patriarchal oppressors, a welcome Father's Day article highlighting the contributions that men make.
ID# 15034 -- 15034 -- Something Is Wrong -- A perceptive exploration of the tension between ideological and people-centered politics.
ID# 15037 -- 15037 -- The Resistance to a New Trump Administration Has Already Started -- Preliminary information about what all-out, us-versus-them politics is likely to look like should President Trump be reelected.
ID# 15038 -- 15038 -- Effective Altruism Is Flawed. But What’s the Alternative? -- For those who recognize that good intentions are not enough, reflections on what makes altruistic actions genuinely effective.
ID# 15041 -- 15041 -- The New Cynicism Isn't Like the Old Cynicism -- An argument that the cynicism that we are seeing today is much more cynical and dangerous than the cynicism of yesterday.
ID# 15042 -- 15042 -- The Cause That Turned Idealists Into Authoritarian Zealots -- In the context of the history of the Communist Movement, an examination of how idealistic campaigns can turn into authoritarian movements.
ID# 15044 -- 15044 -- From Pride to Alienation -- A critical look at tensions that have arisen within the LGBTQIA+ following the successful campaign to legalize same-sex marriage.
ID# 15047 -- 15047 -- Introduction to the Symbolic Economy -- An exploration of what is, for us at least, a useful new word -- the symbolic economy.
ID# 15048 -- 15048 -- Political Scientists Want to Know Why We Hate One Another This Much -- A compilation, with lots of links, of the things that the latest political science research is teaching us about hyper-polarization.
ID# 15050 -- 15050 -- At $25 Each, Cigarettes Are Turning Gaza Aid Trucks Into Targets -- The report on the surprising relationship between the movement of aid into Gaza, cigarette smuggling, $25 apiece cigarettes, lawless gangs, and the suffering of the people of Gaza.
ID# 15054 -- 15054 -- What Will Become of American Civilization? -- An in-depth look at the complex societal trends swirling around Phoenix and what they have to tell us about the future of the United States.
ID# 15055 -- 15055 -- Journalism Needs Cultural Adjacency -- A perceptive analysis of how reporting suffers when there are deep cultural differences between journalists and the people that they are writing about.
ID# 15056 -- 15056 -- My First Job, at the Stanford Internet Observatory -- A first person account of the rise and fall of the Stanford Internet Observatory -- an effort to control online disinformation that has been accused of promoting its own brand of disinformation.
ID# 15057 -- 15057 -- The Photo-Negative Ideology -- A perceptive analysis of the complex psychological process through which we shape the storylines that enable us to make sense of the world in which we live.
ID# 15058 -- 15058 -- Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time -- A report on an alarming study that suggests that factories that grind up plastics to recycle them are actually the biggest source of micro-plastic pollution. Proof that good intentions are not enough.
ID# 15059 -- 15059 -- Rupa Subramanya: I’m Stuck Between the Woke Left and the Nativist Right -- An anguished appeal for a revitalized political center that avoids extremes on both the left and the right.
ID# 15062 -- 15062 -- Why Activists Keep Failing the Causes That Fire Them Up -- A timely analysis of the factors that determine whether the efforts of activists will ultimately produce the desired results.
ID# 15063 -- 15063 -- No, I Don’t Want to Protest -- A personal essay that explains why they don't believe that public protests are a very effective way of bringing about desired changes.
ID# 15064 -- 15064 -- Is the Partisan Divide Too Big to Be Bridged? -- A major New York Times report on the many ways in which people are trying to bridge the political divide.
ID# 15067 -- 15067 -- What to Do About the Gender Divide -- A Gen Z essay exploring the many ways in which the deepening gender divide is likely to adversely affect their future and thoughts about what to do about it.
ID# 15069 -- 15069 -- Why They Don’t Fight: The Surprising Endurance of the Democratic Peace -- For those trying to understand how to preserve the peace and avoid war, an article exploring what is, perhaps, the most effective strategy -- democracy.
ID# 15073 -- 15073 -- ‘The Party of the Ultrarich and the Ultra-poor’ -- An examination of the demographic characteristics of the Democratic Party -- a party that has lost its middle class base of support.
ID# 15076 -- 15076 -- Is Populism Possible Without Demagoguery? -- An essay exploring a critically important topic -- building a constructive, populist, political movement.
ID# 15079 -- 15079 -- Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.? -- An interesting little quiz that allows us all to see for ourselves just how far AI-driven image creation has come.
ID# 15083 -- 15083 -- Attack of the Crypto-Nazis! -- A critical look at progressives who demonize their working-class political opponents, rather than trying to understand and respond to their complaints.
ID# 15084 -- 15084 -- Revitalizing Political Leadership -- A special issue of the journal Democracy, examining ways in which talented and civically minded citizens can be encouraged to enter public service and presents case studies of where that has already happened to good ends.
ID# 15086 -- 15086 -- Elon Musk is making political debate more toxic — here’s how to change course -- An op-ed by our colleague Zachary Elwood using the Elon Musk story as an "attention getter" to get readers (and high profile media outlets) to start thinking about polarization as a serious problem.
ID# 15087 -- 15087 -- Trust for Civic Life -- Trust for Civic Life pools funds from philanthropists and investing them in locally-led civic programming, bringing Americans together to solve shared problems and move our democracy forward.
ID# 15088 -- 15088 -- On Relational Infrastructure -- Relational infrastructure refers to the social connections, interactions, and collective intelligence that underpin a community, enabling them to work together effectively, pool their resources, and amplify their impact.
ID# 15089 -- 15089 -- Wicked Problems-Wise Cities - Intro video 1 -- This first of 3 videos by Martin Carcasson focuses on how the wicked problems lens can help reframe public issues to transform engagement in more productive ways.
ID# 15093 -- 15093 -- Thriving Together Springboard -- A systems approach to recovering from COVID, this "springboard for equitable recovery and resilience in communities across America" can be applied to future challenges as well.
ID# 15094 -- 15094 -- America Must Face Its Civic Crisis -- Politics is no longer a space for civic inquiry, argument, and creativity, but a place where civic hope goes to die. But it’s not dead yet. Everyday Americans are demonstrating how a little civic hope can ignite a chain reaction to build more.
ID# 15095 -- 15095 -- Not Invited to the Party Primary: Independent Voters and the Problem with Closed Primaries -- This report examines who independent voters are, how many there are, shows how they are excluded from primaries, and presents solutions to that problem.
ID# 15096 -- 15096 -- Are You Willing to Walk a Mile in Their Media Shoes? -- Distorted views of our political opponents often lead us to interpret their news and their positions in the worst possible way. Try watching "their" news to see where they are coming from.
ID# 15097 -- 15097 -- Toda Peace Institute Global Outlook - June 20.2024 -- Global Outlook articles from Toda Peace Institute’s expert commentators focus on significant developments in treaties and agreements, geopolitical relationships and international legal decisions.
ID# 15098 -- 15098 -- Local Election Officials Survey — May 2024 -- Since 2020, 92 percent of local election officials have taken steps to increase election security for voters, election workers, and election infrastructure.
ID# 15099 -- 15099 -- A new kind of political compass: The BridgeUSA Temperament Scale -- This scale is a measurement of how willing someone across the political spectrum is to engage with those who believe differently.
ID# 15100 -- 15100 -- From Discourse to Discord: Dissecting Antisemitism on Campus -- A discussion between two experts on the nature of antisemitism and anti-Muslim attitudes on US campuses.
ID# 15103 -- 15103 -- Democracy's Good News: The Role of Business in Democracy from The Democracy Group -- Host Jenna Spinelle explores the intersection between business and democracy, highlighting the crucial role of business in supporting democracy through consumer trust and solving problems.
ID# 15104 -- 15104 -- The coming attacks on nonprofits -- Rachel Kleinfeld argues that the far right and far left want to eliminate organizations that challenge them.
ID# 15105 -- 15105 -- Violent campus protests are not about freedom -- An opinion piece in the Fulcrum asking where the adults are on college campuses pointing out the errors in student protester's beliefs and behavior. "Clearly," they say, "the kids are not alright. But neither are the adults."
ID# 15108 -- 15108 -- Generate Democracy! -- An open LinkedIn Group for the Intermovement Impact Project, an effort to build a "movement of many movements," all working to strengthen U.S. democracy in myriad ways.
ID# 15109 -- 15109 -- The Inter-Movement Impact Project -- IMIP is connecting pro-democracy leaders, reformers, & change agents, who are working to strengthen American democracy, ethical government, civic health, social cohesion, and social justice at the national, state, and local levels.
ID# 15110 -- 15110 -- Cohesion as Murmuration -- Another way of looking at systems and the complexity of social movements.
ID# 15111 -- 15111 -- Imagining the Robust Deliberative City: Elevating the Conversations We Need to Support Democracy -- How do we elevate the conversations we need to support a healthy democracy? This is best done at the local level, where people already have relationships, local knowledge of issues, and stakes in the outcome.
ID# 15112 -- 15112 -- Grand Bargain Project -- Together, We Are Addressing Six Challenges Critical For Our Democracy And The American People To Thrive: Economic Mobility, Education, Health Care, Climate Change, National Debt and the Tax Code.
ID# 15113 -- 15113 -- Sam Daley Harris on NPR’s 1A, January 22, 2024 -- Sam Daley-Harris is a leader and innovator in the field of citizen advocacy. This is his talk on NPR's 1A on how ordinary citizens can get re-engaged and effective in our democratic processes.
ID# 15114 -- 15114 -- Reclaiming Our Democracy' book urges advocacy beyond hashtags and petitions -- Sam Daley-Harris talks about how everyday people can take democracy back into their own hands.
ID# 15115 -- 15115 -- Democracy is US -- A nonpartisan nonprofit, dedicated to transforming democracy into a system that genuinely serves all citizens by fostering enlivening conversations, actions, and events that empower and inspire citizens to preserve and vitalize democracy.
ID# 15116 -- 15116 -- The Village Square -- Building the town hall of the 21st century across the partisan divide. A nervy bunch of liberals and conservatives who believe that disagreement and dialogue make for a good conversation, a good country, and a good time.
ID# 15117 -- 15117 -- The One America Movement -- The One America Movement partners with faith communities across religious, political, and racial divides to confront toxic polarization in our society. Our vision is a resilient, strong, and united country working together to solve our common challenges.
ID# 15118 -- 15118 -- Faith Over Division Tour -- Bringing together people of faith to find hope and a shared future in the midst of toxic divisiveness.
ID# 15119 -- 15119 -- We are Peacemakers: A Fellowship for Evangelical Leaders -- The Fellowship seeks to create a more unified Church that is more resilient to toxic forms of division and ready to lead peacemaking efforts in their community and beyond.
ID# 15120 -- 15120 -- On Relational Facilitation: Supporting the Creative Potential of Divergent Perspectives -- In this blog post, Rosa Zubizarreta explores the potential of participatory processes for supporting new forms of governance, which she illustrates with their use in Austria and Germany.
ID# 15121 -- 15121 -- Bridging Movement (BMAC) Goals & Measures Program -- This is the home of the Social Cohesion Impact Measurement (SCIM) tool - a resource empowering bridging groups and other institutions to evaluate and measure the impact of their programs.
ID# 15122 -- 15122 -- Practitioner Mobilization For Democracy -- A gateway for conflict practitioners to more effectively engage in the pro-democracy movement. It's about turning your skills into action, providing clear pathways for participation, and fostering a community of practice where we all learn and grow together.
ID# 15123 -- 15123 -- Fix the News -- Fix The News is an independent, subscriber-supported publication that reports good news from around the world, read by 55,000 people from 195 countries.
ID# 15128 -- 15128 -- Dialogue Lab: America | Documentary Film (2022) -- A video about Ideos Institute's experiment testing whether constructive dialogue is possible in today’s polarized culture, and if so, how dialogue might be a first step in healing our nation.
ID# 15132 -- 15132 -- Detect Fakes -- Detect Fakes is research project hosted at Northwestern University by researchers at the Kellogg School of Management to examine how people distinguish truth from fiction in online media, especially as synthetic media becomes more and more realistic.
ID# 15140 -- 15140 -- Why Certainty Can Be Dangerous - A Chat with Ilana Redstone -- "Certainty is the thing that justifies outrage. Certainty that you're right, certainty that the other person is a horrible person."
ID# 15140 -- 15140 -- Why Certainty Can Be Dangerous - A Chat with Ilana Redstone -- "Certainty is the thing that justifies outrage. Certainty that you're right, certainty that the other person is a horrible person."
ID# 15141 -- 15141 -- Bridge USA -- BridgeUSA is a multi-partisan student movement that champions viewpoint diversity, responsible discourse, and a solution-oriented political culture.
ID# 15142 -- 15142 -- More Perfect Union -- More Perfect Union is a nonprofit education, advocacy, and journalism organization with a mission to build power for the working class.We pair reporting with activism to win policy fights that support families and the working class.
ID# 15143 -- 15143 -- Mismatch by AllSides -- With Mismatch, students talk to other students across the country, inspiring them to connect beyond their immediate world and build a healthy democracy - without leaving the classroom.
ID# 15145 -- 15145 -- Albert Einstein Institution's 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action List -- Gene Sharp's list of all the ways people can engage in conflict nonviolently, which results that are usually better than what might be obtained through violence.
ID# 15147 -- 15147 -- You'll Never Guess Where Red and Blue Agree — BCB #106 -- Another reminder that Red and Blue don’t disagree as much as we think
ID# 15148 -- 15148 -- Israelis Are Not Watching the Same War You Are -- The Israeli journalist Amit Segal discusses Benny Gantz’s departure from the war cabinet, Israel’s shift to the right and whether a new theory of security is emerging in Israeli politics.
ID# 15149 -- 15149 -- The ‘Omnicause’ Is Collapsing -- An exploration of the contradictions that arise when you try to simplistically bifurcate the world into two groups -- oppressors and the oppressed.
ID# 15150 -- 15150 -- U.S. Foreign Policy Wanders Aimlessly -- A critique of the Biden Administration's foreign policy that argues that it makes a serious effort by assuming that China, Russia and Iran all want ‘stability.’
ID# 15151 -- 15151 -- How an all-out Israel war could rope in the US and other countries -- An update on a prospects for war between Israel and Hezbollah ad an explanation of why that would be vastly more catastrophic.
ID# 15152 -- 15152 -- The Child Soldiers of Ethnic Studies -- An insightful contribution to efforts to understand how so many "privileged" young people are turning against the system that granted them all of those privileges.
ID# 15153 -- 15153 -- Salman Rushdie’s Beautiful Revenge -- A hideous attack is transformed into a statement of bloodied but unbowed humanism.
ID# 15156 -- 15156 -- The Brutal Syllogism of this War is a Deathtrap for Israel -- An honest look at the extraordinarily difficult strategic challenge posed to Israel by Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
ID# 15157 -- 15157 -- American by the Grace of God -- Reflections on the complex issues surrounding immigration from two grateful immigrants to the United States.
ID# 15159 -- 15159 -- How America Got Into This Omnishambles -- An analysis of the factors underlying the ongoing collapse of Democratic prospects with important lessons for the future.
ID# 15160 -- 15160 -- It's Time to Start Using the Term 'Palestinian Civilian' Correctly -- The protection of Gaza's innocent civilians depends upon clearly distinguishing them from combatants posing as civilians.
ID# 15164 -- 15164 -- When Progressive Ideals Become a Luxury -- A video explaining Rob Henderson's notion of "luxury beliefs" -- things that the relatively wealthy can believe because they are insulated from the downsides of those beliefs.
ID# 15165 -- 15165 -- This Is What Elite Failure Looks Like -- An essay that helps us understand why there is such a widespread revolt against the elites at the top of so many democratic societies.
ID# 15166 -- 15166 -- My Unsettling Interview With Steve Bannon -- From David Brooks, an interview with Steve Bannon that reveals much about the anti-elite, revolutionary pressures that are simmering beneath the surface of US society.
ID# 15167 -- 15167 -- The Biden-Replacement Operation -- A perceptive look at the delicate mechanics of replacing Biden as the Democratic Presidential nominee.
ID# 15171 -- 15171 -- The Protest Trap -- From Amanda Ripley, three research-based lessons about how to respond constructively to fear, rage, and grief.
ID# 15175 -- 15175 -- Troubling News From the Shit-Stirring Department -- A tongue-in-cheek article with an important message -- we are not as divided as inflammatory media sources would lead us to believe.
ID# 15176 -- 15176 -- The Roots of Progressive Radicalism: Nellie Bowles vs. Musa al-Gharbi -- A review and summary of two new books the try to help us understand the evolution (and radicalization) of the progressive movement.
ID# 15183 -- 15183 -- Will the Center Hold? -- A review and summary of an important new book exploring the philosophical foundations and political viability of centrism around the globe.
ID# 15184 -- 15184 -- Elite misinformation is an underrated problem -- An insightful article exploring a different, and very important, source of inaccurate worldview images -- the shortcomings of elite, expert opinion.
ID# 15191 -- 15191 -- A Political Base Is Only a Base -- A reminder that winning elections requires strong support from moderate "swing" voters. A fired-up base of true believers will never be enough.
ID# 15194 -- 15194 -- No One Really Knows How Interest Rates Work -- An important reminder about the complexity of the global economic system and the limitations of our ability to understand and manipulate that system.
ID# 15199 -- 15199 -- The World Is Realigning -- While we have been talking about the hyper-polarization that has emerged within so many countries, a different kind of polarization between those countries.
ID# 15200 -- 15200 -- Mind the Gap -- An essay exploring the chasm between what we know is true -- and what we feel comfortable saying out loud.
ID# 15203 -- 15203 -- The ‘MAGA Supreme Court’ Doesn’t Exist -- A reassuring analysis of recent Supreme Court decisions that argues that, while conservative in its legal orientation, the Court is upholding the rule of law and not merely rubberstamping the MAGA agenda.
ID# 15206 -- 15206 -- Rachel Kleinfeld on the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump and the Rise of Political Violence in America -- In this emergency podcast, Yascha Mounk and Rachel Kleinfeld discuss how to prevent a spiral of violence.
ID# 15207 -- 15207 -- How Hamas Is Fighting in Gaza: Tunnels, Traps and Ambushes -- For those trying to help protect Gaza's civilian population, important information about how, exactly, Hamas fighters are embedding themselves in that population.
ID# 15213 -- 15213 -- It's the Internet, Dummy! -- More thoughts on how, exactly, the Internet has transformed our collective consciousness.
ID# 15218 -- 15218 -- Francis Fukuyama on Global Chaos (and Why You Don't Need to Despair About It) -- Nutritious food for thought for anyone trying to make sense of our turbulent time.
ID# 15222 -- 15222 -- A New Age of Materials Is Dawning, for Everything From Smartphones to Missiles -- A description of the new, and largely unrecognized, technology that may turn out to be hugely consequential -- hopefully, in a genuinely positive way.
ID# 15228 -- 15228 -- It Takes Too Many Studies for the Government to Do the Right Thing -- An article about the "analysis paralysis" trap that explains much of why our government has so much trouble for solving problems.
ID# 15229 -- 15229 -- James Carville: Biden Won’t Win. Democrats Need a Plan. Here’s One. -- An intriguing set of ideas about how Democrats might successfully rebound from a Biden decision to abandon his quest for a second term.
ID# 15232 -- 15232 -- The Great Democratic Lawfare Bust -- A retrospective and critical look at the failure of the Democratic "lawfare" strategy which sought to use criminal prosecutions to deny President Trump a second chance at the Presidency.
ID# 15237 -- 15237 -- The Coming ‘Summer of Resistance’ -- A description of the "Behind Enemy Lines" -- a mysterious coalition of groups with a disruptive strategy focused on advancing its goals by promoting civil unrest.
ID# 15239 -- 15239 -- From the Washington Consensus to the Berlin Declaration -- A report on a new effort to craft a consensus on a new economic strategy that will do a better job of wisely and equitably serving all sectors of society.
ID# 15244 -- 15244 -- A Coalition of All Democratic Forces, Part I: A Political Focus on What's Truly Important -- The first of a three-part series exploring strategies for strengthening solidarity within democratic societies, despite the inherent tensions and competitiveness of the electoral process.
ID# 15248 -- 15248 -- Fighting is Easy. Persuading is Harder. -- An important exploration of the difference between persuasive efforts and efforts to simply defend one's point of view.
ID# 15256 -- 15256 -- About Biden’s Pledge to Unify the Nation -- A retrospective look at the mismatch between President Biden's pledge to unify America and his actual policies.
ID# 15264 -- 15264 -- We’re All Soviets Now -- A thought-provoking comparison between the contemporary United States and the Soviet Union just before its collapse.
ID# 15265 -- 15265 -- Small drones will soon lose combat advantage, French Army chief says -- With respect to drones, an important reminder that, in war, military technology advances very rapidly -- often in ways that can quickly alter the balance of power.
ID# 15266 -- 15266 -- Giving Up is Good for You -- A provocative essay exploring an important and much neglected topic -- the importance of recognizing when a goal is out of reach and should be abandoned.
ID# 15274 -- 15274 -- The Lebanon War Is Coming -- An update on the increasing risk of a catastrophic war in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel.
ID# 15278 -- 15278 -- An Expert on Political Violence Sees a Way Out of America’s Crisis -- An interview with Rachel Kleinfeld outlining her concrete suggestions for limiting political violence.
ID# 15279 -- 15279 -- Assortative Mating and Income Inequality -- The report on the stodgy demographic term "assortive mating" -- a phenomenon that contributes greatly to both political tensions and societal inequality.
ID# 15280 -- 15280 -- Criticize Trump, but Don’t Demonize Him -- Practical advice for those looking for ways to oppose Donald Trump's candidacy without further driving the hyperpolarization spiral and partisan animosities.
ID# 15283 -- 15283 -- Who Normalized Political Violence in America? -- As modern societies slide ever closer to the abyss of large-scale political violence, thoughts about who is contributing to the problem and how.
ID# 15284 -- 15284 -- Eitan Hersh on the Perils of Political Hobbyism -- An interview exploring a critically important topic, "political hobbyism," -- something that is very different from responsible citizenship.
ID# 15287 -- 15287 -- Our Solution to the Crisis of Democracy -- A report on another big picture look at the problems facing democracy and the things that ought to be a done to address those problems.
ID# 15291 -- 15291 -- What’s to blame for the CrowdStrike mess? Our drive for efficiency. -- Lessons from the CrowdStrike fiasco for those interested in societal complexity and the vulnerabilities and downsides of our extremely efficient global economy.
ID# 15294 -- 15294 -- The rise of the abundance faction -- An interesting look at what is likely to be a very attractive social and political movement -- one focused on "abundance" instead of austerity.
ID# 15296 -- 15296 -- Biden’s bad rent-control idea has no upside -- An explanation of why rent and price controls are a poor way of solving affordability problems.
ID# 15297 -- 15297 -- Mechanical Intelligence and Counterfeit Humanity -- A thought-provoking chance to look back and reflect upon the rapid evolution of information technologies over the last 50 years and its impact on society.
ID# 15303 -- 15303 -- How Israel Turned the Tide in Rafah -- A reminder that wars are decided on the battlefield, not by outside observers offering their opinions of how things ought to be.
ID# 15304 -- 15304 -- What Trump Means When He Tells Us to ‘Fight’ -- An in-depth look at what Trump means when he calls upon his supporters to "fight" the Democratic establishment.
ID# 15306 -- 15306 -- Climate Fueled Extreme Weather -- The first in a series of posts looking at the ways in which scientific and popular images of the relationship between climate change and extreme weather have diverged.
ID# 15308 -- 15308 -- The Trump Campaign Has Peaked Too Soon -- In the context of the upcoming US election, an essay on the surprisingly widespread and useful applications of Clausewitz' concept of a "culminating point."
ID# 15309 -- 15309 -- Trump-Hitler -- In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a chance to reflect on some of the things that the left has done to demonize the Republican candidate.
ID# 15310 -- 15310 -- The Era of the Noble Lie -- A thought provoking essay on what lies beyond political spin -- outright lies (supposedly for some virtuous purpose) that do a lot of harm.
ID# 15312 -- 15312 -- How the Bet on an 81-Year-Old Joe Biden Turned Into an Epic Miscalculation -- A postmortem analysis of how the Democrats came to commit to the Biden candidacy despite repeated warnings that he was no longer up to the challenge.
ID# 15314 -- 15314 -- How Cycles of Political Violence End -- As the taboos against political violence in the United States continue to erode, a timely analysis of where we are likely to be headed (and how we might reverse that trend).
ID# 15315 -- 15315 -- The Woke Style in American Politics -- An observation that many of the woke, cancel culture political tactics pioneered by the left are now being adopted by the right.
ID# 15316 -- 15316 -- How Is This Going to Work? -- A practical analysis of what Democrats need to do and the problems they face following Biden's withdrawal from the race.
ID# 15317 -- 15317 -- This Is What a Functioning Political Party Looks Like -- At a time in which the power of the United States' political parties has been reduced in favor of grassroots voter power, an argument for restoring some of the power of the party apparatus.
ID# 15318 -- 15318 -- Why centrism might be our salvation -- An argument that the key to defusing the United States' political tensions might lie in something obvious -- developing the middle ground between our polarized extremes.
ID# 15319 -- 15319 -- Today’s Democrats love unity and hate arguing. Here’s why. -- An essay exploring the advantages and disadvantages of the left's and the Democrat's reluctance to challenge one another.
ID# 15321 -- 15321 -- Republican Populists Are Responding to Something Real -- A look at the populism of of the United States' Republican Party and it's relationship with the party's elites -- a conflict within the larger conflict between the left and the right.
ID# 15323 -- 15323 -- Why Are Democrats Speaking to America in Ancient Greek? -- From John McWhorter, an analysis of the language we use to define and defend democracy -- language that makes it harder to communicate critical concepts to the general public.
ID# 15325 -- 15325 -- The Imperial Presidency Unleashed -- From Foreign Affairs, an argument that the recent Supreme Court decision in the Trump immunity case dangerously increases the power of the President.
ID# 15326 -- 15326 -- U.A.E. Puts 84 Civil Society Members on Trial Again, Sentencing 43 to Life -- A disturbing window into the the way in which the United Arab Emirates, one of the more "moderate" Arab regimes, treats dissidents.
ID# 15327 -- 15327 -- What, Me Think? -- A government ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people’ is utterly dependent upon- wait for it…. the PEOPLE. Ashok Pannikar's initial Substack essay on democracy and critical thinking.
ID# 15328 -- 15328 -- Online Community Organizing Is Not an Oxymoron -- Daniel Stid's report on a conversation with Deepti Doshi, co-director of New Public, a nonprofit working to imagine new media and technologies that can build constructive online spaces that serve democratic purposes.
ID# 15329 -- 15329 -- Project 2025: A cross-partisan approach -- The start of a month-long series of articles examining each policy area of Project 2025 with a cross-partisan lens.
ID# 15331 -- 15331 -- Adapt: Hope in the Face of the Polycrisis -- The second of four articles on "the polycrisis" This one looks at characteristics critical to adaptability: trust, civic capacity, accountable leadership, reliable information, functional infrastructure, and education, among others.
ID# 15333 -- 15333 -- Overcoming Ideological Inferences: Breaking Free from Snap Judgments -- A conversation with Carson Sander on how we make snap judgments about people and how to avoid doing that to break down the prevailing political polarization.
ID# 15334 -- 15334 -- The American experiment – a democratic republic – is worth defending -- Seth David Radwell argues that we need a deep appreciation for why our democratic republic, with all its historical chapters of tragic injustice, and present day flaws and warts, is still the best example of self-government in our planet’s recorded history.
ID# 15335 -- 15335 -- Practitioner Mobilization For Democracy - Launch Event Recap -- A summary of (with videos from) NCDD's launch of their Practitioner Mobilization effort, seeking to get mediators and other third parties involved in the effort to encourage constructive democratic engagement.
ID# 15336 -- 15336 -- 5 Ways to Build Bridging Social Capital and Develop a Sense of Common Purpose -- Five ways to counter the sense of loneliness and helplessness that is driving polarization and the weakening of our community and civic ties.
ID# 15337 -- 15337 -- Citizens for Ethics -- Using bold legal actions and in-depth investigations, CREW targets government officials who sacrifice the common good to special interests and personal gain.
ID# 15338 -- 15338 -- 7/29 IMIP Hosted Generate Democracy! "Open House" -- The Inter-Movement Impact Project (IMIP) is an informal, Zoom-focused effort to bring together and exchange information between the many individuals and organizations who are part of the ongoing, "massively parallel" effort to defend and strengthen democracy. On July 29 at 3:00 pm Eastern/noon PDT, IMIP (in conjunction with LinkedIn group Generate Democracy!) is hosting an online Open House for those interested in learning more about the many ways in which people are working to strengthen democracy and how YOU can get involved in this effort. Click the above link for more information. Here's the calendar link for those who would like to attend.
ID# 15339 -- 15339 -- From Waves to Ecosystems: The Next Stage of Democratic Innovation -- This white paper reviews the limitations of elections, the different waves of democratic innovation and efforts to connect them, and key challenges and strategies for building healthy ecosystems of democracy.
ID# 15340 -- 15340 -- Between Thick and Thin: Improving Public Engagement through a Wicked Problem Lens -- One of the key concepts tied to deliberative engagement is the recognition that many of the issues we must engage in our communities can be best understood as wicked problems
ID# 15342 -- 15342 -- How polarization will destroy itself -- Political polarization and extremism are much more fragile than we realize, as long as we maintain freedom of speech, rule of law, market competition, and free and fair elections.
ID# 15343 -- 15343 -- Campus Protests and Police Force: An Ethical Framework -- In a new essay, Archon Fung looks at this current wave of campus protests and asks if civil disobedience is permissible, and how much disruption should be tolerated at universities today.
ID# 15346 -- 15346 -- To understand unreasonable reactions to Trump's shooting, imagine Biden being shot -- A "turnabout test" can help us see emotional biases in our thinking -- our colleague Zach Ellwood got this op-ed in Newsweek.
ID# 15351 -- 15351 -- Why Are Academics Liberal?— BCB #108 -- A discussion of why there aren't more conservative academics, plus bridge-building groups to look out for, and protesting isn't change by itself. As always, thoughtful essays!
ID# 15353 -- 15353 -- Not Just Bigotry, not Just Economics: Why Rural Voters Are Red – BCB #107 -- Rural residents have strong feelings of attachment, pride and loyalty to their homes. When urbanites disparage their beloved communities, they get mad, which then creates a positive feedback cycle of anger and resentment.
ID# 15360 -- 15360 -- The system within: Addressing the inner dimensions of sustainability and systems transformation -- This paper highlights the overlooked inner dimension of system change, and offers systems thinkers the language to advocate for psychological, social and spiritual factors crucial to sustainable solutions.
ID# 15361 -- 15361 -- Understanding Youth Perceptions Towards Authoritarianism -- Are young people part of the democratic problem or part of a potential solution? This report from SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins and International Republican Institute examines that question.
ID# 15362 -- 15362 -- Does deliberative democracy stand a chance in neoliberal times? -- This video is part 4 of a 10-part conversation series on 10 Big Questions on Deliberative Democracy convened by at the University of Canberra.
ID# 15363 -- 15363 -- Solidarity: Building Solidarity In an Era of Silos -- In an age of increasing polarization and division, how can we build bridges? This episode explores the challenges and opportunities of building solidarity in our current social and political climate.
ID# 15365 -- 15365 -- Are You Willing to Walk a Mile in Their Media Shoes? -- Description of an experiment you can do to try to better understand "the other side."
ID# 15367 -- 15367 -- The complexity of American polarization -- This excerpt from Zachary Elwood's book Defusing American Anger, explores the complexity of our polarized society and why that complexity should make us question our certitude about the nature of our divides and our "enemies"
ID# 15368 -- 15368 -- For Students to Change the World, Colleges Must First Teach Them to Bridge Differences -- A commentary from our colleague Shamil Idriss observing that the spring's turmoil on campuses highlights what’s not on the curriculum: Young people need conflict resolution skills to lead us to a better future.
ID# 15369 -- 15369 -- America Must Face Its Civic Crisis -- No matter who wins the U.S. election, the return of civic hope—and with it, the future of our democracy—depends on the return of the citizen: the conceptual and practical restoration of everyday Americans to the center of self-government.
ID# 15370 -- 15370 -- Fostering Civic Renewal and Building Bridges with Braver Angels -- NCDD has consolidated the insights, ideas, and meeting notes from various individuals and groups as they recapped the 2024 Braver Angels Convention
ID# 15371 -- 15371 -- Iran-Israel: The Escalation Calculus -- The dance between Israel and Iran continues -- sometimes escalating, sometimes receding. This article is a bit dated now -- things change so fast in that region -- but it still has useful content.
ID# 15372 -- 15372 -- The Quad, Maritime Security, and Climate Change -- The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue with Australia, Japan, India and the US, is now broadening its focus beyond simply countering China to combatting climate change and other security threats in the Indo-Pacific region.
ID# 15374 -- 15374 -- Could Changing how we Vote Make us Less Polarized? — BCB #105 -- An article on "fusion voting." Under this system, third party-nominated candidates won’t just appear on the ballot under the new party, but also as either a Democrat or a Republican. The hope is this will encourage multi-party dialogue.
ID# 15375 -- 15375 -- The Mediators' Foundation Newsletter -- The Mediators' Foundation highlights useful articles by its members and colleagues that relat to helping us all build a better, more just and more peaceful world.
ID# 15376 -- 15376 -- Are Grievances Running Our Nation and Is Political Forgiveness Our Way Out? -- The June issue of Political Forgiveness Monthly is a deep dive into how we as a country got to this high tide of grievance and how humility can pull us back to a place of listening and mutual trust.
ID# 15377 -- 15377 -- The Thinking Citizen -- Ashok Panikkar asks whether this is an oxymoron or an existential imperative. Given that successful democracies are dependent upon THE PEOPLE, he concludes that deep thought is essential for democracy.
ID# 15378 -- 15378 -- Are You Really Thinking Critically? Let's Find Out! -- Separating Critical Thought from Cynical Noise with David Beckenmeyer and science educator Melanie Trecek-King.
ID# 15379 -- 15379 -- Should Abortion Laws Be the Same Everywhere? – BCB #112 -- How each party is handling abortion underscores a perennial tension between two deeply American principles: universal rights and self-determination.
ID# 15380 -- 15380 -- A Free Education Resource that Helps Students Engage Across Differences in Better Ways -- The guide includes best practices, resources, and recommendations for those working in middle school to college education to promote critical thinking, ideological diversity, empathy, respect, and tolerance of others.
ID# 15381 -- 15381 -- Harnessing our Power to End Political Violence: 2024 Guide -- A guide for communities across the United States to organize to counter political violence. The guide is about taking action "because individuals and communities must organize in order to bring about a better democracy and country."
ID# 15382 -- 15382 -- Horizons' Pillars of Support Projects' "Caselets" -- Exploring tactics and strategies employed by key pillars throughout history and around the world in support of a pro-democracy agenda; notably faith-based organizations, businesses, unions and professional associations, and veterans groups.
ID# 15383 -- 15383 -- Podcast: Leaning into Paradox: How We Can Block, Bridge & Build Our Democratic Future Together -- An audio recording of Horizons’ Julia Roig and Jarvis Williams’ session at the recent Othering & Belonging Institute conference on the "block, bridge, and build" strategy.
ID# 15384 -- 15384 -- The Brain on Authoritarianism -- Better understanding the brain's response to fear, toxic othering, and threats to social identity will help pro-democracy organizers to confront the authoritarian playbook.
ID# 15385 -- 15385 -- Addressing Questions from Skeptics of Political Depolarization and Bridge-building Work -- Zachary Elwood summarizes a talk between Liz Joyner of The Village Square and Melissa Weintraub, the Executive Director of Resetting The Table.
ID# 15387 -- 15387 -- "We should not allow violence to be our answer" -- More in Common surveyed Americans after Trump was shot. They found Americans were concerned about future violence, yet fears may be based on skewed perceptions of their fellow Americans’ support for political violence.
ID# 15389 -- 15389 -- 200 miles from where Trump was shot, ordinary citizens combat political violence -- While Trump's attempted assassination grabbed the headlines, ordinary citizens have been taking concrete steps to reduce the level of political violence (and threats of violence) in their communities.
ID# 15391 -- 15391 -- A case study in why political parties matter -- An explanation of the positive role that political parties can play in moderating the extremes of popular opinion.
ID# 15395 -- 15395 -- Ismail Haniyeh’s Assassination Sends a Message -- Thoughts on the role of political assassination as a military strategy and its applicability to leaders who blithely sacrifice their own people.
ID# 15400 -- 15400 -- The Harris Coalition Is *Not* the Second Coming of the Obama Coalition -- Important reflections on how political demographics have changed since the Obama years.
ID# 15402 -- 15402 -- The Founders Saw This Insane Political Moment Coming 237 Years Ago -- For those who might think that, among the radical changes associated with our high-tech world, there is nothing we can learn from history -- news that the "founding fathers" anticipated our current crisis.
ID# 15403 -- 15403 -- My Fellow Republicans: Stop the Trash Talk -- From a Republican perspective, a reminder that disrespectful, dehumanizing language is bad politics and bad for democracy -- a lesson that Democrats should learn as well.
ID# 15405 -- 15405 -- Progressives Need To Stop Lecturing White Voters About Their Privilege -- An exploration of the political downsides of the progressive focus on "white privilege."
ID# 15406 -- 15406 -- How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president -- A call for taking the steps needed to close the legal loopholes that could allow an unscrupulous president to bypass our system of checks and balances.
ID# 15408 -- 15408 -- Trump’s Most Radical Plan -- Amid all of the uncertainty about what a second Trump presidency would mean for the United States, a report on what might be its most consequential change (the politicalization of the civil service).
ID# 15409 -- 15409 -- Illiberal Liberalism -- Progressives who advocate for illiberal policies aren't Marxists or postmodernists. They turn liberalism's tools against itself.
ID# 15412 -- 15412 -- Social Conservatism Is Alive and Well -- An exploration of the surprising resurgence of more traditional and conservative family values and lifestyles.
ID# 15413 -- 15413 -- How to fix presidential primaries -- Thoughtful ideas for improving our politics by reforming the process through which the major parties select presidential candidates.
ID# 15414 -- 15414 -- Who's "weird"? -- As Democrats decide to brand their Republican opponents as "weird," a thoughtful, in-depth analysis of the complex issues that this raises.
ID# 15415 -- 15415 -- What Is America’s Gender War Actually About? -- It is clear that gender has become a principal fault line in US politics. This insightful essay explores the nature of that fault line.
ID# 15421 -- 15421 -- Can Blue States Build? -- Reflections on the far-reaching implications of the startling fact -- it is Texas, not California, that is the national leader in clean-energy generation.
ID# 15423 -- 15423 -- On the Brink of War, Hezbollah Is Emboldened in a Crippled Lebanon -- As we stand on the brink of a war between Israel and Hezbollah (a war that will be fought in both Lebanon and Israel), an insightful primer on what we ought to know.
ID# 15425 -- 15425 -- 'We need to flip the equation: Land for peace? Yes, but they should pay us with land for the peace we grant them' -- A thought-provoking (and doubtless controversial) interview with one of Israel's most prominent experts on Islam with thoughts about the current crisis which are worth considering.
ID# 15426 -- 15426 -- The Secret Power of Using ‘We’ During Difficult Conversations -- This simple change in language and, more importantly, the way we think about conflict can have huge and quite beneficial implications.
ID# 15428 -- 15428 -- In Praise of First-Past-the-Post -- A compare and contrast article exploring the implications of the two principal ways in which democracies select members of legislative bodies.
ID# 15434 -- 15434 -- Poor Black Kids Are Doing Better. Poor White Kids Are Doing Worse. -- The report on surprising racial disparities in our ability to alleviate intergenerational poverty.
ID# 15440 -- 15440 -- The Strange Resurrection of the Two-State Solution -- From Foreign Affairs, updated reflections on the "two-state solution" and the reasons why it is the only path toward "resolving" the conflict. The question is, is "resolution" possible?
ID# 15441 -- 15441 -- America’s Political Chaos Is Enviable When You Live in an Autocracy -- Before complaining too much about living in the land of political turmoil and omnipresent politics, consider living in country where that none of that is legal or possible.
ID# 15445 -- 15445 -- Twitter, Elon and the Indigo Blob -- From Nate Silver, reflections on the evolving media environment in which debates regarding the upcoming US election would be played out.
ID# 15450 -- 15450 -- Inside the Secret Negotiations to Free Evan Gershkovich -- The report on the complex negotiations surrounding the recent prisoner exchange (and disturbing news about how authoritarian regimes are profiting from a hostage-taking strategy).
ID# 15451 -- 15451 -- What Gives Poor Kids a Shot at Better Lives? Economists Find an Unexpected Answer -- A summary of a new analysis of the factors that determine intergenerational social mobility (the ability of poor kids to move up the economic ladder).
ID# 15453 -- 15453 -- Learn This Term: ‘Whole of Society’ -- The report on a new theory of change for political parties and social movements seeking to transform society (and a source of concern for those who oppose them).
ID# 15454 -- 15454 -- Merit, Excellence and Intelligence: An Anti-DEI Approach Catches On -- The report on a new and doubtless controversial alternative to diversity equity and inclusion programs worth considering and debating.
ID# 15457 -- 15457 -- Who Can Achieve the American Dream? Race Matters Less Than It Used To. -- The report on a new study that further illuminates the complex economic relationship between race and class.
ID# 15468 -- 15468 -- The Sabaya: How the advocates of Palestine erased the experience of the Yazidis in order to deny the rape of Jewish women -- An article comparing the world's reaction to the sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 and by ISIS against the Yazidis.
ID# 15480 -- 15480 -- Warlike "one side will win" framings of our divides -- An exploration of what follows from the assumption that today's big political conflict will ultimately be resolved with a decisive victory for one side and corresponding defeat for the other.
ID# 15496 -- 15496 -- Can't we get back to solving problems? -- Thoughts on how to transform dysfunctional democratic institutions in ways that would enable us to genuinely solve problems.
ID# 15498 -- 15498 -- America Has Too Many Laws -- From Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch, a summary of his new book and a compelling argument that the United States is an over-regulated society -- something that those on the left should consider seriously.
ID# 15503 -- 15503 -- Why do people believe true things? Ignorance and misperceptions are not puzzling. The challenge is to explain why some people see reality accurately. -- A look at the complex psychology underlying the ability to distinguish truth from often more comforting falsehoods.
ID# 15508 -- 15508 -- JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman -- Another step down the slippery slope of dehumanization, runaway escalation, and catastrophe.
ID# 15509 -- 15509 -- A Dystopian Effort Is Underway in the Pacific Northwest to Pick Ecological Winners and Losers -- The complexities of the biological world are, in many ways, similar to the complexity of human society. This essay explores the limits of trying to engineer such systems.
ID# 15516 -- 15516 -- Why You Should Feel Good About Liberalism: We need to get better at standing up for the greatest social technology ever devised. -- An argument that liberal democracy is one of humanity's greatest accomplishments – an accomplishment that we ought to do a much better job of defending.
ID# 15517 -- 15517 -- Once things get out of hand, there is no handling things -- With respect to the ongoing crisis in Great Britain, an essay exploring the uncontrollable nature of runaway escalation and hyperpolarized conflict.
ID# 15519 -- 15519 -- How Trump and Black Lives Matter Combined to Change American Politics -- The review of the latest political science insights into the forces that produced the United States' contemporary political crisis.
ID# 15520 -- 15520 -- Israel on the Brink: If the Israelis find themselves facing difficult choices, so do their enemies. -- An in-depth look at the complex and difficult choices facing the major players in the ongoing Gaza conflict.
ID# 15527 -- 15527 -- The declining significance of race, quantified -- Evidence that we are, in fact, making significant progress toward addressing racial inequities.
ID# 15528 -- 15528 -- Yes, You Do Have to Tolerate the Intolerant: It has become fashionable to invoke Karl Popper’s “paradox of tolerance” to justify restrictions on free speech. That’s just plain wrong. -- Tolerance and coexistence are key to making a diverse democracy work. This essay explores one of the big challenges facing promoters of tolerance -- the need to tolerate the intolerant.
ID# 15532 -- 15532 -- Chuck Schumer’s plan to create a constitutional crisis -- An overview of worrying Democratic plans to dramatically transform the role of the Supreme Court (and the role of the judiciary, more generally) in US society.
ID# 15546 -- 15546 -- The Cancellation Playbook: It is time to rewrite the playbook. It will take a collective effort to restore balance within arts institutions and remove the chilling effect of cancellation—if we work together, it's achievable. -- An overview of the strategy that those targeted for political cancellation can use to to defend their freedoms and help provide society with access to a robust debate on controversial issues.
ID# 15547 -- 15547 -- Putin’s New Agents of Chaos: How Russia’s Growing Squad of Saboteurs and Assassins Threatens the West -- More information about the murky boundary between democracies internal dysfunction and efforts by outside powers to promote that dysfunction.
ID# 15548 -- 15548 -- How to Prevent a Spiral of Political Violence in America -- From Foreign Affairs, a report on new research on strategies for limiting the threat posed by political violence in the US.
ID# 15549 -- 15549 -- What's Really Wrong with the "Deep State" Part: I: Purging career civil servants will not make government more democratic. -- The first part of a longer, in-depth exploration of the the ways in which the governmental bureaucracy is contributing to democracy's problems (as well as thoughts about possible remedies).
ID# 15551 -- 15551 -- Quieting the Noise of this Political Season -- Lamar Roth and Tom Klaus talk about quieting the noise around the current presidential election in the United States. They offer three tips for your consideration.
ID# 15552 -- 15552 -- AllSides Bias Checker™ -- The AllSides Bias Checker provides instant bias ratings and analysis for any news article, based on AllSides' patented bias rating system.
ID# 15553 -- 15553 -- Outrage Overload: A Fresh Perspective -- A conservative take on outrage and polarization with Michel Anderson
ID# 15554 -- 15554 -- Future Trends - 6 August 2024 -- From the Alliance for Peacebuilding & Institute of Economics and Peace, a summary of the week's major developments in global news, and where IEP and AfP think these developments are going.
ID# 15555 -- 15555 -- Love in Action: Embodying Love in our Organizing and Organizations -- The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.
ID# 15556 -- 15556 -- Stemming the Tide of Political Violence -- For anyone who’s feeling discouraged or dealing with difficult times, the answer isn’t to become despondent, but to recognize that we’re all Americans, and to incorporate a kinder, gentler mindset toward one another.
ID# 15557 -- 15557 -- What Do We Mean by “Extremists” and “Moderates”? -- Those terms relate more to conflict strategies than they do to conflict interests and positions.
ID# 15558 -- 15558 -- The Tennessee 11 -- This intimate, fly-on-the-wall document puts you in the room where eleven local leaders from across the political spectrum gathered to discuss gun rights and safety — and to achieve the impossible: find common ground
ID# 15559 -- 15559 -- Reasons To Be Optimistic About Polarization — BCB #113 -- Things could be worse, they have been worse, and they will get better.
ID# 15560 -- 15560 -- Biden said he wanted to bring Americans together — why didn't he? -- An op-ed on Biden's polarizing approaches, and what we can learn from that
ID# 15561 -- 15561 -- A Conversation about Partnering with Community Mediation Centers -- DG Mawn, President of NAFCM and Caleb Christen, Co-Founder of Inter-Movement Impact Project have a thought-provoking conversation about incorporating community mediation centers into local democracy hubs.
ID# 15589 -- 15589 -- How Not to Hand Populists a Weapon -- An argument for diffusing the right wing, populist threat to democracy by seriously addressing the legitimate concerns they raise about immigration.
ID# 15590 -- 15590 -- The truth about Trump's press conference -- In the wake of the Democrats' long refusal to consider the fact that age was undermining the President's capabilities, news that Republicans may be making a similar mistake.
ID# 15591 -- 15591 -- What’s Behind the Violent U.K. Riots -- A first-rate article on the ongoing violence in Great Britain that we found to be especially illuminating (and worrying).
ID# 15594 -- 15594 -- Harris is winning the all-important battle — of vibes -- A look at the subjective, emotional side of the battle for the US Presidency.
ID# 15598 -- 15598 -- Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting -- Thoughts on the complex psychological processes that people use to make decisions about what political candidates to support and what factors to consider (and not consider).
ID# 15599 -- 15599 -- Kamala Harris can't meme her way to victory. Or can she? -- A reflection on the upcoming US election that contemplates the complexities of human thought, today's high-tech information systems, and the minor role being played by rational policy debate.
ID# 15602 -- 15602 -- Freddie deBoer on “Peak Woke” -- A thought-provoking discussion about the rise and fall of political ideologies and the future of the "woke" left's political agenda.
ID# 15603 -- 15603 -- The Machiavellian cause of Britain’s disorder -- The ongoing civil unrest in Great Britain is a warning about where hyper-polarized politics in the US (and other countries) could take us. We ought to pay attention.
ID# 15607 -- 15607 -- The Red Scare Was No Moral Panic -- In the context of hybrid warfare, bad-faith actors, and ongoing geopolitical intrigue -- a look back at the "red scare" of the 1950s.
ID# 15613 -- 15613 -- Certification and Non-Discretion: a Guide to Protecting the 2024 Election -- A legal analysis of steps that can and should be taken to limit at least one source of vulnerability regarding the integrity of the upcoming US election.
ID# 15614 -- 15614 -- Sensing Towards Personal & Cultural Transformation -- Food for thought, for those thinking about how to think about the complex and turbulent time in which we live.
ID# 15615 -- 15615 -- Peter Coleman: The Great Reset -- Peter Coleman suggests 8 steps that Columbia could follow to better understand what caused the chaos of last year, and how such conflicts can be conducted more constructively in the future.
ID# 15615 -- 15615 -- Peter Coleman: The Great Reset -- Peter Coleman suggests 8 steps that Columbia could follow to better understand what caused the chaos of last year, and how such conflicts can be conducted more constructively in the future.
ID# 15615 -- 15615 -- Peter Coleman: The Great Reset -- Peter Coleman suggests 8 steps that Columbia could follow to better understand what caused the chaos of last year, and how such conflicts can be conducted more constructively in the future.
ID# 15616 -- 15616 -- Talking with Friends and Family about the Election -- How should we deal with summer family visits when some of our relatives are "on the other side?" Like so many other things, "it depends."
ID# 15616 -- 15616 -- Talking with Friends and Family about the Election -- How should we deal with summer family visits when some of our relatives are "on the other side?" Like so many other things, "it depends."
ID# 15618 -- 15618 -- Democratic Subversion - Part 1 -- Part 1 of 2 newsletters looking at an old, but eerily accurate, way of looking at the chain of political events that have done so much to undermine democratic societies in recent decades.
ID# 15618 -- 15618 -- Democratic Subversion - Part 1 -- Part 1 of 2 newsletters looking at an old, but eerily accurate, way of looking at the chain of political events that have done so much to undermine democratic societies in recent decades.
ID# 15618 -- 15618 -- Democratic Subversion - Part 1 -- Part 1 of 2 newsletters looking at an old, but eerily accurate, way of looking at the chain of political events that have done so much to undermine democratic societies in recent decades.
ID# 15618 -- 15618 -- Democratic Subversion - Part 1 -- Part 1 of 2 newsletters looking at an old, but eerily accurate, way of looking at the chain of political events that have done so much to undermine democratic societies in recent decades.
ID# 15619 -- 15619 -- Democratic Subversion - Part 2 -- Part 2 of 2 newsletters looking at an old, but eerily accurate, way of looking at the chain of political events that have done so much to undermine democratic societies in recent decades.
ID# 15619 -- 15619 -- -- Part 2 of 2 newsletters looking at an old, but eerily accurate, way of looking at the chain of political events that have done so much to undermine democratic societies in recent decades.
ID# 15619 -- 15619 -- Democratic Subversion - Part 2 -- Part 2 of 2 newsletters looking at an old, but eerily accurate, way of looking at the chain of political events that have done so much to undermine democratic societies in recent decades.
ID# 15619 -- 15619 -- Democratic Subversion - Part 2 -- Part 2 of 2 newsletters looking at an old, but eerily accurate, way of looking at the chain of political events that have done so much to undermine democratic societies in recent decades.
ID# 15621 -- 15621 -- Democracy Lighthouse, Practitioner Mobilization, and More on Communicating with Friends and Family -- Sharing several new ideas that have come to us recently on controlling affective polarization and threats to democracy from the family level on up.
ID# 15622 -- 15622 -- More responses to Friends and Family + Democracy Subversion from Rosa Zubizarreta -- Rosa Zubizarreta's thoughts about better ways to talk across differences without destroying relationships, and the relationship between our hyper-polarized politics and the increasing risk of large-scale war.
ID# 15623 -- 15623 -- Reflections on the 4th of July (U.S. Independence Day) -- Can the Constitution brings us back together, as it was designed to do, or will it push us further apart? Should we, in the United States, be proud or ashamed this Independence Day -- and how can we balance pride with serious efforts to address our many shortcomings?
ID# 15625 -- 15625 -- Mark Gerzon and Mesa Sebree -- Towards a Polycrisis Consciousness - Part 1 -- Gerzon and Sebree explain what the "polycrisis" is, and ten of the individual crises that interact to create it. In part 2, they will explain what can be done to constructively address this unprecedented challenge to human well being, even survival.
ID# 15625 -- 15625 -- Mark Gerzon and Mesa Sebree -- Towards a Polycrisis Consciousness - Part 1 -- Gerzon and Sebree explain what the "polycrisis" is, and ten of the individual crises that interact to create it. In part 2, they will explain what can be done to constructively address this unprecedented challenge to human well being, even survival.
ID# 15625 -- 15625 -- Mark Gerzon and Mesa Sebree -- Towards a Polycrisis Consciousness - Part 1 -- Gerzon and Sebree explain what the "polycrisis" is, and ten of the individual crises that interact to create it. In part 2, they will explain what can be done to constructively address this unprecedented challenge to human well being, even survival.
ID# 15626 -- 15626 -- Mark Gerzon and Mesa Sebree -- Towards a Polycrisis Consciousness - Part 2 -- To address the polycrisis, it is necessary to "focus on part of the polycrisis but with an awareness of the whole." Among Gerzon and Sebree's several insightful suggestions: forget optimism and pessimism, focusing instead on "possibility."
ID# 15626 -- 15626 -- Mark Gerzon and Mesa Sebree -- Towards a Polycrisis Consciousness - Part 2 -- To address the polycrisis, it is necessary to "focus on part of the polycrisis but with an awareness of the whole." Among Gerzon and Sebree's several insightful suggestions: forget optimism and pessimism, focusing instead on "possibility."
ID# 15628 -- 15628 -- Daniel Stid: A Big Question I Have Is... -- Hope, vision, and place-based civic heath are key elements to our ability to navigate the turbulent times that have left so many of us in fear and despair.
ID# 15628 -- 15628 -- Daniel Stid: A Big Question I Have Is... -- Hope, vision, and place-based civic heath are key elements to our ability to navigate the turbulent times that have left so many of us in fear and despair.
ID# 15628 -- 15628 -- Daniel Stid: A Big Question I Have Is... -- Hope, vision, and place-based civic heath are key elements to our ability to navigate the turbulent times that have left so many of us in fear and despair.
ID# 15629 -- 15629 -- Thinking about What Democracy's Winners and Losers Owe One Another -- As we think about how to heal US democracy following the upcoming, and undoubtedly divisive election, we propose asking ourselves whether we are willing to treat the other side as we would like to be treated.
ID# 15629 -- 15629 -- Thinking about What Democracy's Winners and Losers Owe One Another -- As we think about how to heal US democracy following the upcoming, and undoubtedly divisive election, we propose asking ourselves whether we are willing to treat the other side as we would like to be treated.
ID# 15631 -- 15631 -- Martin Carcasson Talks with Heidi and Guy Burgess about Wicked Problems, Polarization, Deliberation, and Democracy -- In an hour-long interview, Martin talks about the "wicked problem mindset" as a way to diminish polarization, and encourage collaboration, creativity, and healthy democracy, at least at the local level.
ID# 15631 -- 15631 -- Martin Carcasson Talks with Heidi and Guy Burgess about Wicked Problems, Polarization, Deliberation, and Democracy -- In an hour-long interview, Martin talks about the "wicked problem mindset" as a way to diminish polarization, and encourage collaboration, creativity, and healthy democracy, at least at the local level.
ID# 15631 -- 15631 -- Martin Carcasson Talks with Heidi and Guy Burgess about Wicked Problems, Polarization, Deliberation, and Democracy -- In an hour-long interview, Martin talks about the "wicked problem mindset" as a way to diminish polarization, and encourage collaboration, creativity, and healthy democracy, at least at the local level.
ID# 15631 -- 15631 -- Martin Carcasson Talks with Heidi and Guy Burgess about Wicked Problems, Polarization, Deliberation, and Democracy -- In an hour-long interview, Martin talks about the "wicked problem mindset" as a way to diminish polarization, and encourage collaboration, creativity, and healthy democracy, at least at the local level.
ID# 15631 -- 15631 -- Martin Carcasson Talks with Heidi and Guy Burgess about Wicked Problems, Polarization, Deliberation, and Democracy -- In an hour-long interview, Martin talks about the "wicked problem mindset" as a way to diminish polarization, and encourage collaboration, creativity, and healthy democracy, at least at the local level.
ID# 15632 -- 15632 -- Nealin Parker Talks about Search USA's Efforts to Reduce Polarization and Tension in the United States -- Heidi Burgess and Nealin Parker talk about how Search for Common Ground is adapting its pathbreaking international peacebuilding work to healing divides in the United States.
ID# 15632 -- 15632 -- Nealin Parker Talks about Search USA's Efforts to Reduce Polarization and Tension in the United States -- Heidi Burgess and Nealin Parker talk about how Search for Common Ground is adapting its pathbreaking international peacebuilding work to healing divides in the United States.
ID# 15634 -- 15634 -- Massively Parallel Partisanship Revisited -- Massively parallel social movements can strengthen democracy or tear it apart, and the dividers are currently much more visible (and successful) than the uniters. With effort, though, that can change!
ID# 15634 -- 15634 -- Massively Parallel Partisanship Revisited -- Massively parallel social movements can strengthen democracy or tear it apart, and the dividers are currently much more visible (and successful) than the uniters. With effort, though, that can change!
ID# 15635 -- 15635 -- Walt Roberts and Caleb Christian Talk about the Inter-Movement Impact Project -- Caleb Christen and Walt Roberts talk about the Inter-Movement Impact Project -- another example of massively parallel problem solving and democracy building "in the real world."
ID# 15635 -- 15635 -- Walt Roberts and Caleb Christian Talk about the Inter-Movement Impact Project -- Caleb Christen and Walt Roberts talk about the Inter-Movement Impact Project -- another example of massively parallel problem solving and democracy building "in the real world."
ID# 15635 -- 15635 -- Walt Roberts and Caleb Christian Talk about the Inter-Movement Impact Project -- Caleb Christen and Walt Roberts talk about the Inter-Movement Impact Project -- another example of massively parallel problem solving and democracy building "in the real world."
ID# 15637 -- 15637 -- Susan Carpenter and Heidi Burgess Reflect on Susan's 40+ Years' Experience Doing Consensus Building -- Susan Carpenter has been working in the field of collaborative problem solving for over 40 years. She talked about the changes she's seen over those years, and the time-tested approaches she has come to rely on for success.
ID# 15637 -- 15637 -- Susan Carpenter and Heidi Burgess Reflect on Susan's 40+ Years' Experience Doing Consensus Building -- Susan Carpenter has been working in the field of collaborative problem solving for over 40 years. She talked about the changes she's seen over those years, and the time-tested approaches she has come to rely on for success.
ID# 15637 -- 15637 -- Susan Carpenter and Heidi Burgess Reflect on Susan's 40+ Years' Experience Doing Consensus Building -- Susan Carpenter has been working in the field of collaborative problem solving for over 40 years. She talked about the changes she's seen over those years, and the time-tested approaches she has come to rely on for success.
ID# 15638 -- 15638 -- A Potpourri Newsletter -- Short pieces about new books, and new ideas about the challenges we currently face and ways to meet them from John Paul Lederach, Lou Kriesberg, Kenneth Boulding, Deborah Laufer, and Guy and Heidi Burgess.
ID# 15640 -- 15640 -- Updating Our Impartiality Discussions - Part 1 -- An update on our 2-year old discussion of impartiality, adding to it Martin Carcasson's notion of "principled impartiality" (and its relationship with information quality and "small-d" democracy).
ID# 15640 -- 15640 -- Updating Our Impartiality Discussions - Part 1 -- An update on our 2-year old discussion of impartiality, adding to it Martin Carcasson's notion of "principled impartiality" (and its relationship with information quality and "small-d" democracy).
ID# 15640 -- 15640 -- Updating Our Impartiality Discussions - Part 1 -- An update on our 2-year old discussion of impartiality, adding to it Martin Carcasson's notion of "principled impartiality" (and its relationship with information quality and "small-d" democracy).
ID# 15641 -- 15641 -- Updating Our Impartiality Discussions - Part 2 -- In part 2 of this 2-part series, we apply Martin Carcasson's notion of "principled impartiality" to the Israel/Gaza/Hezbollah/Iran war, and to the political conflict in the United States.
ID# 15641 -- 15641 -- Updating Our Impartiality Discussions - Part 2 -- In part 2 of this 2-part series, we apply Martin Carcasson's notion of "principled impartiality" to the Israel/Gaza/Hezbollah/Iran war, and to the political conflict in the United States.
ID# 15641 -- 15641 -- Updating Our Impartiality Discussions - Part 2 -- In part 2 of this 2-part series, we apply Martin Carcasson's notion of "principled impartiality" to the Israel/Gaza/Hezbollah/Iran war, and to the political conflict in the United States.
ID# 15643 -- 15643 -- Guy and Heidi Burgess Talk with David Eisner about Threats to Democracy and How to Address Those -- The Burgesses talked with David Eisner about what he thinks the threats to democracy are, and how (and when) we might respond to them. We agreed, citizen involvement in governance is key.
ID# 15643 -- 15643 -- Guy and Heidi Burgess Talk with David Eisner about Threats to Democracy and How to Address Those -- The Burgesses talked with David Eisner about what he thinks the threats to democracy are, and how (and when) we might respond to them. We agreed, citizen involvement in governance is key.
ID# 15643 -- 15643 -- Guy and Heidi Burgess Talk with David Eisner about Threats to Democracy and How to Address Those -- The Burgesses talked with David Eisner about what he thinks the threats to democracy are, and how (and when) we might respond to them. We agreed, citizen involvement in governance is key.
ID# 15644 -- 15644 -- Reprise: Constructive Confrontation: Applying Conflict Insights from a 1st Party (Not 3rd Party) Perspective -- A reprise of an old newsletter on constructive ways of engaging in conflict that is less likely to create backlash and more likely to achieve one's goals than typical adversarial approaches are likely to do.
ID# 15644 -- 15644 -- Reprise: Constructive Confrontation: Applying Conflict Insights from a 1st Party (Not 3rd Party) Perspective -- A reprise of an old newsletter on constructive ways of engaging in conflict that is less likely to create backlash and more likely to achieve one's goals than typical adversarial approaches are likely to do.
ID# 15646 -- 15646 -- Reprise: Planning a Constructive Confrontation Strategy: Understanding the Relationship between Negotiation and Power -- Power takes three forms that can be mixed and matched: coercion, exchange, and integration. The "recipe" for the optimal "power strategy mix" changes depending on whom you are trying to influence.
ID# 15646 -- 15646 -- Reprise: Planning a Constructive Confrontation Strategy: Understanding the Relationship between Negotiation and Power -- Power takes three forms that can be mixed and matched: coercion, exchange, and integration. The "recipe" for the optimal "power strategy mix" changes depending on whom you are trying to influence.
ID# 15646 -- 15646 -- Reprise: Planning a Constructive Confrontation Strategy: Understanding the Relationship between Negotiation and Power -- Power takes three forms that can be mixed and matched: coercion, exchange, and integration. The "recipe" for the optimal "power strategy mix" changes depending on whom you are trying to influence.
ID# 15646 -- 15646 -- Reprise: Planning a Constructive Confrontation Strategy: Understanding the Relationship between Negotiation and Power -- Constructive confrontation calls for resolving most disputes through interest-based negotiation; only if that fails should one try a contest of rights, reserving nonviolent power contests as a very last resort.
ID# 15648 -- 15648 -- Reprise: The Power Strategy Mix — Empowering the Pursuit of the Common Good -- Power takes three forms that can be mixed and matched: coercion, exchange, and integration. The "recipe" for the optimal "power strategy mix" changes depending on whom you are trying to influence.
ID# 15648 -- 15648 -- Reprise: The Power Strategy Mix — Empowering the Pursuit of the Common Good -- Power takes three forms that can be mixed and matched: coercion, exchange, and integration. The "recipe" for the optimal "power strategy mix" changes depending on whom you are trying to influence.
ID# 15649 -- 15649 -- Revisiting BI's Constructive Conflict Initiative - Part 1 -- Looking back on the 5-year old Constructive Conflict Initiative, a lot has happened to bring it to fruition. But a lot of challenges remain.
ID# 15649 -- 15649 -- Revisiting BI's Constructive Conflict Initiative - Part 1 -- Looking back on the 5-year old Constructive Conflict Initiative, a lot has happened to bring it to fruition. But a lot of challenges remain.
ID# 15651 -- 15651 -- Michael Oren: Should Israel Strike First? -- The report on the agonizing strategic choice facing Israel and questions about the degree to which the lessons of 1967 and 1973 apply.
ID# 15653 -- 15653 -- The Misery of Leading Columbia University -- A look at what it takes to lead a major university today with important lessons about why effective and broadly supported leaders are now such a rarity.
ID# 15668 -- 15668 -- Harris Gonna Code Switch -- The linguistic analysis of how cultural diversity is reflected in our patterns of speech and what this says about how best to communicate with different groups.
ID# 15670 -- 15670 -- Why the disinformation brigade has utterly failed to weaken Trump -- An essay that asks why efforts to challenge Trump's highly successful efforts to build a political movement based on lies has, thus far, ended in failure.
ID# 15675 -- 15675 -- Media gatekeepers are losing control over the conversation, and robust censorship is their only chance to regain power -- A critical and doubtless controversial look at big media, it's diminishing influence on our collective consciousness, and its efforts to reassert itself through various censorship strategies.
ID# 15679 -- 15679 -- The great wealth wave -- A hopeful argument that, while everyone was worrying about inequality and lack of economic opportunity, the Western world was actually moving in the opposite direction.
ID# 15681 -- 15681 -- What Populism Is—And Isn't: Everything you need to know about the buzziest and most dangerous political force of our time. -- A primer on what everyone needs to know about the buzziest and most dangerous political force of our time.
ID# 15682 -- 15682 -- Masculinity Is on the Ballot -- During a time when culture war politics seems to primarily focus on abortion, LBGTQIA+ issues, and feminism, news that questions about masculinity will be a big topic this year.
ID# 15685 -- 15685 -- To Rebuild Trust, Universities Need To Build Open-Minded Brands -- Concrete steps that universities could take to earn back the public's trust (and do a better job of serving the larger society).
ID# 15696 -- 15696 -- Equality Is Good, Actually -- Contrary to popular critiques, the liberal value of equality doesn’t make you weak or nihilistic.
ID# 15698 -- 15698 -- the thin line -- An exploration of the thin line that distinguishes efforts to support victimized groups from efforts to profit from their victimization.
ID# 15701 -- 15701 -- Liberal Soulcraft: Liberalism is in trouble. It will take a concerted act of will to save it. -- An excerpt from Alexandre Lefebvre’s new book “Liberalism as a Way of Life” -- another effort to help us understand liberalism and why we need to defend it.
ID# 15703 -- 15703 -- What if Congress had more than two parties? Proportional representation could create a more functional Congress. A new report outlines how and why it just might work. -- A provocative idea for reforming the U.S. Congress in ways that supporters believe would help defuse hyper-polarization by making Congress more like a parliament.
ID# 15706 -- 15706 -- How the Gay-Rights Movement Lost Its Way -- The sad profile, with lessons for all advocacy groups, describing how a movement can be corrupted once its principal goals are attained.
ID# 15708 -- 15708 -- In Syria’s Hinterlands, the U.S. Wages a Hidden Campaign Against a Resurgent Islamic State -- News about a war that most of us, in the US, didn't know we were fighting -- one that has US soldiers, on the ground in Syria, fighting ISIS.
ID# 15712 -- 15712 -- Liberalism Offers a Language of Resistance Against Authoritarianism Everywhere. The West may have become complacent about defending liberalism but non-Western countries are naturally turning to it -- Thoughts on the complex relationship between liberalism and authoritarianism and why fighting authoritarianism requires a stronger defense of liberalism.
ID# 15713 -- 15713 -- The riots in the United Kingdom. -- Isaac Saul on Tangle reports on the left's and the right's "take" on the UK riots and then shares his own view that the UK situation is dangerous, not only for them, but also for us in the U.S.
ID# 15714 -- 15714 -- Unpacking Massively Parallel Peacebuilding with Guy Burgess -- A discussion Guy Burgess had with David Beckenmeyer with Outrage Overload about the threats to democracy and how massively parallel efforts can help address those threats. Though this was recorded 6 months ago, it was just released.
ID# 15715 -- 15715 -- How to make sure your disruptive protest helps your cause. -- From Waging Nonviolence, an article highlighting five key factors which determine whether controversial protests are more likely to spark backlash or create positive outcomes.
ID# 15716 -- 15716 -- We all want a nonviolent world. -- From Waging Nonviolence, an announcement about Campaign Nonviolence Action Days from Sept. 21-Oct. 2 to mobilize for a culture of active nonviolence, free from war, poverty, racism and environmental destruction.
ID# 15717 -- 15717 -- J.D. Vance Endorses Book with Dehumanizing “Unhumans” Language -- From Starts with Us, thoughts for Trump supporters and Harris supporters on the danger of dehumanizing language and what to do when it is uttered.
ID# 15721 -- 15721 -- The Governor Who Endorsed Trump to Heal American Politics -- A profile of Utah Gov. Cox, the founder of the Disagree Better campaign, explaining why he thought that supporting Donald Trump was the best way to continue his efforts to depolarize US politics.
ID# 15724 -- 15724 -- Joe Manchin Has Some Unsolicited Advice for Kamala Harris and the Democrats -- During this time of massively parallel partisanship, thoughts from one of the few politicians still inhabiting the middle ground between the two partisan extremes.
ID# 15725 -- 15725 -- The Senator Warning Democrats of a Crisis Unfolding Beneath Their Noses -- An in-depth profile highlighting the thinking of one Democrat who believes that his party has failed to grasp the reasons why so many people distrust Democrats.
ID# 15726 -- 15726 -- Algorithms Are Making Kids Desperately Unhappy -- An analysis of the truly dystopian reality -- a society in which our relationships (and especially the relationships of young people) are driven by computer algorithms, not interpersonal interactions.
ID# 15727 -- 15727 -- The kids are not okay -- From Brookings, more analysis of the problems facing young people today.
ID# 15730 -- 15730 -- A Framework for Democracy Philanthropy -- A framework developed by Daniel Stid to help would-be philanthropists decide where, when, and how to invest money to make the biggest difference in strengthening democracy.
ID# 15731 -- 15731 -- America’s Families Are Not Okay: Inside the crisis of parent-child estrangement. -- A look at a seldom considered conflict that has enormous implications for human well-being -- the conflict between parents and children.
ID# 15732 -- 15732 -- Israel is fighting the hardest war in modern history — and winning. -- From an Israeli (and a more general military perspective) reflections on the military challenges posed by the Gaza war and Israel's strategy for meeting those challenges.
ID# 15733 -- 15733 -- Humanitarians Should Want Hamas’s Human-Sacrifice Strategy to Fail -- A more in-depth exploration of the enormously difficult moral issues raised when aggressive authoritarian regimes employ civilian sacrifice tactics.
ID# 15734 -- 15734 -- Tactical Civilian Sacrifice -- A short video that, I think, offers a much clearer image of Hamas' strategy -- a strategy that anybody who cares about the people of Gaza should condemn.
ID# 15735 -- 15735 -- American Political Satire Sucks Because It Force Feeds You Answers Instead of Asking You Questions -- A critical essay that asks whether political satire in the United States is playing a positive or a negative role.
ID# 15738 -- 15738 -- Israel's deterrence is working against Iran's threats - opinion -- As Israel and the world waits for the expected Iranian attack, a hopeful argument that Israel is reestablishing the system of deterrence that, for years, successfully prevented a wider war.
ID# 15739 -- 15739 -- We Need Moral Direction -- A thought-provoking essay that argues that we’ve forgotten the word morals and replaced it with boundaries.
ID# 15741 -- 15741 -- Here Comes Kamala’s Mortgage Forgiveness -- A review of a surprisingly large number of sometimes legally questionable governmental programs designed to promote housing affordability. The big question is, are they really affordable?
ID# 15742 -- 15742 -- Yes, It's Easy to Defend Social Justice Politics if You Pretend Social Justice Politics Are Just Liberalism -- A thoughtful exploration of the complex relationships between progressive, social justice politics and traditional liberalism.
ID# 15743 -- 15743 -- What I Want a University President to Say About Campus Protests -- Thoughtful advice for university presidents looking for ways to better handle Gaza-type protests, while also remaining true to the core (and often neglected) mission of the university.
ID# 15745 -- 15745 -- I was a captive of Hamas. After I was freed, I was imprisoned by online trolls. -- A personal account of both the horror of being one of Hamas' hostages, and the horror that follows when one becomes a focal point in the globa propaganda war over the war on Gaza.
ID# 15746 -- 15746 -- AI researchers call for ‘personhood credentials’ as bots get smarter -- One idea for limiting the many threats posed by an online world in which AI-generated, artificial people become indistinguishable from the real thing.
ID# 15753 -- 15753 -- Deep Reading Will Save Your Soul -- A critique of higher education and a strategy for learning the things that you should have learned in college.
ID# 15755 -- 15755 -- The Democrats embraced patriotism after all -- An explanation of the ways in which Democrats used, during their recent Convention, patriotic imagery to alter popular perceptions that they have been overly critical of the United States.
ID# 15758 -- 15758 -- How Settler-Colonialism Colonized the Universities - The Atlantic -- A retrospective look at the origins of the theory of "settler colonialism" -- a theory that has done much to frame the Gaza crisis in the eyes of the world.
ID# 15759 -- 15759 -- The Democratic Party’s Project 2025 -- An attempt to understand and articulate what it is that Democrats genuinely stand for -- a government that systematically identifies problems and then works to solve those problems.
ID# 15762 -- 15762 -- The Bitter Fight Over the Meaning of ‘Genocide’ -- Genocide is one of those words that is now used in so many different (and often misleading) ways that it has become hard to distinguish genuine genocidal violence from self-serving propaganda.
ID# 15764 -- 15764 -- The Seven Essential Truths of Digital Media Literacy -- Solid proposals for responding to the way in which digital media has worked its way into pretty much every corner of our lives.
ID# 15767 -- 15767 -- Democrats Are Still Not Thinking Seriously About Preventing Another Jan. 6 -- An argument that Democrats have, thus far, failed to respond to the threats posed by the extremes of Trump's candidacy with specific proposals for correcting the situation.
ID# 15769 -- 15769 -- Critical reflection: Ethical marketing of conflict resolution services -- Samantha Hardy argues that mediators need to be very careful to use an honest and accurate approach to marketing, to develop credibility and maintain the legitimacy of the field.
ID# 15770 -- 15770 -- Making mistakes about our opponents' hostile intent -- Zach Elwood reflects on a book on the causes of war, and wonders how many of those mistakes apply to the U.S. hyper-polarized society as well.
ID# 15771 -- 15771 -- Narratives of American Project -- This summer, the Narratives of America project has been part of important conversations with organizations and individuals who share a common goal: creating a new vision of social well-being where everyone can thrive.
ID# 15772 -- 15772 -- Religious Perspectives on the Narratives of America: The Search for Just, Honest, Inclusive and Forward-looking Tellings -- This set of essays was compiled by the US Bahá’í Office of Public Affairs, and the Aspen Institute which collaborated on this collection of essays from people of many faiths in the U.S.
ID# 15773 -- 15773 -- The Aspen Institute's Social Trust Index. -- This social trust index, available for every US zipcode, looks at three measures of trust in neighborhoods across the country, and provides info on how to build more trust.
ID# 15774 -- 15774 -- The Aspen Institute's Weave: the Social Fabric Project -- Weave tackles the problem of broken social trust that has left Americans divided, lonely, and in social gridlock. Weave connects, supports, and invests in local leaders stepping up to weave a new, inclusive social fabric where they live.
ID# 15775 -- 15775 -- Exploring the Dynamics of Project 2025 & Agenda 47 with Dr. Sean Evans -- From David Bekemeyer, an examination of two significant conservative policy initiatives and their potential implications for democracy.
ID# 15776 -- 15776 -- Obama’s DNC Speech Had a Hidden Message to Democrats -- Obama challenged the notion that "the only way to win is to scold and shame and out yell the other side."
ID# 15777 -- 15777 -- Trump Turned the Democratic Party Into a Pitiless Machine -- Ezra Klein's illuminating reflections on the differences between Democrats and Republicans.
ID# 15779 -- 15779 -- Harris can seal the deal this week by being new, improved — and loyal -- An example of delicate balancing strategies that are needed to win US elections.
ID# 15791 -- 15791 -- Beyond Intractability – A Different Kind of Information Resource -- 0
ID# 15793 -- 15793 -- BI History and Content -- Currently entitled "resources and quick start guide" I want to change this to BI History and Content, (history used to be 557, needs to be rolled into 4 in matchmaker tab if anything is coded 557.)
ID# 15794 -- 15794 -- Site Map -- 0
ID# 15795 -- 15795 -- News about the Beyond Intractability System -- 0
ID# 15796 -- 15796 -- Acknowledgements, Sources & Contributors -- 0
ID# 15797 -- 15797 -- Acknowledgements -- This is old page; probably needs to be updated.
ID# 15798 -- 15798 -- Contributors -- In process of being updated. Look thru discussion to find new authors. I stopped on NL 127, going backwards.
ID# 15799 -- 15799 -- Subscribe -- 0
ID# 15800 -- 15800 -- Contact -- 0
ID# 15801 -- 15801 -- Intractable Conflict -- Humanity's Most Serious Challenge and Greatest Opportunity -- 0
ID# 15802 -- 15802 -- The Nature of Intractable Conflict -- 0
ID# 15803 -- 15803 -- Intractable Conflicts and Dispute Streams -- 0
ID# 15804 -- 15804 -- What Makes Intractable Conflict So Difficult? -- 0
ID# 15805 -- 15805 -- Core Overlay Overview / Summary -- I have two versions of this, a long one and a short one. We need to choose which fits better here.
ID# 15806 -- 15806 -- Scale and Complexity Overview -- 0
ID# 15807 -- 15807 -- The Intractable Conflict Threat: The Consequences of Runaway Escalation and Hyper-Polarization -- 0
ID# 15808 -- 15808 -- Small-Group Intractable Conflict Threat -- 0
ID# 15809 -- 15809 -- Societal Level Intractable Conflict Threat -- 0
ID# 15810 -- 15810 -- The Constructive Conflict Promise: an Engine of Social Learning and Progress -- 0
ID# 15811 -- 15811 -- Defending Democracy in its Conflict with Authoritarianism -- I would argue that this is the Guide goal, not the BI goal. I changed the names including the url assuming this.
ID# 15812 -- 15812 -- Factors That Make Intractable Conflict So Difficult -- 0
ID# 15813 -- 15813 -- The Illusion of Simplicity -- 0
ID# 15814 -- 15814 -- The Limits of Business As Usual Approaches -- 0
ID# 15815 -- 15815 -- Deep-Rooted Core Differences -- 0
ID# 15816 -- 15816 -- Conflict "Overlay" Problems -- 0
ID# 15817 -- 15817 -- Escalation -- 0
ID# 15818 -- 15818 -- Communication Failures -- 0
ID# 15819 -- 15819 -- Factual Disputes -- 0
ID# 15820 -- 15820 -- Dispute Resolution Procedural Problems -- 0
ID# 15821 -- 15821 -- Collaboration Problems -- 0
ID# 15822 -- 15822 -- The Staggering Scale of Society-Wide Conflict -- drafted - but it is almost a complete overlap with the scale part of bi24/scale-complexity-overview. How do we deal with that?
ID# 15823 -- 15823 -- Additional Challenge of Societal Complexity -- drafted - but it is almost a complete overlap with bi24/scale-complexity-overview. How do we deal with that?
ID# 15824 -- 15824 -- Feedback Loops -- 0
ID# 15825 -- 15825 -- The Complex Nature of Power -- 0
ID# 15826 -- 15826 -- Democratic and Authoritarian Strategies for Handling Complexity -- 0
ID# 15827 -- 15827 -- The Relationship between Complexity, Scale, and Diversity -- 0
ID# 15828 -- 15828 -- Types of Complexity -- 0
ID# 15829 -- 15829 -- Challenges Posed by Bad-Faith Actors Who Who Are Trying to Profit by Undermining Collaboration and Power-with Democracy -- 0
ID# 15830 -- 15830 -- Types of Bad-Faith Actors -- 0
ID# 15831 -- 15831 -- Massively Parallel Peace and Democracy Building -- a Realistic Strategy for Dealing with the The Challenges of Scale and Complexity -- 0
ID# 15832 -- 15832 -- Understand the Complexity (It's Not Just Us-vs-Them) -- 0
ID# 15833 -- 15833 -- Ideas for Addressing Scale and Complexity to Build Upon -- 0
ID# 15834 -- 15834 -- Theories of Change -- 0
ID# 15835 -- 15835 -- Systems Thinking -- 0
ID# 15836 -- 15836 -- The Massively Parallel Approach to Scale and Complexity -- 0
ID# 15837 -- 15837 -- Pursue the Opportunities Created by All Conflict Problems -- 0
ID# 15838 -- 15838 -- Strengthening the Relationship between Theory and Action -- 0
ID# 15839 -- 15839 -- Amplifying and Speeding the Natural Conflict Learning Process -- 0
ID# 15840 -- 15840 -- Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Adjustment -- 0
ID# 15841 -- 15841 -- Civic Knowledge and Skills That We All Need to Constructively Handle Intractable Conflict -- 0
ID# 15842 -- 15842 -- Things That Those Committed to Making a Good-Faith Effort to Constructively Handling Intractable Conflict Need To Know -- 0
ID# 15843 -- 15843 -- Things You Need to Know to Defend Democracy from Bad-Faith Actors Who Are Trying to Profit by Undermining the System -- 0
ID# 15844 -- 15844 -- Specialized Massively Parallel Roles / Tasks -- 0
ID# 15845 -- 15845 -- About the Massively Parallel Roles -- 0
ID# 15846 -- 15846 -- Conflict Strategists -- 0
ID# 15847 -- 15847 -- Conflict Actors -- 0
ID# 15848 -- 15848 -- Sources of Today's Big Conflicts and Possible Solutions -- 0
ID# 15849 -- 15849 -- How YOU Can Help -- 0
ID# 15855 -- 15855 -- Hyper-Polarization and Democracy Newsletter -- 0
ID# 15856 -- 15856 -- About the Newsletter -- not yet created, but first, I changed the title from "about the discussion" to "about the newsletter." Second, I don't think we need this, since the about info is on the newsletter page.
ID# 15858 -- 15858 -- Framing Documents -- 0
ID# 15859 -- 15859 -- Beyond Intractability Knowledge Base -- 0
ID# 15860 -- 15860 -- Beyond Intractability Summer 2024 Reorganization -- 0
ID# 15887 -- 15887 -- The Case for a Merit-Based Immigration System -- For a world in which immigration has become a major flashpoint, concrete ideas for more constructively handling the many who would like to migrate.
ID# 15888 -- 15888 -- The Problem Is Islam—Not Islamism -- An article arguing that the popular distinction between Islamists and those who simply believe in Islam leads to serious (and potentially dangerous) misperceptions.
ID# 15890 -- 15890 -- Kissinger’s Folly -- A retrospective look at Henry Kissinger, realpolitik, and the applicability of that concept to contemporary geopolitics.
ID# 15892 -- 15892 -- The Hidden Grammatical Reason That ‘Weird’ Works -- In the context of Democratic efforts to use the word "weird" to describe their Republican adversaries, an essay exploring the ways in which linguistic dynamics affect our thinking.
ID# 15893 -- 15893 -- Why Wokeism Ruined Journalism — Everywhere -- A critical, controversial, and thought-provoking look at the way in which increasing adherence to progressive orthodoxies as undermined the quality of journalism.
ID# 15896 -- 15896 -- Why the Media Moves in Unison -- An explanation of the complex dynamics that lead journalists and the news media to cluster their reporting around relatively homogeneous points of view.
ID# 15897 -- 15897 -- A data-driven case for productivity optimism -- A hopeful argument that the economic productivity increases needed to "lift all boats" are actually happening.
ID# 15898 -- 15898 -- Kamala Harris Rushes to the Center -- From a critical, right-leaning perspective, a look at the steps that Kamala Harris and the Democrats are taking to better appeal to moderate, centrist, swing voters.
ID# 15901 -- 15901 -- Dr. Jay Van Bavel: Deprogramming the Partisan Brain | Debate Without Hate: 2024 Elections -- A video outlining a strategy for getting beyond partisan animosities and actually debating the issues.
ID# 15902 -- 15902 -- How liberals' worst-case readings of Trump actually help Trump -- Zach Elwood argues that avoiding highly pessimistic and certain interpretations of Trump is the right thing to do, on its own — but it’s also something politically passionate people should do for purely practical reasons.
ID# 15903 -- 15903 -- Debate Without Hate: A Podcast to Help You Navigate the Election -- A podcast series with experts delving into our nation’s division, threats that arise from this division, and how we can all engage in healthier, more productive political discourse.
ID# 15904 -- 15904 -- New Training and Tougher Rules: How Colleges Are Trying to Tame Gaza Protests -- A summary of the steps that institutions of higher education are taking to prevent the kind of politically explosive protests that occurred on so many campuses last spring.
ID# 15905 -- 15905 -- Why Are Carbon Emissions Up? -- A more understandable summary of the major new research report highlighting the fact that most of the things that we have been doing to fight climate change aren't working.
ID# 15907 -- 15907 -- Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades -- A major new study from the American Association for the Advancement of Science's, Science Magazine that argues that most of what we are doing to fight climate change isn't working. Time for a major rethink.
ID# 15908 -- 15908 -- The West’s Next Challenge Is the Rising Axis of Autocracies -- The dynamics of hyper-polarization are also playing out on a global scale with autocracies increasingly forming alliances to help them more effectively challenge Western democracies.
ID# 15909 -- 15909 -- Timur Kuran on Why We Lie About Our Beliefs -- As so many of us turn our attention to opinion polls offering the most recent gauge of public opinion, a look at why so many of us are reluctant to reveal our true beliefs to pollsters or anyone else.
ID# 15910 -- 15910 -- Our language, our world -- An article exploring the complex psychological dynamics that determine how the language that we use influences how we think, and how we think influences the culture in which we live.
ID# 15911 -- 15911 -- First Amendment Doesn't Protect Speech That Solicits a Specific Crime -- An examination of one of the most difficult issues facing free speech advocates -- where to draw the line between protected speech and criminal speech.
ID# 15912 -- 15912 -- UCLA Crafts FAQs On How Not To Enable Discrimination Against Jewish Students -- A look at what UCLA is and is not doing to protect Jewish students and reflections about how that compares to the treatment of other minority groups.
ID# 15913 -- 15913 -- This sceptred isle. Reflections on the revolution in England. -- As England struggles with what looks like a widespread rebellion against societal changes brought about by immigration, a thoughtful perspective on what is actually happening.
ID# 15914 -- 15914 -- The Intellectual Roots of YIMBYism -- Is YIMBY the true opposite of the NIMBY (not in my backyard) syndrome that has long prevented us from building most anything? Or, is it just a way of saying, yes, build it in somebody else's backyard.
ID# 15916 -- 15916 -- Weaponizing Sympathy: 'Pro-Palestinian' blackmail takes center stage. -- A thought-provoking and doubtless controversial look at the ways in which Hamas has managed to weaponize global sympathy for the plight of the Palestinian people (a plight that they deliberately cultivated).
ID# 15918 -- 15918 -- The Distinctiveness of Human Aggression -- A review and brief summary of the thought-provoking new book, "The Goodness Paradox -- The Strange Relationship between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution."
ID# 15919 -- 15919 -- The Return of History: Liberal Values and Global Realities -- A must-read essay that raises a critically important question, does human society naturally gravitate toward power-with, egalitarian democracy or power-over authoritarianism?
ID# 15920 -- 15920 -- Warning: Advocates of a ‘ceasefire-for-hostages’ deal are lying to you. -- A critique of ongoing efforts to negotiate a cease-fire/hostage-release deal that raises real questions about whether or not this is really a path to peace.
ID# 15921 -- 15921 -- ‘All the Struggles Are Connected.’Protesters failed to disrupt this week’s Democratic convention, but the party got the message. -- A Wall Street Journal report on the way in which the intersection between the various left-leaning interest groups has influenced the Democratic Party.
ID# 15922 -- 15922 -- In a Grim Palestinian Refugee Community, People See Hope in Hamas -- The report on what Palestinians are now thinking about Hamas, Israel, and the tragedy that has engulfed them.
ID# 15923 -- 15923 -- Trump's Lies Are More Injurious than Mere Propaganda -- Reflections on the extremely worrying downsides of a major party presidential candidate that systematically undermines the idea that there can be anything approaching objective truth.
ID# 15924 -- 15924 -- Democrat platform says America was built on stolen land -- An undoubtedly controversial, outside critique of the Democratic Party's obligatory "land acknowledgments" -- a critique that asks hard questions about our messy and fraught history.
ID# 15926 -- 15926 -- How to Be Truly Free: Lessons From a Philosopher President -- An in-depth profile of one of those rare political figures that thinks deeply about society and the role of government.
ID# 15927 -- 15927 -- The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt -- A provocative essay exploring the intersection between technology and culture.
ID# 15939 -- 15939 -- Gaza and the Apocalypse -- The surprising story of the large number of religious groups that see, in ongoing Mideast strife, the fulfillment of long anticipated prophecies.
ID# 15943 -- 15943 -- The Scandal Hidden in Plain Sight -- A provocative challenge to the idea that racism is responsible for all racial disparities -- and an alternative explanation that is hard to completely refute.
ID# 15950 -- 15950 -- Cynical interpretations of our adversaries' actions can amplify divides — and help our adversaries -- Zach Elwood talks about the responses he has received to a controversial article that he published in The Fulcrum on the consequences of cynicism.
ID# 15951 -- 15951 -- Going All The Way: The loneliness of the long-distance thinker -- Ashok Panikkar reflects on the "cognitive state" of the US citizenry, observing that it is "abysmal. " It "wouldn't be out of place in feudal and despotic societies where we would be proud serfs and well-behaved subjects."
ID# 15952 -- 15952 -- The New Paradigm Coalition -- Chip Hauss reports on an new coalition which seeks to "consider new paradigms that focus on interdependence, evolution, commons-related problems, and psychological flexibility."
ID# 15953 -- 15953 -- When We Think The Other Side is Bad, We Act Badly -- When we overestimate the opposition’s inclination to play foul, we risk delivering a self-fulfilling prophecy.
ID# 15954 -- 15954 -- Taking Democracy for Granted: Philanthropy, Polarization, and the Need for Responsible Pluralism -- A new report written by Daniel Stid in which he asserts that philanthropy, as it is currently practiced, has increased polarization. He urges philanthropists to practice "responsible pluralism" instead.
ID# 15957 -- 15957 -- Can We Be a Little Less Selective With Our Moral Outrage? -- As we agonize over the loss of life on the many fronts of Israel's ongoing war, an important reminder that there are a great many other tragedies that deserve attention.
ID# 15965 -- 15965 -- Class 35. How to Inoculate Your Mind Against Disinformation -- For a world in which so many people are trying to deceive us, a class on how to protect ourselves.
ID# 15981 -- 15981 -- How Fascism Happens by Mark Jones -- A review and summary of two important new books about the historical origins of fascism -- books with important insights about how we might be able to better protect ourselves.
ID# 15985 -- 15985 -- D.E.I. Is Not Working on College Campuses. We Need a New Approach. -- For a time in which DEI programs are clearly not delivering on the racial harmony that they promised, a critical review of current practices and the thoughts about more promising approaches.
ID# 15988 -- 15988 -- How the Progressive Left Adopted Oppressive 'Palestine' – A Guide -- An attempt to answer one of today's big mysteries -- why do Palestinians (who are so hostile to so many progressive beliefs) enjoy such strong support from the political left.
ID# 15990 -- 15990 -- Things Worth Remembering: Conversation Is an Art -- Reflections on what it really takes to master the art of conversation and constructive communication.
ID# 15995 -- 15995 -- What’s Ahead for Artificial Intelligence -- A big report from the Wall Street Journal on where the rapidly changing field of Artificial Intelligence is taking us.
ID# 15997 -- 15997 -- 'Anti-Zionism' is literally killing millions of people. -- A critical look at the anti-Zionism movement and an argument that the movement is a major contributor to global suffering.
ID# 16005 -- 16005 -- New Data Shows Threat and Harassment Events Doubled in July -- A report on a new study that quantifies the level of threat and harassment facing public officials.
ID# 16006 -- 16006 -- What Can a Chicago Gang Member Teach Us About Our Divides? Amanda Ripley Explains -- Reflections on our hyper-polarized politics from a surprising source (with a different perspective on conflict) -- the street gangs of Chicago.
ID# 16007 -- 16007 -- Calls For Unity at the DNC — But We Need More Than Words -- Are democratic calls for national unity political spin? Or, do they reflect genuine aspirations and policy priorities?
ID# 16015 -- 16015 -- How French Intellectuals Ruined the West -- An illuminating look at the intellectual foundations at the enormously consequential philosophical perspective of postmodernism.
ID# 16016 -- 16016 -- Matti Friedman: When We Started to Lie -- A look at how journalism evolved from a field devoted to truth telling to a field focused on supporting the "right way of looking at the world."
ID# 16021 -- 16021 -- The Enduring Wisdom of America's Founding Documents -- For a time in which faith in US democracy is plummeting, a review of the reasons why so many people have, throughout history, found the United States' founding principles to be so inspiring.
ID# 16022 -- 16022 -- Son of Hamas founder insists 'no such thing' as Israel, Hamas cease-fire until ayatollah is gone -- Thoughts on what it will really take to bring peace to Israel and its neighbors from a rare and valuable perspective -- the son of one of Hamas' founders.
ID# 16028 -- 16028 -- To Put It Bluntly -- A provocative critique of the now widespread practice of avoiding tough issues through euphemistic phraseology that prioritizes the avoidance of uncomfortable assertions.
ID# 16035 -- 16035 -- The Americans Who Yearn for Anti-American Propaganda -- An attempt to understand the motivations behind those who seek out information that deceptively demonizes Western democracies.
ID# 16038 -- 16038 -- Israel and the Coming Long War -- An illuminating attempt to apply the long war perspective to the ongoing conflict between Israel and its neighbors.
ID# 16043 -- 16043 -- Unlocking the Secrets of Misinformation with Samuel Spitale -- A conversation about how misinformation shapes our reality -- and what we can do about it.
ID# 16044 -- 16044 -- A Liberal Reader Criticizes Us for “Both-sides”-ism -- Starts with Us explains that examining polarizing behaviors from people across the political spectrum helps people on all sides see that they have an important role to play in healing our divisions and helping solve problems.
ID# 16045 -- 16045 -- Is Political Forgiveness an Antidote to Authoritarianism? -- Authoritarian movements take hold because of the choices we make. While we can also make choices that that will reverse these trends, we have to recognize what is happening first.
ID# 16046 -- 16046 -- How To Spot Authoritarianism — and Choose Democracy | Ian Bassin | TED -- Detailing the seven steps of the authoritarian playbook, Bassin invites us all to put aside our differences and rethink our role in the fight for freedom, revealing the hope and power behind every choice we make.
ID# 16047 -- 16047 -- Combatting Authoritarianism: The Skills and Infrastructure Needed to Organize Across Difference -- This 2022 article, by Maria Stephan and Julia Roig, is part of a series from leading experts with practical solutions to democratic backsliding, polarization, and political violence.
ID# 16048 -- 16048 -- Democracy Requires Disagreement. Here’s How To Do It Better. -- A TED Talk with Bret Stephens and Yordanos Eyoel who discuss why democracy is still our best hope. They also offer ways we can strengthen our societies by learning to disagree more constructively.
ID# 16049 -- 16049 -- Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments -- For those who find themselves engaged in free-speech debates, a review of strategies for rebutting common arguments against free speech.
ID# 16051 -- 16051 -- Alexandre Lefebvre on Liberalism as a Way of Life -- Liberalism is more than an approach to politics, it is a comprehensive set of cultural beliefs.
ID# 16052 -- 16052 -- Saving the Idea of the University at Dartmouth -- From the president of Dartmouth, thoughts about how universities might be better able to live up to to their traditional ideals.
ID# 16053 -- 16053 -- Trump’s Road Map for Taking ‘Woke’ Out of American Education -- From critics of the trend toward increasingly "woke" approaches to education, concrete plans for reversing those trends.
ID# 16055 -- 16055 -- Sympathy for the Undecided Voter -- In the context of the upcoming US Presidential election, a look at those suffering from what psychologists call avoidance-avoidance conflicts.
ID# 16056 -- 16056 -- Should a ‘Diverse’ Campus Mean More Conservatives? -- A look at the many arguments swirling around calling for more ideological diversity on campus.
ID# 16062 -- 16062 -- The Normalization of Terrorism in the West -- Reflections on the very different way in which Western societies have responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11 and October 7.
ID# 16064 -- 16064 -- Scenes From The Literary Blacklist -- A heartbreaking story about how cancel culture pressures are destroying young writers' careers and creativity before anyone really has a chance to hear what they have to say.
ID# 16068 -- 16068 -- Merrick Garland and the ‘Norms’ of Justice -- From the Wall Street Journal, a look at "lawfare" as practiced by Democrats.
ID# 16069 -- 16069 -- The Left’s Assault on the Constitution -- For those who see Democrats as defenders of our democratic (and Constitutional) institutions, a worrying story about the many Democrats who are embracing radical changes to those institutions.
ID# 16078 -- 16078 -- Israel complied with the UN — but peace never came. -- A look at the many instances in which the "land for peace" strategy that peacebuilders have urged upon Israel has failed (and reasons for us to ask harder questions about how best to deal with intractable conflict).
ID# 16082 -- 16082 -- Report: "The secret document found on a computer in Gaza, and revealed Sinwar's tactics in the negotiations -- A report on a document that supposedly reveals Hamas' secret strategy -- a strategy that is cynically exploiting the compassion and goodwill of so many in the West.
ID# 16085 -- 16085 -- Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis -- An interesting website that tries to balance mainstream media reports about the Middle East with easier access to "the other side of the story."
ID# 16086 -- 16086 -- Human shields: ‘Every third house’ in south Lebanon is used by Hezbollah for military purposes -- An alarming report that makes clear the degree to which Hamas' civilian shield/sacrifice strategy is being used by Hezbollah in Lebanon.
ID# 16087 -- 16087 -- John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism -- A thought-provoking essay highlighting the ways in which Marxist thought has evolved in the West over the last several decades.
ID# 16088 -- 16088 -- Abolish Grades -- A description of a surprisingly well reasoned strategy for limiting the ways in which grade inflation is distorting the educational incentives of today's college students.
ID# 16089 -- 16089 -- American College Student Freedom, Progress, and Flourishing Survey -- A big statistical report that offers an illuminating window into the life and thinking of today's college students.
ID# 16094 -- 16094 -- Hamas’s ideological commitment -- A short video making the argument that the conflict between Israel and its neighbors is about religion, not land.
ID# 16095 -- 16095 -- How the War on Terror Warped the American Left -- A thought-provoking exploration ways in which the war on terror influenced the thinking of those on the political left.
ID# 16098 -- 16098 -- Dark Tunnels and Moral Beacons -- Reflections on the execution of six Israeli hostages after so many months of captivity -- an act of self-dehumanization on the part of Hamas that seems designed to further compound the tragedy.
ID# 16099 -- 16099 -- Things Worth Remembering: The Imperfection of America -- An argument for holding democratic institutions to a more reasonable standard -- one that reflects the fact that we are a long ways from figuring out a perfect process for governing ourselves.
ID# 16100 -- 16100 -- The Taliban Have Reached a New Low. How Can the World Respond? -- A reminder of the enormous human costs that have accompanied, in the wake of US withdrawal, the rise of the Taliban.
ID# 16101 -- 16101 -- How the psychology of political division could lead us out of it -- Further thoughts on the complex psychology driving (and, potentially, undermining) hyperpolarization.
ID# 16103 -- 16103 -- Twitter Runs On Hate -- But Its Users Don't Reflect Real Life -- An essay exploring the hateful rhetoric that provides so much of Twitter/X's energy and the relationship between those views and mainstream public opinion.
ID# 16104 -- 16104 -- ‘UNDIVIDE US’ Film is Breaking Down Barriers for Civil Conversation -- From the Philanthropy Roundtable, guidelines for promoting more constructive ways of discussing controversial issues.
ID# 16108 -- 16108 -- The Distance between September and October is Far More than a Month -- Important reflections on the differing ways in which the world has responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11 and October 7
ID# 16113 -- 16113 -- Weaponizing Anger is a Useful Political Strategy -- A provocative essay exploring the ways in which anger has been cultivated and exploited for political gain.
ID# 16114 -- 16114 -- Traitors and the Advantages of Criticizing Your Side – BCB #117 -- An explanation of an important de-escalation strategy -- accepting responsibility for your side's role driving hyper-polarization and undermining democracy.
ID# 16116 -- 16116 -- Israel’s Strategic Win -- An insightful article exploring the strategic implications of Israel's recent attacks on Hezbollah and what these attacks portend for the future of the Middle East.
ID# 16118 -- 16118 -- Unprepared for the rising, nightmarish risk of biological Warfare -- A wake up call highlighting the largely unrecognized threat posed by another rapidly advancing military technology -- biowarfare.
ID# 16120 -- 16120 -- America Isn’t Ready for the Wars of the Future: And They’re Already Here -- Pax Americana relied heavily upon expensive US weapon systems -- systems that are rapidly becoming obsolete and ineffective (and are not being replaced).
ID# 16123 -- 16123 -- Matt Walsh’s Hilarious New Film Asks: ‘Am I Racist?’ -- A guide to the many reasons why so many strongly oppose DEI programs (criticisms that the many defenders of those programs really need to address).
ID# 16124 -- 16124 -- Economic Theory for the Real World -- An overview of an important new book that offers a major upgrade to economic thinking -- an upgrade that promises to improve our ability to deal with the astonishing complexities of today's economy.
ID# 16128 -- 16128 -- When Fact-Checks Backfire -- In theory, fact checking provides one of our most important tools for combating misinformation. This article takes a critical look at the factors undermining the effectiveness of these tools.
ID# 16130 -- 16130 -- The People Who Rage Against the Machine -- A profile of a surprising new political coalition, the Doomer Optimists -- a group united in opposition to modernity's supposed progress.
ID# 16131 -- 16131 -- U.S. Shrugs as World War III Approaches -- A quick summary of the report of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy -- a politically neglected, but critically important, warning about the West's declining ability to deter war and defend itself.
ID# 16132 -- 16132 -- Federal Debt Is Soaring. Here’s Why Trump and Harris Aren’t Talking About It. -- An examination of the ways in which we are resolving distributional conflicts by pretending that we have more resources than we do.
ID# 16140 -- 16140 -- I fought in Iraq — I know Israel’s doing all it can to save civilians -- A former NATO commander (and self-described skeptic of Israeli actions) reports on his fact-finding mission to Israel and Gaza.
ID# 16141 -- 16141 -- America first? Or the United States as the leader of the free world? -- An essay about the great debate of 1940 about America's proper role in the world -- a debate that could inform today's consideration the same issue.
ID# 16142 -- 16142 -- ProSocial World -- The purpose of ProSocial World is to consciously evolve a world that works for all.
ID# 16143 -- 16143 -- Exposure to Outgroup Members Criticizing Their Own Group Facilitates Intergroup Openness -- Across four experiments, Israeli Jews who were exposed to a Palestinian criticizing Palestinians were more open to the Palestinians' perspective of the conflict, than those not exposed to the criticism
ID# 16144 -- 16144 -- The Carter Center U.S. Elections Project -- The Center is working to support US elections by providing objective information about the election process and advancing good practices in transparency.
ID# 16145 -- 16145 -- Peaceworks Foundation -- Peaceworks is committed to persuade a critical mass of Israelis and Palestinians to reject the status quo and unlock the full potential of both peoples.
ID# 16146 -- 16146 -- 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer -- This tool reveals a new paradox at the heart of society. Rapid innovation offers the promise of a new era of prosperity, but instead, it risks exacerbating trust issues, leading to further societal instability and political polarization.
ID# 16147 -- 16147 -- An explosive moment of clarification -- A controversial and thought-provoking argument that "Israel is leading the fight of good against evil while the "civilised" world doesn't know what side it’s on."
ID# 16151 -- 16151 -- America’s First True Dictator -- From Anne Applebaum, a profile of Louisiana Governor Huey Long -- a man that she argues figured out how to bring dictatorship to US democracy.
ID# 16152 -- 16152 -- The Most Surprising New Gun Owners Are U.S. Liberals -- A story about a surprising and worrying development -- a significant uptick of the number of people on the political left who are buying guns.
ID# 16162 -- 16162 -- Art Under Quiet Siege -- More reason to think that, in the name of diversity, we are robbing ourselves of the diverse voices that we all need to learn, evolve, and enjoy one another's creative insights.
ID# 16163 -- 16163 -- In Colorado, a Murder and a Viral Video Stoke Fears of Migrant Crime -- An example of the kind of in-depth reporting that gives us all a chance to separate fact from politically convenient fiction.
ID# 16164 -- 16164 -- Eight months later, how have things changed? How are we different? Or not? -- After two thirds of the year, reflections on the increase in the long shadow being cast by the October 7 attack.
ID# 16166 -- 16166 -- The Medical Establishment Closes Ranks, and Patients Feel the Effects -- An exploration of one area in which elites have lost the public's trust, and a call for those in the medical profession to do better.
ID# 16169 -- 16169 -- Hezbollah device attacks: Is this a prelude to war, or an alternative? -- Thoughtful reflections on a critically important question -- whether or not the recent use of force against Hezbollah is increasing or decreasing the risk of a wider war.
ID# 16171 -- 16171 -- These Four Things Are Behind The Totalitarianism We Are Witnessing -- For those on the left worried about totalitarianism from the right, and interview explaining why many of those on the right fear that the left is a totalitarian force.
ID# 16172 -- 16172 -- Japan Offers a Glimpse into the Future -- A story about how Japan is struggling with an energy trilemma in which it seeks to simultaneously balance economic growth, energy security, and meeting international emissions reductions commitments.
ID# 16174 -- 16174 -- PeaceCon 2024 and Beyond -- A report on the Alliance for Peacebuilding's annual PeaceCon conference and, especially, efforts to focus the Alliance's expertise in the US.
ID# 16175 -- 16175 -- Many are overstating Americans' support for political violence — and it's frustrating -- Are we overstating the problem of political violence in the United States? And, could this become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
ID# 16176 -- 16176 -- From Essential Partners: It's Not You! Questions are Hard to Write. -- An essay exploring the critically important role that questions play in framing conversations.
ID# 16177 -- 16177 -- Depolarizing AI and the Evolution of Political Discourse -- A thought-provoking conversation exploring the complex relationships between consciousness, culture, and AI.
ID# 16178 -- 16178 -- Could Congress Leverage AI to Help Restore Faith in US Democracy? -- One of those rare stories that asks how AI might actually be used to strengthen democracy and limit political dysfunction.
ID# 16179 -- 16179 -- Want More Votes? Try Depolarization -- For a society in which hatemongering, anger-provoking strategies dominate political discourse, an argument that the opposite might be more effective.
ID# 16180 -- 16180 -- Dignity: The Hidden Campaign Strategy -- Conspicuous disrespect is one of the most effective strategies for intensifying political opposition. This article explains the advantages of forsaking that strategy.
ID# 16181 -- 16181 -- ‘You dared to strike at Israel, now they’ve sent you back 1,000 years’ – Arab commentator mocks Hezbollah -- From an Arab commentator, a surprising critique of Hezbollah's military strategy.
ID# 16182 -- 16182 -- Maybe It’s Time for Jewish Self-Segregation -- For a time in which we claim to oppose hate and embrace tolerance and diversity, a look at how antisemitic hate (based on Israel's efforts to defend itself from real hate) is driving Jews into internal exile.
ID# 16183 -- 16183 -- Why Are Museums So Afraid of This Artist? -- A profile about an artist famous for disdaining the cult of personality and challenging the art world to address society's tough issues.
ID# 16184 -- 16184 -- The Junkification of American Life -- An insightful look at the ways in which the commercial success of tech driven dopamine highs is transforming our society.
ID# 16186 -- 16186 -- Revisiting BI's Constructive Conflict Initiative - Part 2 -- 0
ID# 16186 -- 16186 -- Revisiting BI's Constructive Conflict Initiative - Part 2 -- This second half of our update on BI's Constructive Conflict Initiative, looks at what might be done to strengthen the ability of those conflict-related fields could still do to strengthen and improve democracy and the way in which our societies deal with intractable conflict.
ID# 16187 -- 16187 -- The Threat of Political Violence in the United States -- 0
ID# 16187 -- 16187 -- The Threat of Political Violence in the United States -- The number of people supporting political violence is not nearly the 30% that has been often reported, but it is still much higher than it should be. We all need to try to calm down our rhetoric so things don't get out of hand.
ID# 16189 -- 16189 -- Caleb Christen and Vinay Orekondy Talk about the Better Together America Project -- 0
ID# 16189 -- 16189 -- Caleb Christen and Vinay Orekondy Talk about the Better Together America Project -- 0
ID# 16189 -- 16189 -- Caleb Christen and Vinay Orekondy Talk about the Better Together America Project -- Caleb Christen and Vinay Orekondy talk about the democracy and civic hubs they are helping form around the country to bring "democracy back to the people" where it can actually work.
ID# 16190 -- 16190 -- Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 1 -- 0
ID# 16190 -- 16190 -- Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 1 -- The first of a five-part series outlining our latest thinking on massively parallel democracy building. This installment briefly introduces the core argument about what the threats to democracy are, and what is needed to meet them.
ID# 16191 -- 16191 -- September 11, October 7, and Our Changing Responses to Terrorism -- 0
ID# 16191 -- 16191 -- September 11, October 7, and Our Changing Responses to Terrorism -- 0
ID# 16191 -- 16191 -- September 11, October 7, and Our Changing Responses to Terrorism -- 0
ID# 16191 -- 16191 -- September 11, October 7, and Our Changing Responses to Terrorism -- A comparison of the differing reactions to the terrorism of September 11 and October 7 plus an exchange of views on the role that dehumanization is playing in the ongoing Middle East wars.
ID# 16193 -- 16193 -- Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 2 -- In this 2nd (of 5) installments of the Burgess's Toda Policy Brief on Massively Parallel Democracy Building, we look at some of the threats facing democracy in the United States, and where they could lead if they aren't addressed soon.
ID# 16194 -- 16194 -- Could Congress Leverage AI to Help Restore Faith in US Democracy? -- Communication between Congressmembers and their constituents is democracy’s mission critical data. Combined with other kinds of expertise, this data could serve as the digital foundation of a modern representative system.
ID# 16196 -- 16196 -- Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 3 -- The resilience of American democracy is based on three factors: an abundant array of tools for resisting those who threaten democratic institutions, a willingness to use those tools, and the creativity needed to develop new responses to new challenges.
ID# 16197 -- 16197 -- Comments on Our Post Comparing Responses to October 7 to Those of September 11 -- Comments from two readers about the Burgess's comparison of responses to October 7 and 9-11, one from an American, the other from an Israeli peacebuilder who also serves as an active reservist in the IDF.
ID# 16199 -- 16199 -- Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 4 -- This 4th (of 5) installments of the Burgess's Toda Policy Brief on Massively Parallel Democracy Building lays out seven essential goals, all of which contribute to developing a "power-with democracy" to replace "power-over" approaches.
ID# 16200 -- 16200 -- Massively Parallel Problem Solving and Democracy Building: An Ongoing Response to the Threats to Democracy in the U.S. - Part 5 -- This final installment of the Burgess's Toda Policy Brief on Massively Parallel Democracy Building describes 53 different roles which all need to be filled simultaneously for democracy strengthening efforts to succeed. And everyone fits somewhere!
ID# 16202 -- 16202 -- “Don’t Destroy What you Want to Inherit”: Peacebuilding Holds the Key to Building a Strong United States of America -- A guest post from a MSc student at Ulster University in Northern Ireland, charting a way forward in the United States after the election -- suggesting three critical steps the U.S. might take to avoid "destroying the country we want our children to inherit."
ID# 16203 -- 16203 -- Emma Addams and Jennifer Thomas Talk about Mormon Women for Ethical Government -- Emma Addams and Jennifer Thomas talk about the founding, the principles, and the "magic sauce" that has made the Mormon Women for Ethical Government so successful.
ID# 16237 -- 16237 -- How to Evaluate Media Coverage of Israel: A Guide -- A practical framework for determining the degree to which media coverage of Israel's ongoing war with Iran and its proxies is actually reliable.
ID# 16238 -- 16238 -- Don’t Blame Political Violence on Political Rhetoric -- A thoughtful essay exploring the complex relationship between the violent language we often employ and the way in which we actually behave.
ID# 16239 -- 16239 -- The Grave Error of Old-School Liberals -- The challenge for traditional liberals worried about the declining influence of their political philosophy -- think about the ways in which your actions may have contributed to this decline.
ID# 16240 -- 16240 -- Lighthouse Parents Have More Confident Kids -- A new word to add to the lexicon of parenting philosophies, lighthouse parenting (an option that has a lot to recommend it).
ID# 16243 -- 16243 -- America is becoming less “woke” -- A statistical analysis that strongly suggests that influence of "woke" ideas is declining in the US.
ID# 16248 -- 16248 -- The Surprising Reality of Political Violence in America -- A somewhat reassuring update on what we really know about US trends with respect to political violence.
ID# 16262 -- 16262 -- Tally Of US Wind & Solar Rejections Hits 735 -- Hard data indicating that efforts to limit climate change are being threatened by our failure to effectively address the many conflicts that surround wind and solar development projects.
ID# 16264 -- 16264 -- America’s Crisis of Deterrence: How to Adapt an Old Theory to New Realities -- From Foreign Affairs, carefully considered thoughts about how we can deter war by modifying deterrence strategies to better reflect complex 21st-century strategic realities.
ID# 16273 -- 16273 -- Researchers to quantify political polarization -- An announcement of Dartmouth University's new Polarization Research Lab -- an effort to move beyond anecdotal evidence and quantify the nature and magnitude of the hyper-polarization problem.
ID# 16274 -- 16274 -- Australia's Misinformation Police -- A worrying account of Australia's new effort to legally prohibit disinformation -- an effort that could easily wind up criminalizing political criticism
ID# 16277 -- 16277 -- The information war is critical. The U.S. must not lose it to China. -- The geopolitical information war is at least as important as the emerging global arms race. This article highlights things that Western democracies can do to help protect themselves.
ID# 16278 -- 16278 -- Section 230 Catches Up to AI -- A description of ongoing litigation that might help overcome the "Section 230" problem and hold tech companies responsible for the content that their algorithms are pushing on users.
ID# 16282 -- 16282 -- How Lying Became Disinformation -- A must read article exploring both the problem of disinformation and the ways in which elites (on both the left and right) are hijacking efforts to limit the problem.
ID# 16285 -- 16285 -- The Basics: Deference Politics -- A thoughtful essay asking hard questions about the fuzzy relationship between elite promises to really do something about the plight of the less privileged and substantive actions that actually do make a difference.
ID# 16294 -- 16294 -- A Renewed Union? -- A review and overview of an important new book: "Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis," by James Hunter.
ID# 16296 -- 16296 -- As Newspapers Fade, Journalists Are Finding New Ways to Cover Local News -- A pretty sober assessment of the difficulties facing local news -- an assessment that, surprisingly, also contains good news about the successes that journalists are having in finding ways to continue their work.
ID# 16304 -- 16304 -- Israel’s Pager Attacks Have Changed the World -- Israel's ongoing war with Iran and its proxies (and Ukraine's simultaneous wa with Russiar) are opening up new arenas for conflict -- arenas that attack the vulnerabilities of modern, high-tech societies.
ID# 16307 -- 16307 -- Gaza’s Suffering Is Unprecedented -- A sobering reminder of the immense suffering produced by the ongoing war in Gaza and an eloquent appeal for all concerned to take the steps needed to prevent a repeat of the tragedy.
ID# 16315 -- 16315 -- Believing and Doubting -- The description of a solid, practical strategy for reading in ways that promote mutual understanding and empathy, while limiting misinformed and hateful animosities.
ID# 16316 -- 16316 -- The Real Questions of the Immigration Debate -- From a thoughtful, conservative perspective, an example of how to constructively raise difficult and controversial issues without fear and hatemongering.
ID# 16323 -- 16323 -- Civilization Works -- Civilization Works is a research organization that is defending the pillars of civilization: Free Speech, Cheap Energy, Meritocracy, Law and Order, Equal Justice, Free and Fair Elections, and Childhood.
ID# 16324 -- 16324 -- We All Win, or We All Lose -- An essay Duncan Autrey wrote several years ago, and just recently reposted, asking how we can work together to build a world better for all of us, not just half of us.
ID# 16325 -- 16325 -- Democracy Resource Hub -- The Hub offers curated tools and connections for democracy practitioners worldwide. Access resources on civic engagement, nonviolent action, peacebuilding, and strategic planning, and joining the global community of dialogue practitioners.
ID# 16326 -- 16326 -- Toolkit for Repsonding to Violent Conflicts -- From the Canadian Friends Service Committee, a toolkit of responses to small scale and large scale violence.
ID# 16327 -- 16327 -- Both Sides of the Gun Debate Come Together at the Tennessee 11 Premiere -- From Starts with Us, a film about all sides working together to find common ground on guns.
ID# 16328 -- 16328 -- From Contempt to Connection: How Curiosity Transforms Us -- In the latest episode of “Debate Without Hate: Elections 2024,” Scott Shigeoka, author of "Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World," talks about the power of genuine curiosity.
ID# 16332 -- 16332 -- Why Israel should NOT have a “day after plan” for Gaza -- A reprint of an insightful, older article that explains why it is almost impossible to plan for the replacement of the despotic regime while that regime remains in power.
ID# 16333 -- 16333 -- Meritocracy and Its Critics -- An articulate defense of meritocratic institutions and ideas -- a defense that provides an important counterpoint to the more critical views that now dominate.
ID# 16334 -- 16334 -- Where Environmentalists Went Wrong -- An essay that explains why, with respect to the environment and so many other issues, it is critically important that we wisely and equitably balance costs and benefits.
ID# 16337 -- 16337 -- Harris Puts Government Intervention at Heart of Economic Policy -- A reminder that at the heart of the United States' hyperpolarized political rhetoric, there is a real debate over hugely consequential issues like the role the government should play in our daily lives.
ID# 16339 -- 16339 -- Confessions of a Russian Propagandist -- A first-hand account of how 21st-century Russian propaganda techniques work with important lessons about how we can protect ourselves from internal and external actors willing to use those techniques.
ID# 16341 -- 16341 -- The True Costs of America’s Gun Obsession -- In the context of the United States' cherished gun rights, a reminder that rights are not cost free.
ID# 16342 -- 16342 -- Kamala Harris Said She Owns a Gun for a Very Strategic Reason -- In the context of political persuasion, an exploration of the relationship between two activities -- "virtue signaling" and "vice signaling."
ID# 16344 -- 16344 -- “There’s Nothing Mystical About the Idea that Ideas Change History” -- A Steven Pinker interview with important food for thought on one of the most important "theories of change" -- the ability of ideas to transform the society in which we live.
ID# 16345 -- 16345 -- What Is It You Just Called Me? -- Ashok Panikkar says "insults work better if you know what they really mean. So he explains -- the meaning of democracy, socialism, conservative, liberal, progressive, etc. Not really "insults," but…
ID# 16347 -- 16347 -- Responding Across the System -- To tackle complex challenges, we know we need to go from disjointed isolated responses, to coordinated multi-point strategies – or from confetti to spaghetti as Ingrid Burkett would say.
ID# 16350 -- 16350 -- Within Collaborative 2024 Election Preparation -- This guide is designed to help people identify sources of resilience and sustainable action. Their goal is to nurture hope, build connections, promote care and focus, and be prepared for different election outcomes.
ID# 16352 -- 16352 -- New Survey Results Find That Worry About Hostility Is on the Rise Among Local Elected Officials -- New survey results indicate that concerns over harassment, threats, and physical attacks have significantly increased in the wake of high-profile incidents like the shooting of former President Trump.
ID# 16353 -- 16353 -- Eighty-Member Bipartisan National Citizens Panel Uses The Dignity Index To Score the Presidential Debate between Harris and Trump -- "Our nation’s divisions are not caused by our disagreements," said Shriver, co-creator of the Dignity Index. “They’re caused by treating others with contempt when we disagree."
ID# 16354 -- 16354 -- Challenge-Led Innovation: Organising for Systems Innovation at Scale -- To be alive in this moment is to be innovating by necessity. We need to organize many diverse innovations across institutions and geographies to address our most pressing challenges.
ID# 16355 -- 16355 -- Making the Climate a Blue Issue Was a Mistake -- Climate change can and should be a cause that people across the political spectrum are invested in. The key to making that happen may well be in how we frame conversations about the issue.
ID# 16358 -- 16358 -- Israel Defends Itself—and May Save Western Civilization -- From the Wall Street Journal, an argument that Israel is not just defending itself, it is defending all Western liberal democracies.
ID# 16365 -- 16365 -- Hahrie Han | Tanner Lecture 1 | Stories of Democracy Realized: Becoming, Belonging, Building -- A series of lectures exploring the ways in which different communities (including Christian faith communities) practice democracy,
ID# 16366 -- 16366 -- A Revolution of the Soul -- An article about one effort to craft a vision for adapting democracy to the challenges of the 21st-century.
ID# 16368 -- 16368 -- Americans Are More Reliant Than Ever on Government Aid -- Truly startling statistics about how, in recent decades, US citizens have become so dependent upon governmental financial assistance.
ID# 16373 -- 16373 -- Why the Arab Street Is Celebrating Israel's Killing of Hezbollah Chief Nasrallah | Opinion -- Hopeful news that there is little grassroots support for the ruinous wars launched by Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
ID# 16378 -- 16378 -- Teach the Conflicts: It’s natural—and right—to foster disagreement in the classroom -- An argument for engaging, rather than avoiding, controversial issues in the classroom.
ID# 16386 -- 16386 -- Things Worth Remembering: Mr. Biden, This Is How You Defend Israel -- A retrospective look at what Daniel Patrick Moynihan had to say about Israel and the many threats it faced in 1975 -- a speech with important lessons for today.
ID# 16419 -- 16419 -- Horizon's VISTA -- An amazingly rich compilation of resources every month, but the September 2024 issue was particularly full of excellent resources on threats to democracy and responses to those threats.
ID# 16424 -- 16424 -- Bipartisanship Reinvigorated -- From the journal Democracy, a symposium and set of papers on top down and bottom up ways to invigorate bipartisan democracy.
ID# 16452 -- 16452 -- Convenings, Cohorts + Communities: Notes on so-called "impact" gatherings -- Previous models of conferences and events are getting blown up and replaced with an array of experiences, interventions, connectivity practices and celebrations to foster deeper engagement and more substantial change work.
ID# 16457 -- 16457 -- The Wisdom of Cicadas -- Those of us paying attention to various social movements for love, dignity, and justice should recognize the natural wisdom of a periodic convergence of broods.
ID# 16458 -- 16458 -- Leading Systems Change from Within -- Stepping into the work of changing systems is not just an additional set of activities and strategies; it is also a dramatic and intentional shift in how you show up in your own leadership.
ID# 16460 -- 16460 -- A Recipe for a Striving America -- From David Brooks, an illuminating attempt to formulate a vision for an America that can start filling in its deep economic and political chasms.
ID# 16461 -- 16461 -- Democrats Have a Corruption Problem. They Can’t Keep Ignoring It. -- From Sarah Chayes, a renowned expert on global corruption, a reminder that the scourge of corrupt politics extends into the Democratic Party.
ID# 16463 -- 16463 -- The World Is in Love with America -- For a time when Americans on the left and the right seem to have nothing good to say about their country, news that much of the world still sees much to admire the United States.
ID# 16468 -- 16468 -- Hamas built an underground war machine to ensure its own survival -- Evidence that Hamas realized and planned for the devastating war that it's October 7 attack was designed to provoke.
ID# 16471 -- 16471 -- How Do You Forgive the People Who Killed Your Family? -- From Rwanda, an agonizing story about what it takes for society to recover from a period of genocidal violence (and another reason for preventing such violence).
ID# 16473 -- 16473 -- Is Culture Dying? -- An explanation of the complex processes that are leading to the "deculturation" of so many places and reflections on the implications of this trend.
ID# 16474 -- 16474 -- I’ve written many dark and stormy columns on free speech. Not this one. -- An upbeat observation that, as a society, we may be rediscovering the virtues of free speech.
ID# 16477 -- 16477 -- We Need More Costly Signaling -- For a time when our politics is distorted by inexpensive and superficial virtue-signaling, an argument that, to be seen as virtuous, people ought to do something significant that really makes a difference.
ID# 16481 -- 16481 -- Is Europe Becoming Ungovernable? -- An article highlighting the many ways in which hyper-polarization has made Europe so dysfunctional.
ID# 16483 -- 16483 -- Benny Gantz: What the World Needs to Understand About Iran -- From a former Israeli Defense Minister, an explanation of why Israel regards Iran as a major threat toIsrael and the global community.
ID# 16491 -- 16491 -- Oct. 7 and the Iranian Nuclear Threat -- A must-read article about what is now clearly a war between Israel and Iran and the likelihood that Iran, with its deep support for terror and martyrdom, will soon possess nuclear weapons.
ID# 16492 -- 16492 -- The Censorship Industrial Complex Is US Government Counterpopulist Blowback -- Food for thought for those who on the left to do not understand why those on the right are so upset about efforts to combat misinformation.
ID# 16497 -- 16497 -- What if everyone is wrong about what AI does? -- A contrarian look at the way in which we have been thinking about Artificial Intelligence and a reminder of the complexities involved in predicting the impact of the new technology.
ID# 16503 -- 16503 -- Trump’s Plan Boosts Budget Deficits by $7.5 Trillion, Double Harris’s Proposal -- Amid the bidding war for President of the United States, a reminder that, for every trillion dollars of deficit spending, each US citizen assumes $3000 in debt -- debt on which interest will be paid in perpetuity.
ID# 16506 -- 16506 -- How I Found FAIR -- An important analysis of the many benefits of political tolerance and the organization, FAIR, which champions this approach to politics.
ID# 16507 -- 16507 -- A Naked Desperation to Be Seen -- The report on efforts to reverse the terrible dehumanization that accompanies all-out war is like the one being fought in Gaza.
ID# 16508 -- 16508 -- The Mistakes Israel Can’t Afford to Repeat -- The outcome of war is not determined by the rightness of one's cause. Instead, what matters is an ability to avoid strategic and tactical mistakes.
ID# 16519 -- 16519 -- Towards a Post-Hamas Future -- A hopeful essay about a postwar future in which Palestinians may be able to escape the iron grasp of Hamas and its ruinous policies.
ID# 16520 -- 16520 -- They Still Won't Say That They're Sorry: deindustrialization's victims and the wonks who won't acknowledge them -- Thought on the ways in which proponents of globalization have failed to acknowledge (and take steps to remedy) the adverse impacts associated with their policies.
ID# 16524 -- 16524 -- The State of Civil Society Peacebuilding between Israelis and Palestinians -- An astonishing report with detailed data showing that civil society peacebuilding is thriving in Israel, even during the war.
ID# 16525 -- 16525 -- 2024 Healing Starts Here Retreat -- Essential Partners' reflection on the New Pluralists retreat, together with the inspiring video shown at the retreat.
ID# 16526 -- 16526 -- Can Humor Cure Outrage? Jonathan Bernstein Thinks So -- David Beckemeyer talks to Jonathan Bernstein author of Election Day, a book that uses satire to inspire voter turnout and encourage civic engagement.
ID# 16527 -- 16527 -- Working for the Wellbeing of Current and Future Generations -- Learning from in-country innovations and building a global community for change -- the Implementation Handbook for the UN Declaration on Future Generations.
ID# 16528 -- 16528 -- Democracy plays no role in the UN’s Pact for the Future -- The Pact for the Future, adopted at the United Nations Summit of the Future on 22-23 September in New York, is a pivotal framework designed to address global challenges with a long-term vision extending beyond 2030. Surprisingly, this vision does not include democracy.
ID# 16529 -- 16529 -- 21st-Century Democracy: Building a Transnational Innovation Ecosystem -- From the Stanford Social Innovation Review, an argument that pro-democracy actors and movements must move out of their silos and create strong cross-contextual connections.
ID# 16533 -- 16533 -- Iran Is at a Strategic Crossroads -- After its latest escalation, Tehran may be forced to reconsider its entire approach to national security, including leveraging its status as a threshold nuclear state to counter Israel.
ID# 16537 -- 16537 -- More Polarization, More Election Distrust: Why We Must Avoid Temptations to Call Elections "Rigged" -- Starts with Us argues that we must see that when we call elections “illegitimate” without very strong reasons, we hurt America.
ID# 16538 -- 16538 -- Business for Democracy: A Call for Courage and Action -- There is ample evidence that democracies around the world are being threatened by authoritarian populist forces, and that the best antidote to stemming this tide is broad-based, “big tent” organizing to stand up for democratic norms and freedoms.
ID# 16539 -- 16539 -- Dignity Wins at the VP Debate -- The Dignity Index scored the two US Vice Presidential Candidates at their debate, finding that both candidates scored well, treating the other with respect.
ID# 16540 -- 16540 -- The Great Betrayal: How I messed with Progressive Perfection. -- Our colleague Ashok Panikkar explains how he came to believe that progressive beliefs are not always correct -- and what happened when he said so.
ID# 16541 -- 16541 -- What If Listening Isn’t the Key to Persuasion – BCB #119 -- Listening may not change minds like we thought it did. Still, there are many other effective ways to build understanding and collaboration among those who disagree with you.
ID# 16553 -- 16553 -- Totaling Up the Damage in Gaza After a Year of War -- An inventory of the incredible human costs of the war in Gaza and a reminder of why war prevention is so important.
ID# 16554 -- 16554 -- The Abortion Distortion Campaign -- Disturbing news that Democrats (who like to complain about disinformation) are, with respect to abortion, spreading their own brand of disinformation.
ID# 16556 -- 16556 -- Terror in a Safe Space, a Year On -- An exploration of the coming collision between a dangerous and violent world and a citizenry that has become accustomed to safety and security.
ID# 16561 -- 16561 -- The Global Struggle: Democracies vs. Dictatorships -- Thought-provoking reflections on the intensifying conflict between democratic and authoritarian societies -- a conflict that may soon frame most everything else.
ID# 16563 -- 16563 -- ‘College for all’ needs a rethink. National security could depend on it. -- In the midst of an increasingly serious national security challenge, an argument that our college-focused educational system is not producing enough people with the essential, blue-collar skills we need.
ID# 16564 -- 16564 -- Constructive Conflict Resource Guide - Overview -- 0
ID# 16571 -- 16571 -- The elusive ‘policy-driven’ undecided voter -- An article about the complex process through which still undecided voters make their decisions.
ID# 16577 -- 16577 -- I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is -- An alarming look at rapid changes now taking place in the way in which young people learn about society and the diminishing influence of information sources that were prominent in just a few years ago.
ID# 16584 -- 16584 -- Woke Is Here To Stay -- An argument that "woke" political ideas will continue to be a major force -- one that casts a long shadow across the social and political landscape.
ID# 16586 -- 16586 -- Supreme Court Reform Is in the Air -- An especially good overview of proposals to "reform" the Supreme Court and the relative advantages and disadvantages of each.
ID# 16587 -- 16587 -- Skin Deep: Reverse racism is just racism -- An explanation of why reverse racism (in any of its many disguises) is a formula for perpetual conflict -- a conflict that will undermine both democracy and efforts to address the very real problem of racism.
ID# 16588 -- 16588 -- Capitalizing on the Weakening of Hamas and Hezbollah by Dennis Ross -- From Dennis Ross, a man who has devoted much of his professional life to making the two-state solution or reality, thoughts about the dramatic weakening of Hamas and Hezbollah changes things.
ID# 16590 -- 16590 -- A People’s History of Free Speech -- A valuable primer on the origins of and the reasoning behind free speech protections.
ID# 16591 -- 16591 -- Black Men Are Waiting for a Democratic Party That Delivers for Them -- Further reason to believe that political voting blocks are not as stable as is usually thought.
ID# 16593 -- 16593 -- The Great Immigration Public-Opinion Reversal -- Stunning statistics about the extremely rapid change that has occurred in public opinion regarding immigration to the US.
ID# 16596 -- 16596 -- A Masked Mob Outside a Lawmaker’s Home -- An argument that the way in which masked, anti-Israel protesters are attempting to intimidate a Jewish member of Congress is similar to the way the Ku Klux Klan tried to intimidate its opponents.
ID# 16599 -- 16599 -- Jack Smith Owes Us an Explanation -- A call for Jack Smith to explain why the way in which he is prosecuting Donald Trump should not be considered the kind of politically motivated prosecution that, in other contexts, would be seen as a threat to democracy.
ID# 16600 -- 16600 -- We Should Want Israel to Win -- An explanation of why many believe that a defeat for Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran would be good for the people of the Middle East (not just Israel).
ID# 16603 -- 16603 -- Guide to Peacemaking Using Islamic Principles -- From Ebrahim Rasool, from South Africa whose wisdom we have frequently cited, a guide to peacemaking from an Islamic perspective.
ID# 16605 -- 16605 -- We can be drawn to distrusting elections when "our side" loses -- The goal of this article is only to get people to examine how emotions can make their views more pessimistic and unreasonable,
ID# 16606 -- 16606 -- Finding Hope in the Environmental Crisis: Insights from Dr. Roger Gottlieb -- Gottlieb argues that one of the biggest threats to our planet isn’t just the damage itself -- it’s our collective avoidance and denial of the crisis.
ID# 16607 -- 16607 -- ICAN: International Civil Society Action Network -- ICAN forcuses on women's rights, peace, and security, promoting inclusive and sustainable peace globally. It connects women peacebuilders across countries to break their isolation and learn from each other’s experiences.
ID# 16608 -- 16608 -- U.C. Brekeley's Othering and Belonging Institute -- The Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley advances groundbreaking approaches to transforming structural marginalization and inequality. They are scholars, organizers, communicators, researchers, artists, and policymakers committed to building a world where all people belong.
ID# 16609 -- 16609 -- Many Americans Don’t Trust Legacy Media -- An episond of Starts With Us's "Debate without Hate: Elections 2024" in which Tara McGowan, a media entrepreneur talks about American's high level of distrust with traditional news media.
ID# 16610 -- 16610 -- Congress Ranked: Top Problem Solvers and Dividers -- Compiled by Starts with US, a weekly rundown of the top (and bottom) players in America's most popular full-contact sport -- politics.
ID# 16611 -- 16611 -- Palestinian Risks His Life for a Two-State Solution w/ Israel -- Meet Ezzeldeen Masri, a Palestinian-American who grew up in Gaza and now fights for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. As the Chief Field Officer for the OneVoice Movement, Ezz has dedicated his life to a two-state solution.
ID# 16612 -- 16612 -- Reality bytes: Kids confuse the real world with the screen world -- If we want to reduce screens’ negative impact on our children’s mental health, we need is a “hard reset” of their relationships with their "devices" to make sure that they are deeply aware of the difference between the real world and the screen world.
ID# 16613 -- 16613 -- 53 Roles That Make Democracy Work, and The People In Them — BCB #120 -- An external review and summary of the Burgess's Toda Peace Institute Paper on Massively Parallel Democracy Building,
ID# 16614 -- 16614 -- The Healthy Democracy Ecosystem Map -- The Healthy Democracy Ecosystem Map is the first comprehensive look at the universe of organizations promoting healthy democracy in America.
ID# 16615 -- 16615 -- U.S. Democracy Hub -- The most comprehensive, insightful, and accessible data platform for the U.S. nonprofit Democracy field providing visibility into what’s happening, who’s involved, and how funding is flowing in the parts of the U.S. Democracy Field that matter to you.
ID# 16616 -- 16616 -- Journal of Democracy Subject Guides -- This subject guide shares reading lists covering crucial contemporary subjects. The materials listed below can serve as no-cost or low-cost reading materials in undergraduate political science courses.
ID# 16617 -- 16617 -- Despite positive signs for Team Freedom, the game is far from over -- From the former Governor of Indiana, an update on what he sees as the status of today's freedom of speech conflicts.
ID# 16622 -- 16622 -- The Staggering Price You’re Paying for America’s Nuclear Makeover -- For those not taking international tensions seriously, a story about how quickly we are sliding into a new nuclear arms race.
ID# 16623 -- 16623 -- The Clean Energy Transition’s Voter Problem -- A report on recent research that documents the giant chasm that divides grassroots citizens from proponents of a clean energy transition -- something that we have to find better ways of addressing.
ID# 16633 -- 16633 -- Four Ways Ukraine’s Drone Innovations Are Changing Warfare -- We live in a time when extraordinarily rapid innovation is ever present. This article offers a case study of how the war in Ukraine is accelerating this process.
ID# 16636 -- 16636 -- Against steelmanning: It's usually not a good idea to try to make arguments look stronger than they really are. -- An essay on an interesting new concept, "steel man" arguments (the opposite of "strawman" arguments).
ID# 16638 -- 16638 -- When a Terror Group’s Brutality Backfires -- A hopeful argument that terrorism, as a political strategy, is ineffective and counterproductive (at least over the long run).
ID# 16639 -- 16639 -- War & Genocide in Modern Times -- A long and thought-provoking essay that provides a valuable framework for thinking through the complex tensions that exist between war and peace.
ID# 16640 -- 16640 -- What Worries You About the Other Side? -- A list of election planning and communication resources compiled by Nealin Parker from Common Ground USA and Kristin Hansen from the Civic Health Project to help organizations respond to election tensions more effectively.
ID# 16642 -- 16642 -- A Syllabus for Generalists -- For a society dominated by specialists who have trouble seeing the big picture, a syllabus for those who also want to be generalists. What would you add?
ID# 16643 -- 16643 -- Inside America’s Fastest-Growing Criminal Enterprise: Sex Trafficking -- As we focus on political violence, terrorism, and the possibility of civil and international war, a timely reminder that criminal violence is also a major threat to large numbers of people.
ID# 16646 -- 16646 -- The Case for Explorers’ Day -- A creative idea for moving beyond October's perennial conflict between Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day.
ID# 16648 -- 16648 -- America Is Suffering an Identity Crisis -- As the United States approaches its 250th birthday celebration, a thought-provoking article about our inability to decide what, if anything, is worth celebrating.
ID# 16649 -- 16649 -- This Is the House That Hezbollah Built -- More information about the ways in which Hezbollah has copied Hamas' civilian shield/sacrifice strategy.
ID# 16651 -- 16651 -- Von der Leyen’s authoritarian plot National democracies will be subordinate to her Commission -- A reminder that power grabs that exhibit authoritarian tendencies are not confined to populist movements and unstable societies. This surprising article looks at the issue with respect to the European Union.
ID# 16652 -- 16652 -- How Foreign Agents Make Jews and Israel Seem Evil -- An overview of the many ways in which hostile powers can exploit modern communication systems to advance their objectives. While this article focuses on Israel and Hamas the threat is much broader.
ID# 16653 -- 16653 -- Iran surges cyber-enabled influence operations in support of Hamas -- A shocking report from Microsoft detailing how it systems have been hijacked by Hamas as part of a global propaganda effort. (Something that other geopolitical rivals are also doubtless doing.)
ID# 16657 -- 16657 -- U.S. Wrestles With Aiding Allies and Maintaining Its Own Weapons Supply -- A worrying indicator of how rapidly the global security situation is deteriorating -- we are running out of munitions.
ID# 16658 -- 16658 -- World War III is already under way. Not that Harris or Trump has noticed. -- A warning that the United States' political hyper-polarization is undermining our ability to deter war (at a time when the early stages of World War III may already be upon us).
ID# 16664 -- 16664 -- There’s One Main Culprit if Donald Trump Wins -- A pre-mortem highlighting the many factors that have taken Donald Trump so close to victory (and a list of things that anyone who wants to heal society ought to start working hard to correct).
ID# 16666 -- 16666 -- The Path to Healing a Nation -- A review and summary of Terry Szuplat's 'Say It Well.' This is the first in a series of articles that FAIR is soliciting from those with ideas of about how to heal our society.
ID# 16668 -- 16668 -- It isn’t just about ‘1984’: Orwell’s essays powerfully resonate today -- A reminder of the many ways in which our future is imperiled by neglecting George Orwell's many insights.
ID# 16672 -- 16672 -- What Is the U.N. Resolution That Tried and Failed to Keep the Peace in Lebanon? -- A primer on what everyone ought to know about the ongoing war in Lebanon and the failed UN peacekeeping that led up to it.
ID# 16675 -- 16675 -- The Idiot’s Guide to Dominating American Politics -- A strategy that either the left or the right could employ to dominate US politics (and serve the interests of most citizens) along with reflections on why neither side is pursuing this opportunity.
ID# 16682 -- 16682 -- Sinwar’s Bloody Gambit Changed the Middle East—but Not as He Imagined -- Thanks to recently uncovered documents, we now have a pretty clear image of what Sinwar hoped to accomplish with his October 7 attack -- enough to make a judgment about whether or not it was successful.
ID# 16690 -- 16690 -- A Fashionable Madness: The Obsession with ‘Settler Colonialism’ -- An in-depth exploration of the meaning and implications of the relatively new and usually consequential concept of "settler colonialism."
ID# 16692 -- 16692 -- The spectre of insecurity -- Security is one of Maslow's most fundamental human needs (and a cornerstone of the human needs approached to peacebuilding). This article explores what happens when it's missing.
ID# 16695 -- 16695 -- The Racial Identity of Americans Is Rapidly Blurring. Politics Hasn’t Caught Up. -- An assessment of the contradictions between a political philosophy based on sharp racial differences and the reality of increasingly blurry racial distinctions.
ID# 16697 -- 16697 -- Why the Heck Isn’t She Running Away With This? -- For those wondering why the election is so close despite former President Trump's unpopularity, thoughts about things that Democrats are doing that drive supporters away.
ID# 16699 -- 16699 -- The Crisis of Trust -- From Francis Fukuyama, reflections on what has happened to the social fabric in the Trump era.
ID# 16703 -- 16703 -- Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini -- Anne Applebaum's controversial article about similarities between Donald Trump and the 21st century's most notorious authoritarians.
ID# 16704 -- 16704 -- Why Us vs. Them Is Not Such a Bad Way to See the World -- An exploration of the complex psychology behind in-group and out-group thinking with reflections on its advantages and disadvantages.
ID# 16705 -- 16705 -- Inside the Secretive $700 Million Ad-Testing Factory for Kamala Harris -- A somewhat disturbing look at the sophisticated system behind Kamala Harris' effort to craft a persuasive political messages (and a look at what political "debate" looks like at the level of mass communication).
ID# 16710 -- 16710 -- In a huge year for global elections, internet freedom took another hit -- A report on the many, often politically motivated, efforts to control the flow of information across the Internet (with reflections about which measures are and are not helpful).
ID# 16719 -- 16719 -- Newly-Minted Nobel Prize Winner James Robinson on How Societies Thrive -- A thought-provoking interview in which Robinson explains his efforts to understand the staggering complexity of modern social and economic systems.
ID# 16720 -- 16720 -- Deliberative Technology: Designing AI and Computational Democracy for Peacebuilding in Highly-Polarized Contexts -- A Toda report on artificial intelligence, digital democracy, and deliberative technologies that asks intriguing questions about the relationship between 21st-century technology and democratic governance.
ID# 16726 -- 16726 -- Did Trump say he would use the military against his opponents? If not, why did many say he did? -- Zach Elwood investigates the New York Times' reporting of Trump's reference to calling in the military, and found out that it was not in the context they suggested. Such mischaracterizations, he asserts, are dangerous.
ID# 16727 -- 16727 -- What Is Bretton Woods? The Contested Pasts and Potential Futures of International Economic Order -- The many competing views of the post-1945 international economic order each contribute to the debate over how the Bretton Woods negotiations should guide today’s proposed economic reforms.
ID# 16728 -- 16728 -- The Questionable Enlightenment -- Ashok Panikkar answers a student's question about the "Age of Enlightenment" and why it still is relevant and important today.
ID# 16729 -- 16729 -- Elections, Democratic Processes -- A collection of resources compiled by the TRUST Network on keeping elections fair, free, and safe.
ID# 16732 -- 16732 -- The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook -- A guide on how to interpret "breaking news" -- what to believe; what not, and how to find out.
ID# 16734 -- 16734 -- How Do We Get Through This? A New Podcast Mini-Series -- A three-part podcast mini-series showcases leaders from South Africa and Northern Ireland sharing lessons they learned when all hope seemed lost.
ID# 16735 -- 16735 -- Evolution Meets Foreign Policy -- Chip Hauss reports on a workshop examining how evolutionary theory can help American foreign policy makers deal with seemingly intractable problems, such as climate change, mass migration, economic inequality, and more.
ID# 16736 -- 16736 -- AI mediation tool may help reduce culture war rifts, say researchers -- An intriguing exploration of the possibility that AI could play a significant "mediation" role by helping those involved in conflict identify and articulate points of agreement.
ID# 16739 -- 16739 -- Emotional Intelligence for Peer Mediators -- An announcement of an upcoming webinar with Frederick Golder on November 8, 2024. In a note to us, Frederick observed that the "best way to get beyond intractability is to teach our children the benefits of constructive conflict resolution."
ID# 16740 -- 16740 -- How Young Leaders Are Helping Bridge Divides -- In this episode of 12 Geniuses, Layla Zaidane, CEO of Future Caucus, discusses the important role that young leaders can play in addressing political polarization and building a brighter, less divided future.
ID# 16741 -- 16741 -- Four Reasons You Should Distinguish Politicians from Their Voters -- By separating our feelings about politicians from our feelings about their voters, we can create more constructive political discussions — and strengthen personal relationships along the way.
ID# 16742 -- 16742 -- Conservative Environmentalist Talks About Polarized Politics and Simplistic Stereotypes -- In this episode of “Debate Without Hate: Elections 2024,” Benji Backer, shares insights about building cross-partisan consensus based on beliefs that don’t easily align with political stereotypes.
ID# 16746 -- 16746 -- The Constructive Cycle -- From Essential Partners, a guide for dialogue facilitators on how to help people have a constructive, though "tough," conversation. These guidelines work for all of our personal "tough" conversations too.
ID# 16752 -- 16752 -- The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons to the UN Security Council: Adapt or Die -- An argument that the majority of the world’s countries should give up on the UN and start planning for a replacement international organization more fit for its purpose of addressing and solving emerging challenges and threats.
ID# 16756 -- 16756 -- Toward a Fifth World Order by Gordon Brown & Mohamed A. El-Erian - Project Syndicate -- Amid rising tensions and the collapse of traditional sources of global stability, a proposal for a better way of organizing the international system.
ID# 16757 -- 16757 -- The Progressive Moment Is Over -- An article exploring the consequences of the progressive movement's failure to attract broad public support for its agenda.
ID# 16758 -- 16758 -- Trump’s Election Reversal Dreams Are Dead -- A somewhat hopeful account of the many steps that have been taken to close the loopholes that came to close to allowing President Trump to reverse the results of the 2020 election.
ID# 16759 -- 16759 -- There Are Four Anti-Trump Pathways We Failed to Take. There Is a Fifth. -- A comparative international look at ways in which democracies have sought to protect themselves from aspiring authoritarians (with lots of lessons for our hyper-polarized society).
ID# 16760 -- 16760 -- Can the United Nations Be Saved? -- A timely article addressing a critically important topic: ways of reforming the United Nations so that it could play a much more positive role in our increasingly troubled world.
ID# 16761 -- 16761 -- The Return of Total War: Understanding—and Preparing for—a New Era of Comprehensive Conflict -- Unfortunately, the massively parallel strategy for organizing complex societal systems is not limited to peacebuilding. This article explores what might be called the new era of massively parallel war.
ID# 16763 -- 16763 -- All Cultures are Not Equal -- A disturbing and controversial article about the conflict between Western, liberal, democratic cultures and Islam -- a conflict that has been and likely will continue to be a major flashpoint.
ID# 16764 -- 16764 -- The Problem With Solar -- In all problem-solving efforts, "the devil is in the details." This essay does an especially good job of explaining why , despite its extremely low cost, solar power can't meet our green energy needs.
ID# 16766 -- 16766 -- I Don’t Want to Live in a Monoculture, and Neither Do You -- An especially good explanation of why the left-and right-leaning orthodoxies created by hyper-polarization are so counterproductive and destructive.
ID# 16769 -- 16769 -- The Law of Group Polarization -- Going back to basics -- one of the foundational articles outlining the nature of polarization dynamics.
ID# 16774 -- 16774 -- Game-ender or game-changer? -- An examination of what Israel intended to achieve in retaliating for the recent Iranian missile attack (and reflections on whether or not they were successful).
ID# 16775 -- 16775 -- Life makes mistakes -- A look at the complexities of biological and social evolution and the surprising role of mistakes.
ID# 16776 -- 16776 -- Politics Without Winners: Can Either Party Build a Majority Coalition? -- A thought-provoking article the possibility of building a political coalition that gets beyond today's 50-50 split and actually earns the widespread support of the people.
ID# 16779 -- 16779 -- Three Questions That Probably Doom California’s Reparations Push -- Hard questions that proponents of reparations need to be prepared to answer.
ID# 16781 -- 16781 -- Four Lessons From Nine Years of Being ‘Never Trump’ -- From a long-standing Republican opponent of President Trump, reflections on the big things that he has learned from the experience
ID# 16783 -- 16783 -- Promising Revelations: Undoing the False Impressions of America’s Faithful -- This study, from More in Common, finds significant perception gaps relating to faith in America today. It examines how Americans are navigating the country’s deep polarization from the perspective of their faith identities.
ID# 16786 -- 16786 -- How Congress Unleashed the Presidency -- An interesting argument that many of our difficulties stem from the fact that we created a government that was too big for our democratic institutions to govern.
ID# 16788 -- 16788 -- How I Learned To Stop Criticizing Everything -- A philosophical argument about lifestyle choices that, if more widely followed, could help heal our divisions.
ID# 16789 -- 16789 -- America’s political realignment is catching Democrats flat-footed -- The pretty persuasive argument that politics is repolarizing in ways that divide the more from the less educated.
ID# 16791 -- 16791 -- The Death of American Exceptionalism -- Based in part on the examination of past periods of social conflict and distress, this hopeful article explains how politics is lagging behind positive changes that are taking place in our society.
ID# 16797 -- 16797 -- The Election Is Happening Too Soon -- Based in part on historical analogies, this hopeful essay argues that today's destructive politics is lagging behind ongoing and much more positive societal changes.
ID# 16799 -- 16799 -- Protect Democracy -- Protect Democracy is a cross-ideological nonprofit group that uses litigation, legislative and communications strategies, technology, research, and analysis to defend elections, rule of law, and fact-based debate.
ID# 16801 -- 16801 -- The UN’s New Pact for the Future: A Milestone That Can Set a Path for Change -- The UN Pact for the Future, though imperfect, can serve as a stepping stone for even more ambitious, high-impact improvements within the UN system.
ID# 16805 -- 16805 -- Protecting civic space around the world -- American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) published an interview, Protecting Civic Space Around the World, with Kerri Kennedy, Associate General Secretary for International Programs at AFSC.
ID# 16806 -- 16806 -- How South Africa Avoided Civil War and Built a Democracy -- The story of South Africa’s transition provides powerful lessons that Americans can apply to find common ground, re-humanize the “other,” and safeguard democracy.
ID# 16807 -- 16807 -- Violence Prevention: Understanding the Quiet but Critical Role of ‘Civic Diplomats’ -- This short guidance note highlights the importance of secret and confidential actions and initiatives in preventing political violence and overcoming situations of conflict and crisis.
ID# 16808 -- 16808 -- If You Can Imitate Them, Maybe You Can Understand Them — BCB #122 -- Sun Tzu famously said that in order to win a battle you need to know yourself and know your enemy; we could say the same about making peace.
ID# 16810 -- 16810 -- Announcing Version 10 of the AllSides Media Bias Chart! -- Featuring six new sources and strengthened ratings for 10 outlets ahead of the 2024 presidential election
ID# 16811 -- 16811 -- Is this the most aligned we've seen Democrats and Republicans on any issue? -- More in Common studied American attitudes toward Generative Artificial Intelligence, a major technological development poised to profoundly impact our psychology, society, and politics. Dem's and Rep's attitudes towards Gen AI are very similar.
ID# 16812 -- 16812 -- Is There Really a Plot to Use Migrants to Turn America Blue? -- A well-documented and thorough inquiry into the politics of immigration -- motivations, strategies, and implications.
ID# 16820 -- 16820 -- We’ve Just Had a Glimpse of the World to Come -- An essay exploring the possibility that the recent meeting of the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, and China might offer a preview of what a much more authoritarian world order might look like.
ID# 16825 -- 16825 -- Obama and the Wrong Side of History -- An essay that asks and all-important question, does the arc of history bendoward justice?
ID# 16826 -- 16826 -- The Left Wants to Forget Its Mistakes. That Is a Very Dangerous Plan. -- The sensible argument that the left ought to remember and learn from (rather than forget) the things that they have promoted the turned out to be bad ideas. (Advice for the right as well.)
ID# 16827 -- 16827 -- It’s Not Too Early to Begin the Reckoning -- An early compilation of things that social scientists think that they have learned from this year's election.
ID# 16828 -- 16828 -- Democrats Stump for Trump -- As they demonize the former president, a troubling story about how Democrats are also willing to promote Trump and his supporters in cases where they find it politically useful.
ID# 16831 -- 16831 -- From Concession Speeches to Constructive Dialogue -- An argument that electoral winners ought to temper their ambitions and provide losers with assurances that they will have a meaningful voice in shaping the victor's agenda.
ID# 16838 -- 16838 -- How Gender Ideology Captured the State Department -- An exposé, with lots of links, documenting the way in which the Biden administration's "whole of government" effort to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion has reshaped the State Department
ID# 16843 -- 16843 -- Abigail Shrier: The Kindergarten Intifada -- From California, a must-read story about the way in which educational institutions are driving a terrifying rise in hate-filled antisemitism.
ID# 16846 -- 16846 -- Niall Ferguson: After the Treason of the Intellectuals" on YouTube -- An argument that the progressive monoculture that has taken over higher education and intellectual life has abandoned the honest pursuit of truth.
ID# 16851 -- 16851 -- There Is a Silver Lining in This Tense Election Year -- As the saying goes, "things that can't go on like this, don't." Thoughts about the possibility that hyper-polarization has reached the point where people recognize that they have no choice but to do something about it.
ID# 16857 -- 16857 -- Bipartisanship Reinvigorated -- Ideas for moving beyond today's hyper-polarization and figuring out how to really make bipartisanship work
ID# 16858 -- 16858 -- The Danger Is Greater Than in 2020. Be Prepared. -- In uncertain times it makes sense to develop contingency plans for dealing with the many things that could go wrong.
ID# 16860 -- 16860 -- Protection and Resilience Strategies for Nonviolent Activists -- From the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies, a report on the nature of threats nonviolent activists face, and how they can be resisted or mitigated.
ID# 16861 -- 16861 -- Lessons from Around the World: Engaging ‘Pillars of Support’ to Uphold and Expand Democracy -- From Maria Stephan of the Horizons Project, a review of the strategies that politicians, business leaders, religious leaders, trade unions, sports figures, and others have used to fight authoritarianism outside the U.S.
ID# 16862 -- 16862 -- The Science of Violent vs. Non-Violent Resistance -- Addressing calls for violent resistance to Israel and Jews on his campus, Peter Coleman points to research by Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth that show that nonviolence is about twice as likely to succeed as violence.
ID# 16864 -- 16864 -- Case Study Panel: America’s Moment of Truth (Again) -- During the annual Athens Democracy Forum hosted by the Democracy and Culture Foundation and the New York Times, this international panel of journalists, academics and activists reflects on the coming U.S. election.
ID# 16866 -- 16866 -- Radical Unity's Inaugural Year Concludes in Arizona and Georgia -- A report from the Mediators Foundation on how the arts can be used to unite people across deep divides.
ID# 16867 -- 16867 -- Can We Trust Tech Giants to Rebuild Society? -- David Beckemeyer examines the dreams of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel on how they want to reshape society. Beckemeyer argues that they seek a "digital, decentralized world where institutions like government and law are relics of the past."
ID# 16868 -- 16868 -- USIP Newsletters -- The United States Institute for Peace sends out weekly and monthly newsletters about it work, important events and resources from their education department. Sign up here.
ID# 16871 -- 16871 -- How Do We Get Through This? | Episode 2: Great Hatred and Little Room: Building Peace in Northern Ireland -- A second podcast from Beyond Conflict, this one looks at what the U.S. can learn from the Northern Ireland peace process.
ID# 16872 -- 16872 -- Can Dignity Prevail in America’s Polarized Landscape? -- From More in Common, thoughts about the critical importance of treating one another with dignity and respect and strategies for encouraging such behavior.
ID# 16873 -- 16873 -- Whatever Happens, Love Thy Neighbor -- A plea for voters to remember, in the aftermath of the election, that those who vote the other way aren't evil caricatures, they are the decent folks that you see every day.
ID# 16874 -- 16874 -- In Shift From 2020, Identity Politics Loses Its Grip on the Country -- Further information about the apparent decline in the influence of "woke" political ideas.
ID# 16878 -- 16878 -- Efforts to combat disinformation in retreat as voters head to the polls -- An update on struggle between efforts to combat the disinformation being circulated by those who are truly acting in bad faith and efforts to combat those who unfairly target legitimate criticism as disinformation.
ID# 16880 -- 16880 -- Bill Clinton speech in Michigan about Israel -- From Bill Clinton, a man who tried as hard as anyone to make the two-state solution a reality, a talk, given in Michigan just before the election, outlining his views on the Mideast crisis.
ID# 16884 -- 16884 -- How Autocracy Prevailed in Tunisia: And Why Any Future Democratic Renewal Will Depend on an Entirely New Movement -- A post-mortem on the failure of Tunisia's Arab Spring revolution -- a revolution that, at the time, seemed like the one most likely to succeed.
ID# 16888 -- 16888 -- Five Things You Can Do to Make America a Better Place Tomorrow (No Matter Who Wins) -- For those looking for concrete, positive steps that they can take in the current environment, five ideas.
ID# 16892 -- 16892 -- How Red and Blue America Shop, Eat and Live -- A clever new way of looking at differences in the way in which polarization is reflected in our day-to-day lives. This statistical analysis shows, for hundreds of businesses, which ones operate in Republican and Democratic areas.
ID# 16895 -- 16895 -- The Obama Machine -- An explanation of the many ways in which today's Democratic politics seems to resemble the political machines of the past. (And, a look at Obama's ties to the Daley machine in Chicago).
ID# 16897 -- 16897 -- The Art of the Bullshitter -- Yet another attempt to understand the effectiveness of President Trump's rhetorical "weave" and its loose relationship with objective facts.
ID# 16898 -- 16898 -- Misinformation: A Flawed Concept -- Insights into the extraordinarily complex problem of misinformation -- how to identify it, how to combat it, and how to keep it from becoming its own brand of misinformation.
ID# 16906 -- 16906 -- Lesson 1: Be willing to drive the bus into a wall -- For those supportive of the work of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, an article describing how they do what they do.
ID# 16916 -- 16916 -- How Progressivism Turned off Voters -- The Better Conflict Bulletin agrees that bold ideas are necessary for social change. Yet there's no substitute for knowing the people you claim to be serving.
ID# 16917 -- 16917 -- Can Dignity Prevail in America’s Polarized Landscape? -- More In Common writes that though their work with UNITE and their Dignity Index, they hope to encourage a cultural shift towards noticing and elevating dignity in political discourse.
ID# 16918 -- 16918 -- Ready for the Rollercoaster Again? America’s Strange Relationship with Calm -- David Beckemeyer argues that Biden gave us calm. Yet now Americans seem to hunger for drama and disruption again.
ID# 16929 -- 16929 -- Sometimes when I get mad, when I get really mad, sometimes I write a poem -- A poem by one of our colleagues on the U.S. election and what comes next.
ID# 16932 -- 16932 -- To avoid destruction, we must own our role in political polarization -- Zach Elwood argues that both sides have contributed to political polarization, though in different ways and for different reasons. We must recognize that, and recognize the legitimacy of the other side's concerns.
ID# 16933 -- 16933 -- How To Win and Lose an Election -- Published on election day, Jonathan Stray points out that no matter what happens, we will all have new responsibilities tonight.
ID# 16934 -- 16934 -- What issues are most important to the Hidden Tribes this election? -- A comparison of concerns of progressive activists, devoted conservatives, and the "exhausted majority." The one commonality: high cost of living and inflation.
ID# 16951 -- 16951 -- Four THB Takeaways from the Incredible 2024 US Election -- Another set of thoughtful, and somewhat different, reflections on the election with one stunning map highlighting just how much politics has changed.
ID# 16955 -- 16955 -- Why Trump’s Victory Is, For Millions Of Us, Cathartic -- A very personal reaction to Trump's election from someone who used to be closely aligned with the left but who found himself canceled for raising what he regards as perfectly legitimate criticisms.
ID# 16962 -- 16962 -- Introducing the Peace Impact Calculator: A Comprehensive Tool for Measuring Social Impact -- A tool developed as a complement to the Peace Impact Framework provides a way for organizations and individuals to assess and report outcomes of their projects in a structured and accessible manner.
ID# 16964 -- 16964 -- Francis Fukuyama on Trump 47 -- From Francis Fukuyama, his analysis of the election.
ID# 16971 -- 16971 -- Trump has big plans for ‘Day 1’ on immigration, energy and more -- Just as Biden's selection ushered in big changes in US society, Trump promises to do the same. This article reviews his intentions.
ID# 16974 -- 16974 -- Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now? -- One of the very best articles that we've seen on the election. If you can only read a few, read this one.
ID# 16975 -- 16975 -- 10 Reasons You Didn't See This Coming -- A succinct, must-read article that explains, with exceptional clarity, why so many Democrats were blindsided by the election's result.
ID# 16976 -- 16976 -- We Don’t Have Time to Waste Time in Despair -- For those opposed to the things that President-elect Trump has promised to do, thoughts about how they can work within the system to effectively oppose such things.
ID# 16977 -- 16977 -- The Shattering of the Democratic Coalition -- An essay explaining why the winning electoral coalition that Democrats thought that they had is no longer viable.
ID# 16979 -- 16979 -- Election 2024: The illusion of division hits a tipping point -- After so much nervous anticipation about the possibility of political violence following the election, reflections on why that didn't happen (and the possibility that we are not as bitterly divided as we think we are).
ID# 16983 -- 16983 -- AllSides Story of the Week: Trump Elected President -- AllSides compares the right's and left's reaction to the U.S. Presidential election.
ID# 16985 -- 16985 -- How Science Must Change -- For a time when science is so widely distrusted, concrete suggestions about how science might re-earn the public's trust.
ID# 16986 -- 16986 -- Why America Stopped Winning Wars -- For an era in which so many wars never seem end, a controversial and provocative argument for taking the steps needed to truly win.
ID# 16987 -- 16987 -- Why Study History? -- A timeless argument worth repeating often -- those who fail to understand history are condemned to repeat it.
ID# 16989 -- 16989 -- Treat Trump Like a Normal President -- After 8 years of treating Trump as an extraordinary threat that cannot be challenged by ordinary means, an argument for doing just that -- trust the system and work within the process.
ID# 16991 -- 16991 -- Trump to Renew ‘Maximum Pressure’ Campaign Against Iran -- Elections do have consequences -- sometimes very big ones. This article looks at the effect of the Biden/Trump foreign policy switchover on the wars raging in the Middle East.
ID# 16992 -- 16992 -- Trump’s Win Cemented It: New Media Is Leaving the Old Guard Behind -- A reminder that we can't understand political conflict without understanding the constantly changing nature of the system that communicates political ideas.
ID# 16996 -- 16996 -- Lessons for Kamala Harris - 1 -- The first of three essays by Ashok Panikkar on the Democratic loss. Here he explains what the elite of the cosmopolitan world don't understand about democracy (or, as he says, life on planet Earth.)
ID# 16997 -- 16997 -- Spread the word: Americans do not want political violence -- An article by James Coan of More Like US, arguing that Americans dramatically overestimate the share of people in the other political party who support politically motivated violence.
ID# 16998 -- 16998 -- Millions of Movers Reveal American Polarization in Action -- A statistical look, with lots of revealing graphics, at the ways in which Americans are self segregating based on political beliefs.
ID# 16999 -- 16999 -- Russia’s Election Meddling: Farce After Tragedy -- An update on Russia's muddled and, hopefully, not very effective efforts to influence the election.
ID# 17001 -- 17001 -- It’s Time to Resist the Resistance -- As Democrats struggle to decide how to respond to the Trump presidency, an argument against replaying the resistance strategy used during his first term.
ID# 17002 -- 17002 -- The Age of the Pogrom Returns -- From Bret Stephens of the New York Times, one of the scariest sentences I've ever read: "My advice to Europe’s besieged Jewish communities: Remember what Kishinev foreshadowed — and please get out while you still can."
ID# 17004 -- 17004 -- The Book That Predicted the 2024 Election -- An interview with the author of "Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP" -- a book that was ahead of its time in understanding the changing political landscape.
ID# 17005 -- 17005 -- Democrats Need Working-Class Voters. Maybe Now They’ll Act Like It -- From Nicholas Kristof, reflections on the relationship between the struggles of his working class childhood friends and the election's outcome.
ID# 17006 -- 17006 -- We’re About to Find Out Who Trump’s Victory Belongs To -- For the case of Donald Trump, an essay exploring the election day transition from candidate appeals for constituent support to constituent appeals for support from now elected candidates.
ID# 17007 -- 17007 -- The Elites Had It Coming -- From Thomas Frank (the man who wrote "What's the matter with Kansas?") helpful insights for those struggling to understand Trump's success.
ID# 17008 -- 17008 -- Democrats and the Case of Mistaken Identity Politics -- Now that the election-related taboo against Democratic self-criticism has been lifted, thoughtful ideas about why identity-based politics was doomed to failure.
ID# 17009 -- 17009 -- What now? With the election behind us, here are five ways forward -- From the Foundation against Intolerance and Racism, concrete ideas for constructively navigating the post-election period.
ID# 17011 -- 17011 -- Book Review: The Road to Wigan Pier -- For those who wondered what Orwell would think about contemporary events, a book about how he approached very similar challenges in his time.
ID# 17015 -- 17015 -- Democrats Need To Realize It’s Not Always Easy To Be a Man -- Amid all of the concern about obstacles faced by women and girls, an argument for also attending to the challenges facing men and boys.
ID# 17016 -- 17016 -- Answering all of your biggest post-election questions. -- From Tangle, an organization really committed to telling both sides of the story, questions and answers about the election.
ID# 17017 -- 17017 -- Last Night’s Pogrom in Amsterdam -- A harrowing account of the recent attack on Israeli soccer fans -- an attack that in many ways emulates the horrific anti-Jewish pogroms of the past.
ID# 17018 -- 17018 -- More Reflections from "Gail," The Israeli Peacebuilder Who Also Serves in the IDF Active Reserves -- And What that Says for U.S. Peacebuilding -- within the U.S. -- Excerpts from an email exchange between Heidi Burgess and one of her former students, who is now a peacebuilder in an Israeli/Palestinian peacebuilding organization, while also serving in the IDF reserves.
ID# 17018 -- 17018 -- More Reflections from "Gail," The Israeli Peacebuilder Who Also Serves in the IDF Active Reserves -- And What that Says for U.S. Peacebuilding -- within the U.S. -- Excerpts from an email exchange between Heidi Burgess and one of her former students, who is now a peacebuilder in an Israeli/Palestinian peacebuilding organization, while also serving in the IDF reserves.
ID# 17019 -- 17019 -- Daniel Stid: The Meaning of Democracy in Nine Words -- Daniel Stid writes about one definition of democracy -- that it is a system in which one party loses elections, but is able and wants to "come back and play again."
ID# 17021 -- 17021 -- Kristin Hansen: As America’s political “world series” wraps up, let’s focus on the long game + Richard Harwood Concurring Statement -- Kristin Hansen of the Civic Health Project reflects on where we need to move to strengthen our civic health after the election; Richard Harwood and the Burgesses concur and add a few more thoughts about how to create a new "civic path."
ID# 17022 -- 17022 -- Do You Want the U.S. Government to Work? Read This! And Then Do This! -- A description of the House Administration's Subcommittee on Modernization, and its predecessor, the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, and a plea for everyone to lobby for its continuation in the incoming Congress.
ID# 17024 -- 17024 -- Ariel Markose, the Chief Strategy Officer of Amal-Tikva, Talks About How To Do Peacebuilding in Wartime -- Peacebuilding looks different in the context of war, but it can (and must) be done, explains Ariel Markose, CEO of a leading Israeli-Palestinian NGO. And, she explains, it is being done, despite tremendous obstacles.
ID# 17024 -- 17024 -- Ariel Markose, the Chief Strategy Officer of Amal-Tikva, Talks About How To Do Peacebuilding in Wartime -- Peacebuilding looks different in the context of war, but it can (and must) be done, explains Ariel Markose, CEO of a leading Israeli-Palestinian NGO. And, she explains, it is being done, despite tremendous obstacles.
ID# 17026 -- 17026 -- Marc Wong on How We Can Bring Out the Best in Others -- and Ourselves -- Road rage is much like ideological rage. We don't accept the former; why do we accept the latter?
ID# 17027 -- 17027 -- The US in 2024: An Election That Worked and a Democracy That Doesn't -- U.S. polarization and political dysfunction is only going to worsen until the two parties realize that the problem isn't "the other," but rather the way we refuse to tolerate, compromise and/or work collaboratively with with "the other."
ID# 17027 -- 17027 -- The US in 2024: An Election That Worked and a Democracy That Doesn't -- U.S. polarization and political dysfunction is only going to worsen until the two parties realize that the problem isn't "the other," but rather the way we refuse to tolerate, compromise and/or work collaboratively with with "the other."
ID# 17028 -- 17028 -- Lou Kriesberg: Applying the Constructive Conflict approach to the American Right-Wing Populism Phenomenon -- Lou Kriesberg explores "what next" for progressives in the United States following Trump's election, arguing that two responses are necessary: resistance, and strengthening democracy.
ID# 17030 -- 17030 -- A Reasonable Peace: Can Critical Thinking Save the Field of Peacebuilding? -- Ashok Panikkar, Heidi and Guy Burgess (with facilitation from Merrick Hoben) talk about why peacebuilding is failing in much of the world, and how the use of critical thinking explains why and what might be done to be more successful.
ID# 17031 -- 17031 -- Representative Derek Kilmer on the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress and De-polarization -- Guy and Heidi Burgess talked with Rep. Derek Kilmer on how to break down polarization in Congress and in society in order to actually solve problems collaboratively. There is much to learn and copy here!
ID# 17058 -- 17058 -- Peter Thiel and the Triumph of the Counter-Elites -- A look at the wealthy elites who are now part of the anti-elites.
ID# 17060 -- 17060 -- How the Ivy League Broke America -- From David Brooks, an analysis of why the rise of the meritocratic elite was accompanied by a simultaneous collapse in the public's trust in its educated elite and the institutions in which they work.
ID# 17061 -- 17061 -- Farewell to the “Rising American Electorate” -- A postmortem on the theory that the changing demographics of the electorate would lead to Trump's defeat.
ID# 17063 -- 17063 -- The New Class Politics -- An argument that our turbulent politics is a whole lot easier to understand when one focuses on class-based differences.
ID# 17064 -- 17064 -- Global Existential Risks -- A scientific look at the nature of existential, societal risk and reassuring news that climate change doesn't qualify (other things do, unfortunately).
ID# 17065 -- 17065 -- Should You Even Have Kids? -- Looking back on wonders of a lifetime spent parenting and grandparenting, we find it incredibly sad that so many young people are deciding not to have kids.
ID# 17066 -- 17066 -- The Democrats Are the HR Department of Political Parties -- An examination of the ways in which the Democratic Party followed its own advice with respect to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
ID# 17068 -- 17068 -- The End of the Obama Coalition -- A detailed look at the strengths (and now weaknesses) of the Obama coalition that ruled the United States for 12 of the last 16 years.
ID# 17070 -- 17070 -- Why America Became the Great Satan -- A the evolution of Iran's antipathy toward the United States and Israel and an examination of the failure of diplomatic efforts to build a more positive relationship.
ID# 17071 -- 17071 -- Would this be acceptable if Jews were not the victims? -- An illustration of a good way to identify discriminatory behavior -- ask if it would be okay to treat other groups in the same way.
ID# 17073 -- 17073 -- How Persuasion Will Cover the Trump Presidency -- From Persuasion, their thoughts on how the media might most constructively cover the President Elect.
ID# 17074 -- 17074 -- Obama Isn’t Going Anywhere -- A look at the outsized role that President Obama continues to play in Democratic politics.
ID# 17076 -- 17076 -- Trump Faces a Different World in Term Two -- A look back at Trump's 1st term and reflections of how different things are today.
ID# 17077 -- 17077 -- Trump’s Mass Deportation Promise -- A semi-friendly and semi-critical look at Trump's mass deportation plans that highlights ways in which things could go both right and wrong.
ID# 17079 -- 17079 -- After War in Gaza, Rivals Hamas and Fatah Don’t Plan to Be in Charge -- Hopeful news that a post-war system for governing Gaza may be emerging -- a system that may free Palestinians from the terror of Hamas and the corruption of the Palestinian Authority.
ID# 17083 -- 17083 -- How do countries measure immigration, and how accurate is this data? -- Hard data for those who want a more reliable basis for evaluating the claims made by the various sides of the immigration conflict.
ID# 17087 -- 17087 -- Contextualized and Decontextualized: Israel’s Fight for Truth -- An update on the changing ways in which people try to understand the context of Israel's ongoing wars.
ID# 17089 -- 17089 -- The Media’s Identity Crisis -- Food for thought as we try to come to terms with the rapidly changing nature of the role that different kinds of media play in spreading information throughout our society.
ID# 17092 -- 17092 -- Biological warfare is a real threat. How can we deter it? -- A reminder that biological warfare deserves a prominent place at the top of our mega-worry list -- a worry that really ought to be getting a lot more attention.
ID# 17093 -- 17093 -- The Election Gender Gap Was Expected to Be Huge but Was Unremarkable -- Amid all the articles highlighting the political divide between men and women, surprising news that the spread between male and female voting patterns was surprisingly small.
ID# 17096 -- 17096 -- Why Mind Viruses Are Real -- A look at the complex psychological and social dynamics that spread ideas (many of them bad) throughout society.
ID# 17101 -- 17101 -- Equity Everywhere: 500 Ways the Biden-Harris Administration Infused DEI Into the Federal Government -- The critical, but informative, report on exactly what the Biden administration did as part of its "whole of government" effort to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.
ID# 17103 -- 17103 -- Endless compassion -- A hopeful argument that the voters' rejection of the orthodoxies of the political left will open the door to a more compassionate future -- a future that benefits everyone.
ID# 17106 -- 17106 -- The Democratic Blind Spot That Wrecked 2024 -- An unusual and quite perceptive article describing how Democrats were lulled into a false sense of security.
ID# 17108 -- 17108 -- From Terror Tunnels to Suicide Drones -- An examination of some of the ways in which the ongoing wars in the Middle East are driving a rapid cycle of both offensive and defensive innovation -- a cycle that is transforming the nature of war for everyone.
ID# 17120 -- 17120 -- Implicit Bias: A Zombie Theory That Needs to Finally Die -- A critical look at the theory and history behind the concept of implicit bias.
ID# 17122 -- 17122 -- Faith in Policy: Right-sizing religious actors’ role in democratic processes -- This brief from Search for Common Ground takes a nuanced approach to the role of religious actors in civic space, highlighting some of the ways in which their positive impact has been promoted and more negative influences mitigated.
ID# 17123 -- 17123 -- War and peace, and the political (dis-)order -- A podcast on political strategy through the ages from Clausewitz to Fukuyama from Conflict Transformation, Peacebuilding and Security.
ID# 17124 -- 17124 -- Working on the Ground with Communities -- From the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, case examples of how it is possible to build more equitable, fair, just, inclusive and hopeful paths forward.
ID# 17125 -- 17125 -- PeaceCon 2024 Videos -- These 38 videos show some of the more interesting and important sessions from this year's meeting of the Alliance for Peacebuilding.
ID# 17126 -- 17126 -- From Ashes to Empathy: Navigating the Path to Peace in a World Divided by Conflict -- From the International Center for Religion & Diplomacy, a blog arguing religious peacemakers can be vital agents of change.
ID# 17127 -- 17127 -- International Center for Religion and Diplomacy (ICRD) -- Established in 1998 by Dr. Douglas Johnston, the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy (ICRD) was founded to bridge religious considerations with global peacebuilding policy and practice.
ID# 17128 -- 17128 -- Great Hatred and Little Room: Building Peace in Northern Ireland -- A podcast from Beyond Conflict, about deeply segregated societies where politics are personal and violence is intimate. Like Americans today, the guests and their communities had to navigate living together in an atmosphere of deep mistrust.
ID# 17129 -- 17129 -- In conversation: The essential role of women in peacebuilding -- From Conciliation Resources, a video with Rosa Emilia Salamanca, Executive Director of the Corporación de Investigación y Acción Social y Económica (CIASE) in Colombia about the role of women in peacebuilding.
ID# 17130 -- 17130 -- Finding Opportunity in Closing Civil Spaces -- At the 9th International Conference on Shrinking Civic Space in Asia, hosted by Asia Center in Bangkok, Counterpart conducted a session on strategies for civil society organizations to use in constricted civic spaces.
ID# 17131 -- 17131 -- The US Elections—A Reason for Anxiety or an Opportunity for Hope and Growth? -- International Center for Religion and Diplomacy published an article detailing how faith communities can play a role in reducing toxic polarization and rehumanizing perceived adversaries around the U.S. elections.
ID# 17133 -- 17133 -- News Literacy in America -- A survey of teen information attitudes, habits and skills on media and the news finds that teens want more media literacy instruction, and more than half of those surveyed believe the press does more to harm democracy than protect it.
ID# 17134 -- 17134 -- Which Way Forward for Red and Blue? -- Jonathan Stray has assembled an overview of left and right leaning pundits' views on the election, concluding that "when you shade each state based on 2024 election results, the country looks pretty purple."
ID# 17135 -- 17135 -- 6 Reasons Why Understanding Each Other Is More Important Than Ever -- Trying to understand the other side is more important now than ever, says Starts with US. They explain why here.
ID# 17136 -- 17136 -- The problem with blind allegiance to a party. -- Sharon McMahon, Movement Partner and “America’s Government Teacher,” appeared on the podcast Armchair Expert.
ID# 17138 -- 17138 -- Outlooks on Trump’s election -- Framechange is a non-partisan publication aimed at helping people understand different perspectives on news and events. Read their compilation of views about Trump’s election.
ID# 17139 -- 17139 -- 4 Myths About America’s Toxic Polarization Problem -- You can think, “My political opponents are worse,” and still help depolarization. Learn how to respond when someone objects to reducing political toxicity. Read this piece and share it when you see the opportunity
ID# 17141 -- 17141 -- A Post-Election Path Forward -- Jacob Borenstein argues that we can heal our country though local action. We should start, he says, by listening to community needs and aspirations.
ID# 17142 -- 17142 -- Building Resilient Communities -- Can we coexist as a technologically advanced society without eroding the innate human instincts that enable us to harmoniously weave societies, thereby allowing life to fulfill its magnificent evolutionary destiny?
ID# 17143 -- 17143 -- Israel's Changing War -- From an Israeli perspective, thoughtful reflections on how the war has changed over the last year.
ID# 17144 -- 17144 -- The U.S. Marines’ biggest fight right now is internal -- An important reminder that what the military spends its money on is as important as how much it spends. Our security really does depend on the wisdom of the choices now being made.
ID# 17145 -- 17145 -- Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris voters -- A look at an example of the deceptive way in which the Republican Party practices hardball politics and, more generally, the way real world politics deviates from the democratic ideal.
ID# 17146 -- 17146 -- Why We Got It So Wrong -- A must-read exploration of the origins of our current predicament and thoughts about the big thing we need to do to get out of it.
ID# 17148 -- 17148 -- The New Driving Force of Identity Politics Is Class, Not Race -- An argument that the United States' "identity politics" is in the process of refocusing itself around class and away from race.
ID# 17149 -- 17149 -- How to Be a Writer in the Second Age of Trump -- Thoughtful insights from a writer who has been trying to figure out how he might best be able to contribute to the great national conversation that is going to accompany Trump's 2nd term.
ID# 17150 -- 17150 -- Chuck Hagel: Why I’m Worried About Our Military -- From a former Secretary of Defense, thoughtful reflections on on the dangers facing the military and the country (and advice for our incoming president).
ID# 17151 -- 17151 -- Why deportations actually dropped in Trump’s first term -- A surprising factoid that challenges the conventional wisdom -- deportations dropped under Trump (as compared with the Obama years).
ID# 17153 -- 17153 -- Trump Has Put an End to an Era. The Future Is Up for Grabs. -- A reminder that, while the recent election may have been a major break with the past, the future that it portends is fraught with uncertainty.
ID# 17155 -- 17155 -- Meet the Women with AI Boyfriends -- A report on just how far men and women have become estranged from one another.
ID# 17156 -- 17156 -- Stories the Media Purposely Ignore About Israel -- A review of some of the stories about Israel and the ongoing wars that mainstream media is largely missing.
ID# 17157 -- 17157 -- Dear Democrats, I Tried To Warn You -- A particularly perceptive "I told you so" article highlighting lost opportunities associated with the Democrat's reluctance to seriously consider the views of its critics.
ID# 17158 -- 17158 -- Antisemitism in America: My Campus Tour -- A report on a tour of US college campuses to talk about the ongoing wars in the Middle East (and related increases in antisemitic behavior).
ID# 17160 -- 17160 -- Liberalism is the rebellion now -- Concern that classic liberal ideals like individual freedom and dignity are increasingly being marginalized.
ID# 17161 -- 17161 -- A Reckoning for the Pro-Democracy Community -- From a big supporter of pro-democracy efforts, real concern about the degree to which the movement is dominated by progressives (with very little conservative involvement).
ID# 17163 -- 17163 -- Governors Launch Initiative to Protect American Democracy -- From Colorado Gov. Polis information about the Governors Initiative to Protect American Democracy.
ID# 17165 -- 17165 -- T-Mobile Hacked in Massive Chinese Breach of Telecom Networks -- Another peek at the scale of the ongoing "hybrid" war between the US and China.
ID# 17166 -- 17166 -- What Does HUD Have to Show for the Trillions It’s Spent? -- Hard questions about whether or not the Department of Urban Development has produced positive results commensurate with the public's investment (and a reminder of the importance of quality program evaluation).
ID# 17167 -- 17167 -- The Musk-Ramaswamy Project Could Be Trump’s Best Idea -- From the Wall Street Journal, an explanation of why many people think that the proposed Department of Government Efficiency is actually a good idea.
ID# 17169 -- 17169 -- A Powerful AI Breakthrough Is About to Transform the World -- A story about recent developments in artificial intelligence technology that may be about to make it vastly smarter.
ID# 17171 -- 17171 -- How to Handle Kennedy as America’s Top Health Official -- An interesting essay written by a health care professional looking for a constructive way to engage with Robert Kennedy -- Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
ID# 17172 -- 17172 -- When Will Democrats Learn to Say No? -- An argument that the key to building a super majority capable of defusing the United States' 50/50 political split lies in finding a way to say no to those on the political extremes.
ID# 17173 -- 17173 -- Beware the Trifecta: History Shows Full Control of Government Is Fleeting -- A reassuring history for those worried about the possibility that Republican control of Congress may give President Elect Trump a long-term lock on power.
ID# 17174 -- 17174 -- Trump’s recess appointments gambit? A power grab hiding in plain sight. -- A detailed look at one of the strategies that President Elect Trump intends to use to expand Presidential power by bypassing one of the key Constitutional "checks and balances."
ID# 17175 -- 17175 -- How Resilient Is the Emerging Trump Coalition? -- A compilation (with lots of links) of what leading political scientists are saying about the likelihood that Donald Trump will be able to hold his political coalition together.
ID# 17182 -- 17182 -- Is Wokeness on Big Power Grab? -- Reflections on the degree to which the progressive left is motivated by a self-serving quest for political power (and not social justice in the abstract, universal sense of the term).
ID# 17184 -- 17184 -- Making Government Efficient Again -- An example of the kind of constructive reform proposals needed to correct institutional shortcomings while, at the same time, preserving the benefits of those same institutions.
ID# 17190 -- 17190 -- America’s new caste system: The education gap has dented democracy -- An argument that the most important political divide is not race or class -- its education.
ID# 17191 -- 17191 -- The Centre Must Rise -- Another call for a badly needed political movement that charts a middle ground between the extremes of the left and the right.
ID# 17204 -- 17204 -- America’s Approach to Its Allies Is Backward -- For a time of rapidly increasing geopolitical tensions, reflections on the value of alliances and the steps that must be taken to keep those alliances strong.
ID# 17208 -- 17208 -- Throw the Groups Under the Bus! -- For Democrats (and anyone opposed to Trump's brand of politics), an statistical analysis of the ways in which Democrats have lost the support of working-class voters (and what to do about it).
ID# 17212 -- 17212 -- The real antidote to political bitterness -- An article describing the importance of "civic friendship" with detailed ideas about how best to cultivate it.
ID# 17217 -- 17217 -- Don’t Expect Democrats to Give Up on Wokeness Anytime Soon -- Description of the dynamics that have deeply embedded woke ideology in Democratic political thought (despite its electoral liabilities).
ID# 17219 -- 17219 -- The election, the elite, and the roots of our dysfunction -- The review and brief summary of two new books that explore the ways in which the cultural traits of the highly educated are diverging from the traits of the larger population.
ID# 17226 -- 17226 -- Key to Trump’s Win: Heavy Losses for Harris Across the Map -- An impressive collection of maps with county-level statistics revealing how voter preferences changed between 2020 and 2024.
ID# 17239 -- 17239 -- Liberals Bet They Could Beat Trump With the Law. They Lost -- An explanation of why the Democratic effort to defeat Trump through criminal prosecutions failed and why political movements must be defeated politically .
ID# 17243 -- 17243 -- The Democrats Are in Trouble. This Man Can Save Them -- As Democrats (and even Republicans) try to build a solid base of political support, an argument that the philosophy of John Rawls offers a more broadly attractive basis for building a fair society.
ID# 17251 -- 17251 -- A Guide for the Politically Homeless -- For those who feel alienated from contemporary Republican and Democratic politics, a call to become engaged in a new and more positive political movement.
ID# 17258 -- 17258 -- What Lies Beneath: Understanding the Roots of Division -- An essay that outlines the "four truths of conflict" and then applies those truths to the contemporary political moment.
ID# 17265 -- 17265 -- The Moral Challenge of Trumpism -- From David Brooks, an effort to understand the moral basis Trump's support and how those beliefs differ from the political morality that has traditionally dominated democratic societies.
ID# 17271 -- 17271 -- The International Criminal Court’s Folly -- A carefully reasoned article that argues that the International Criminal Court's recent indictment of Israeli leaders was unfair and unjustified.
ID# 17273 -- 17273 -- The Department of Education: The Un-American Institution Destroying Progress -- In the spirit of listening to the other side, this article tries to explain why so many of those on the political right are so opposed to the actions of the US Department of Education.
ID# 17276 -- 17276 -- We Don’t Need This Much Permitting -- As the controversy surrounding the Department of Government Efficiency heats up, an argument that we really are an overregulated society.
ID# 17278 -- 17278 -- Unreasonable Rationality -- An intriguing essay asking us to explore the important but seldom recognized distinction between reasonableness and rationality.
ID# 17289 -- 17289 -- America doesn't really have a working class -- A thought-provoking exploration of the nature of class in contemporary society and an argument that what we traditionally thought of as the working class may no longer exist.
ID# 17294 -- 17294 -- What Can Stop the Cycle of Escalation in Ukraine? -- As the war in Ukraine slowly escalates, thoughts about what might be done to reverse this dangerous trend.
ID# 17308 -- 17308 -- Politicization of the American University -- An excellentseries of articles that try to help us understand how higher education has changed in recent years, why it's public support has collapsed, and what might be done to fix things.
ID# 17319 -- 17319 -- The Warning -- An ominous story about why experts believe that Russia is the developing the ability to successfully attack the vast array of satellites upon which modern society depends.
ID# 17326 -- 17326 -- Britain’s Starmer Is Trying to Fight Populism From the Lonely Center -- A profile of the one major country in which centrists are actually in power and offering voters an governing alternative between the populism of the left and the right.
ID# 17328 -- 17328 -- What Biden’s Lawfare Has Wrought -- A look at the ways in which the use of lawfare strategies by Democrats has transformed our politics.
ID# 17329 -- 17329 -- To save liberal democracy, save its institutions -- The persuasive argument that well-functioning institutions (not individuals) are the key to successful democratic societies (because they allow us to effectively pool our collective expertise).
ID# 17331 -- 17331 -- The ‘Mainstream Media’ Has Already Lost -- An examination of the many ways in which the influence of mainstream media has sharply declined as other media sources have risen to take their place.
ID# 17335 -- 17335 -- Making Sense of the 2024 Elections as a 21st Century Paradigm Shift -- Seth David Radwell argues that the U.S. political Left-Right paradigm has shifted to focus on where the authority to govern lies.
ID# 17339 -- 17339 -- Check Out the New Functionality and 15 Additional States in the Healthy Democracy Ecosystem Map! -- The National Civic League has added data and new functions to its Health Democracy Ecosystem Map.
ID# 17340 -- 17340 -- Technology is Part of the Problem, but also Part of the Solution -- Researchers are exploring how technology could improve dialogue—and democracy. For instance, could AI help humans find common ground, make hard online conversations easier, and expand the tools available to peacebuilders? Yes!
ID# 17342 -- 17342 -- Power of Networks: Interconnectedness Drives Change -- Our world is beset by societal challenges that are large, complex, dynamic and highly contextual. Networks can play a transformative role in resolving these challenges by sparking an interconnected web of actors and actions.
ID# 17344 -- 17344 -- Hands Across the Hills Tells Its Story -- The story of a six-year bridging project between a progressive and a conservative community, with their voices, training resources & links to media coverage. Available for free as a pdf.
ID# 17348 -- 17348 -- How does our anger at "them" create the things we're angry about? -- An insightful essay on positive feedback systems (in which "positive" does not mean good, but rather ever-escalating) and what we call "the backlash effect" which creates a self-fulfilling destructive prophecy.
ID# 17351 -- 17351 -- It’s Time for Institutional Insurgency -- Playing defense on behalf of a broken status quo isn't an effective strategy. Democrats need to be bold, grounding its democracy rhetoric in reforms the public will strongly support.
ID# 17355 -- 17355 -- Understanding Peace Agreements: A Journey Through Words and Impact -- Conflict Transformation, Peacebuilding and Security explores the layers of peace agreements, exploring their language, intent, and the challenges of implementation.
ID# 17358 -- 17358 -- Panel discussion on generating the connective tissue of American civil society -- A panel with authors, scholars, and practitioners at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, shares stories about where and how U.S. civic life is actually thriving.
ID# 17359 -- 17359 -- A Call to Hearten: Let Tender Tenacity Walk with Fierce Patience -- John Paul Lederach offers a poetic reflection on resilience and compassion following the U.S. November, 2024 election.
ID# 17362 -- 17362 -- 6 Reasons Why Understanding Each Other Is More Important Than Ever -- Though neither side is likely to be interested in understanding "the other" after the U.S. election, Starts with Us argues that when we fail to understand each other, we push each other away and amplify our divides.
ID# 17364 -- 17364 -- We Rate Thanksgiving Advice -- Written for Thanksgiving get togethers, the advice offered here also applies to Christmas and other December/January holiday festivities.
ID# 17368 -- 17368 -- Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques -- In October of 2014, Matt Abrahams, a lecturer of strategic communication at Stanford Graduate School of Business, gave a lecture at Alumni Weekend that went viral. This video touches on many of those same topics.
ID# 17370 -- 17370 -- The Civic Information Index -- The Civic Information Index uses data to map drivers of engaged, informed, equitable, and healthy communities nationwide.
ID# 17372 -- 17372 -- Prioritizing Service Years to Strengthen Our Civic Bonds -- The Service Year Alliance's policy agenda uses service years (such as AmeriCorps service) to as part of the program to help strengthen civic bonds.
ID# 17377 -- 17377 -- Millions of Conversations' Pledge to Listen -- To help break down the misunderstandings that keep driving us apart, Millions of Conversations is asking us all to take a "Pledge to Listen." And, to make this easier, they also offer a listening guidebook.
ID# 17378 -- 17378 -- The Priority Gap -- Following the 2024 election, More in Common surveyed 5,005 Americans to explore what shaped their voting decisions, how they perceive polarization and division, and – most importantly – how they understand one another.
ID# 17380 -- 17380 -- AI and the Future of Civics (with Adam Hinds, Michael Champigny, and Will Foster-Nolan) -- What can experiential learning reveal about students’ capacity to engage with complex policy issues? This article explores that and more.
ID# 17382 -- 17382 -- Right-Wing Populism – A Constructive Conflict Approach -- Longtime colleague Lou Kriesberg made this presentation to PARCC at Syracuse niversity. Watch the video here with the passcode =yd4?*&Z
ID# 17383 -- 17383 -- The Re-Skilling of America -- Hard questions about whether higher education is giving students real value for their money and whether programs that cultivate blue-collar skills might be more valuable.
ID# 17390 -- 17390 -- The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone -- Jaw-dropping statistics about how quickly men are disappearing from the ranks of those who write and read books.
ID# 17392 -- 17392 -- The Nearly $100 Million Election-Reform Flop -- A postmortem on the once promising efforts to strengthen democracy through open primaries and ranked choice voting.
ID# 17393 -- 17393 -- The Syrian Regime Collapsed Gradually—And Then Suddenly -- A must read article that places Syria's collapse in the context of the larger struggle against the kind of brutal authoritarianism that characterized the Asad regime.
ID# 17395 -- 17395 -- Climate Activists Need to Radically Change Their Approach Under Trump -- Thoughts about steps the climate change movement can take to escape the ups and downs of partisan politics and build a strong bipartisan foundation for its efforts.
ID# 17397 -- 17397 -- As Russia and China Rewrite Rules of War, NATO Adapts Its Game Plan -- While we are preoccupied with the minutia (and often silliness) of contemporary politics, we are failing to address rapid changes that are dramatically increasing the risk of large-scale war.
ID# 17398 -- 17398 -- Healthcare Is Broken. Fixing It Is Virtually Impossible. -- In the context of the healthcare industry, a look at how the industry's complexities have made its problems virtually insoluble.
ID# 17401 -- 17401 -- Democrats need to loudly reject progressive extremism -- An argument that the key to rolling back the extremes of right-wing populism is for Democrats to disassociate themselves from the extremes of left-wing progressivism.
ID# 17402 -- 17402 -- Constant Demand For Censorship By Elites Shows Their Rule Depends Upon Disinformation -- A sobering analysis of the ongoing global campaign against misinformation -- a campaign that this author believes is a cover for political censorship.
ID# 17404 -- 17404 -- H.R. McMaster: My Travels with Trump -- A rare article about Donald Trump that honestly tries to assess his strengths and weaknesses (and an article written by somebody who actually worked closely with the incoming President.)
ID# 17408 -- 17408 -- The Left-Flank Albatross -- An especially perceptive look at the role that the progressive left's unpopular agenda played in Donald Trump's victory.
ID# 17409 -- 17409 -- The Democrats' Dirty Tricks Playbook? -- A disturbing explanation of why No Labels was unable to offer voters a viable alternative to the Trumo and Harris candidacies.
ID# 17410 -- 17410 -- The New Yorker’s Cavalcade of Ignorance -- A critique of our widespread inability to think sensibly about complexities of the modern world (and our declining interest in even trying).
ID# 17430 -- 17430 -- To Assess or to Advocate? -- An illuminating exploration of what happens to public trust when scientific objectivity is subordinated to political advocacy.
ID# 17441 -- 17441 -- Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success -- A look at the long shadow cast by the September 11 attack and another reminder of the complex and unpredictable consequences of wars and the actions that provoke them.
ID# 17460 -- 17460 -- Why sociologist Musa al-Gharbi says social justice elites value performance over progress. -- An interview with Musa al-Gharbi, author of ""We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" and a look at the difference between rhetoric and actual problem-solving.
ID# 17465 -- 17465 -- Authoritarianism, explained -- Drawing from experts on authoritarianism and case studies of democratic backsliding around the world, The Authoritarian Playbook defines seven tactics that tend to differentiate would-be authoritarian leaders from the regular jockeying of democratic politics.
ID# 17467 -- 17467 -- Facing Uncertainty Together: How Philanthropy Can Stand for Democracy in Challenging Times -- A look at how the philanthropic sector views democracy's ongoing crisis and their role in helping to address that crisis.
ID# 17468 -- 17468 -- Has World War III Already Begun? -- For those who are not yet taking the danger of the 3rd World War seriously, a reminder that World War II started with a series of lower level skirmishes that are eerily similar to contemporary events.
ID# 17469 -- 17469 -- How Israel Turned the Mideast Around -- Reflections on 15 months of war in the Middle East and the complex an unpredictable chain of events unleashed by the October 7 attack.
ID# 17477 -- 17477 -- Americans' Rage at Health Insurance Companies Is an Opportunity -- An example of the benefits of looking at problems and crises as opportunities to actually make things better.
ID# 17478 -- 17478 -- Al-Assad’s Fall Has Changed the Future of the Middle East -- From the United States Institute of Peace, thoughts about the far-reaching ramifications of the collapse of Syria's Assad regime.
ID# 17479 -- 17479 -- To Dial Down Campus Tensions, Colleges Teach the Art of Conversation -- A much smarter approach to campus controversies (and controversies in the larger society).
ID# 17481 -- 17481 -- Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond -- For those who might think that there's no real difference between the power elites who rule Western democracies and those that rule autocracies, an inside look at the way Russia keeps its people in line.
ID# 17483 -- 17483 -- To Whom Does the World Belong? -- An exploration of an interesting moral and legal question related to AI -- If it is based upon our collective knowledge (as gleaned from the Internet) who owns the product it produces?
ID# 17487 -- 17487 -- It’s Going to Be Normal to Have Extreme Beliefs -- Thought-provoking speculation about the ways in which ongoing changes in media and politics will be reflected in the things that people believe.
ID# 17492 -- 17492 -- Six-Chart Sunday (#47) – OK, DOGE’R -- A compilation of statistics that help us understand the key facts behind the upcoming campaign to promote government efficiency.
ID# 17498 -- 17498 -- Tyranny Is Not What It Used to Be -- A report on Anne Applebaum's new book, "Autocracy, Inc." -- an examination of the crucial differences between 21st-century autocracies and those that plagued the 20th century.
ID# 17499 -- 17499 -- Totems and Taboos -- A summary and review of an important new book, "Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution" examining the epicenter of our political divide.
ID# 17500 -- 17500 -- Beyond Red and Blue -- A hopeful story about those who have been able to craft political campaigns that span the red blue divide.
ID# 17501 -- 17501 -- Debanking and the Return of Operation Choke Point -- Yet another example of the ways in which the rule of law is being circumvented in ways that can, despite well-meaning intentions, be circumvented by bad-faith actors.
ID# 17502 -- 17502 -- The Economics of Media Bias -- From the Wall Street Journal, an explanation of the financial incentives that make mainstream media biased and make it hard for unbiased media to be commercially viable.
ID# 17504 -- 17504 -- Maybe Democrats Didn’t Do So Badly After All -- For Democrats, a not so dismal look at election results and a reminder that, despite Trump's big victory, we remain a deeply and evenly divided nation.
ID# 17506 -- 17506 -- Political Violence Happens Because We Let It -- An argument the political violence doesn't just happen -- that happens because we fail to nurture the norms and institutions which prevent it.
ID# 17507 -- 17507 -- Violent Conflict is Destructive. Nonviolent Conflict is Essential -- The entire field of nonviolent conflict exists to help people make their point without firing a gun.
ID# 17510 -- 17510 -- How Does A.I. Think? Here’s One Theory. -- Insightful reflections on the way in which AI technologies actually think -- something that, surprisingly, its designers don't really understand.
ID# 17514 -- 17514 -- The Crumbling Foundation of America’s Military -- Thoughts about the critically important relationship between the United States' atrophying military-industrial complex, deterrence, and the risk of war.
ID# 17515 -- 17515 -- Done With Never Trump -- From a conservative, "Never-Trumper," thoughtful reflections about the things that his movement got right and got wrong plus thoughts about how to be most constructive during the coming Trump administration.
ID# 17516 -- 17516 -- If Men Are in Trouble, What Is the Cause? -- A review, with lots of links, to the latest social science thinking about the many challenges facing men and boys.
ID# 17518 -- 17518 -- A simple Recipe for Complex Community Change: Make Stone Soup -- Yet even when trust is low and resources seem scarce, communities possess capacity for successful collaboration that, when properly activated, produces remarkable results.
ID# 17520 -- 17520 -- Cultivating Solidarity and Hope in a Fractured World -- Eric K. Ward and Deepa Iyer offer thoughtful reflections on the recent US elections, discussing strategies to confront authoritarianism, strengthen transnational solidarity, and build long-term infrastructure for social justice.
ID# 17521 -- 17521 -- A Winning Strategy: Defending Democracy with Civil Resistance, with Maria Stephan -- Maria Stephan discusses the historic success of protest and non-violent civil disobedience in protecting democracy and describes how it might be used now to combat authoritarianism and polical violence.
ID# 17522 -- 17522 -- Supporting Society’s Bridge Builders -- In a world of increasing complexity and polarization, system orchestrators drive collective action to achieve outsized impact.
ID# 17523 -- 17523 -- Fear, Grievance, and the Other -- How Authoritarian Populist Politics Thrive in Contemporary Democracies — Key concepts to understand politics beyond the left-right paradigm.
ID# 17524 -- 17524 -- Stop and think: An undervalued approach in a world that short-circuits thoughtful political judgment -- Thought and reflection take time. Our current modes of politics allow for neither. And we are worse off because of that.
ID# 17525 -- 17525 -- How Shame Contributed To The Rise Of The Right -- Arlie Rothschild investigated reasons voters chose Trump in a poor Kentucky county. it’s not just about the economy, trans rights, or climate change, but about loss, shame, and ultimately pride.
ID# 17526 -- 17526 -- 'The fall of any dictator reflects badly on all autocracies' -- Journalist and author Anne Applebaum joins Trevor Phillips to discuss the network of authoritarian states and the challenges they pose for the West.
ID# 17527 -- 17527 -- Solidarity is Hard -- A webinar discussing the evolution and power of local action in the South and in Los Angeles, showing how each community’s unique path fuels a shared fight for justice, resilience, and real change.
ID# 17528 -- 17528 -- The Future of our Fromer Democracy -- Northern Ireland’s history and politics offer a blueprint for how the US can implement a better electoral system, especially in the wake of rising polarization and political violence.
ID# 17529 -- 17529 -- Our favorite findings from 2024 -- At More in Common, we aim to provide Americans with new ways of thinking about our politics. Here are some of MiC's favorite findings from the past year.
ID# 17536 -- 17536 -- Smash The Technopoly! -- An interesting exploration of the longer-term relationship between technology and society with lots of references to the people who have done much to help us understand this crucial topic.
ID# 17537 -- 17537 -- How Liberal America Came to Its Senses -- An account of the rise and, according to this author, the fall of so-called "woke" ideology.
ID# 17538 -- 17538 -- Builders vs. Dividers: Who Fared Better in Elections? -- From Starts with US: Among House representatives up for reelection, 82% of Builders reclaimed their seats versus 100% of Dividers. What does that mean?
ID# 17539 -- 17539 -- Syrian mass grave is largest uncovered since Stalin era as 100,000 bodies were discarded outside Damascus: advocacy group -- A sobering reminder of the unfathomable barbarity that was at the core of Assad's rule of Syria.
ID# 17540 -- 17540 -- Diplomacy of Peace at Any Price -- A provocative and doubtless controversial essay asking hard questions about situations in which the desire to bring about the quickest possible end to hostilities conflicts with the desire to overthrow murderous authoritarian regimes.