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- Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing? -- A big and overlooked problem--a system that educates more people than society is now able to use--surely can we find a way to put these folks to work. #mbi_context -- Dec 16
- Frontiers Seminar: Authoritarian Populism -- A series of video lectures that apply Massively Parallel Peacebuilding to the interrelated challenges of populism and rising authoritarianism. #mbi_frontiers -- Dec 16
- Alaska voters adopt ranked-choice voting in ballot initiative -- A genuinely interesting, and quite promising electoral reform. #mbi_context -- Dec 15
- 2nd, 3rd, 4th... Order Problems -- Cynicism, reinventing the wheel, information friction and overload are among the problems that need to be tackled. #mbi_frontiers -- Dec 15
- Building Trust -- A handbook for religious leaders strengthening relations between police and communities #mbi_colleague -- Dec 15
- Even in a Pandemic, the Billionaires Are Winning -- Further evidence that the dynamics that produced the United States' grotesque levels of inequality are accelerating not abating. #mbi_context -- Dec 15
- How to Reconnect Rural and Urban America -- Serious thoughts on how to bridge what is probably the most important political divide in the US---the one between the cities and the countryside. #mbi_context -- Dec 14
- Why Big-City Dominance Is a Problem for Democrats -- For Democrats, an explanation of why it will be almost impossible to build a successful political coalition that writes off "flyover" country. #mbi_context -- Dec 14
- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding: "Things You Can Do" Actions -- Here's a start of a list of things you can do to be a part of a Massively Parallel Peacebuilding effort. #mbi_frontiers -- Dec 14
- The Transnational: for Peace by Peaceful Means -- The homepage of The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research with links to 1000s of articles examining the state of democracy, peace and conflict around the world. #mbi_colleague -- Dec 14
- The Transnational Peace Affairs -- One of two online journals of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research. #mbi_colleague -- Dec 13
- Why MPP Isn't Such a Crazy Idea -- The civil rights movement, and the environmental movement are both successful applications of a "massively parallel" strategy. #mbi_frontiers -- Dec 13
- Republicans and Democrats Need to Work Together. Earmarks Can Help. -- For those who thought that "earmarks" were a form of corruption, an argument that they can do much to make mutually-beneficial compromises possible. #mbi_context -- Dec 13
- How to Defeat Disinformation -- An Agenda for the Biden Administration -- Welcome news that we are starting to see serious thinking on how to effectively meet the threat posed by disinformation. #mbi_context -- Dec 13
- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding (MPP) -- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding enlists everyone engaged in or affected by conflict to help change its destructive course. #mbi_frontiers -- Dec 10
- They Tried to Cancel Me -- A "cancel culture" case study that explains how well-meaning efforts can be amplified to the point they are genuinely counterproductive. #mbi_context -- Dec 10
- My Political Autobiography: A Reflective Exercise -- From Essential Partners, a guide to help us understand where our political beliefs come from, and why things matter so much to us. #mbi_colleague -- Dec 10
- The Rotting of the Republican Mind -- When one party becomes detached from reality. -- An essay on what happens when neglecting and denying inconvenient truths comes to be a dominant mode of thought (not an occasional transgression). #mbi_context -- Dec 10
- Remember Martin Luther King Jr.? -- An argument that Kendi's antiracism won't work, but King's does. Is it time to revive the nonviolence movement. #mbi_context -- Dec 09
- The Peacebuilding / Constructive Confrontation Synthesis -- Good conflict resolution skills are not just for peacebuilders--they are crucial for disputants as well. #mbi_frontiers -- Dec 09
- The expanding class divide in happiness in the United States, 1972–2016. -- Further evidence of the enormous impact of our widening class divide, lower-class happiness is plummeting. #mbi_context -- Dec 09
- According to Justice Scalia, Trump's Lawyers Should Face Sanctions for 'Litigation Abuse' | Opinion -- For those on the left, a likely surprising story about Justice Scalia's views on those who abuse the court system. #mbi_context -- Dec 08
- Karl Rove's prophecy -- A chilling description from one of the inventors of "fake news" about how he intended to control the world with his fantasy alternate reality. #mbi_colleague -- Dec 08
- The Peace and Democracy-Building Continuum -- In 1988, it looked as if democracy and peace were advancing globally. Now they are both retreating. Can we reverse that trend? #mbi_frontiers -- Dec 08
- Summit for Democracy: Go Big -- For those who have been trying to help save democracy, an idea for a really big initiative. What would it take for this to succeed? #mbi_context -- Dec 08
