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- A Review of "We are Bellingcat" by Amy Zegart -- A look at our new world in which access to extremely sophisticated (and often quite invasive) "intelligence" is available to ever-growing segments of the population. #mbi_context -- Aug 11
- Wise Interventions -- A video explaining the notion of wise interventions and the searchable Wise Intervention database that can be used to design processes that work with people's psychology. #mbi_colleague -- Aug 11
- You’re Being Manipulated -- A big reason why we can't get along is that political partisans are using social media to divide, dominate, disorient, and demoralize us to the point where we quit trying. #mbi_context -- Aug 11
- 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. #mbi_context -- Aug 10
- The rise and importance of the 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. #mbi_context -- Aug 10
- Teaching Race in Kindergarten -- This is where the debate over "critical race theory" really matters – in deciding what and how we teach the next generation about how to make our diverse and flawed society really work. #mbi_context -- Aug 10
- Are the Elite Hijacking Social Change? -- An important book that challenges those of us working for social justice within existing systems of power to consider whether we are helping to perpetuate the problems we seek to solve. #mbi_context -- Aug 09
- Jayne Docherty: When the Militia Are Your Neighbors and Your Community is a Microcosm of the Country -- Stereotypes and distrust are hampering cooperation, but with effort, joint projects can bring people together to the benefit of all. #mbi_knowbase -- Aug 09
- We Have Never Been Modern -- A call for "symmetrical anthropology’ and an argument that social scientists should study and discuss their own societies in the same critical way that they analyze others. #mbi_context -- Aug 09
- The Biden Approach Is Working -- Amid all the doom and gloom, a hopeful argument that there are significant areas in which our democracy is actually functioning quite well. #mbi_context -- Aug 09
- A “Full Stack” Approach to Public Media in the United States -- A promising proposal for Improving society's information systems – extending the reach of impartial public media into new spheres of social media-based information. #mbi_context -- Aug 08
- David Brooks Reconsiders ‘Bobos in Paradise’ -- "A must-read essay for anyone who works in today's knowledge economy that explains the many ways in which this sector is contributing to our social breakdown. #mbi_context " -- Aug 08
- Game theory 101 -- A set of videos and matched textbook explaining game theory and why it matters. #mbi_colleague -- Aug 08
- Jayne Docherty talks about the Red/Blue Divide She Lives in Everyday -- Harrisonburg, VA, and its county, Rockingham couldn't be more different. But they are also surprisingly the same, which could be used to leverage improved relationships. -- Aug 08
- Apple is prying into iPhones to find sexual predators, but privacy activists worry governments could weaponize the feature -- "An alarming precedent for giving tech companies and their algorithms the power to routinely search our most private information. #mbi_context " -- Aug 08
- USIP's Free Online Courses -- 12 free courses on conflict and peacebuilding topics offered online by the U.S. Institute of Peace. #mbi_colleague -- Jul 14
- ‘How Can You Hate Me When You Don’t Even Know Me?’ -- A profile of someone with a rare and critically needed skill – the ability to persuade racists to abandon racism. #mbi_context -- Jul 13
- People in Advanced Economies Say Their Society Is More Divided Than Before Pandemic -- It's not just Trump. International data, from the pandemic year, shows sharply increased divisiveness in virtually all developed countries. #mbi_context -- Jul 13
- Our goal: to understand the veracity, quality and credibility of online information -- A research community fostering collaborative approaches to understanding the veracity, quality & credibility of online information that is a foundation of civil society. #mbi_colleague -- Jul 13
- Progressives’ Urgent Question: How to Win Over Voters of Color -- An interesting story on the gap that has emerged between antiracist progressives and grassroots Black and Latino voters. #mbi_context -- Jul 13
- The Perils of 180ism -- A timely plea to go beyond simply opposing anything that the other side supports and to honestly look at the merits of competing arguments. #mbi_context -- Jul 12
- Digital Social Innovation to Empower Democracy -- A TED-talk by the Digital Minister of Taiwan about using AI and tech to promote social innovation and to empower democracy to better represent citizens. #mbi_colleague -- Jul 12
- A Measure Short of War -- The Return of Great-Power Subversion -- Disturbing news that we should expect continuing efforts by global powers to subvert one another's interests using a wide range of dirty tricks. #mbi_context -- Jul 12
- Why Is It OK to Be Mean to the Ugly? -- An important reminder that there are largely unrecognized forms of unfair discrimination that don't get the attention they deserve. #mbi_context -- Jul 12
- Where Did the Coronavirus Come From? What We Already Know Is Troubling. -- Reason to treat the proliferation of genetic and viral technologies as seriously as we treat the proliferation of nuclear weapons technology. #mbi_context -- Jul 11
