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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Thank You, Justice Gorsuch -- A persuasive and, for liberals, surprising look at where religious liberty ought to stand among our many constitutional rights. #mbi_context -- Dec 07
- The Millennial Action Project -- The MAP's mission is to activate young leaders to bridge the partisan divide and transform American politics with empathy, and innovation. #mbi_colleague -- Dec 07
- The Risk of Large-Scale Civil Unrest and Violence in the United States -- Are we on the brink of catastrophe...and if so, can we step back...or will we fall (or jump)? #mbi_frontiers -- Dec 07
- 1918 Germany Has a Warning for America -- A largely un-taught history of how Germany responded to its World War I defeat with a kind of denial that set the stage for World War II. #mbi_context -- Dec 06
- Massively Parallel Peacebuilding Paper -- MPP offers a strategy for combining our collective knowledge and skills into a large-scale effort to promote more constructive approaches to conflict. #mbi_frontiers -- Dec 06
- Nine Nonobvious Ways to Have Deeper Conversations -- Suggestions for those who would like to start having more conversations that realistically grapple with tough issues for which there are no easy answers. #mbi_context -- Dec 06
- Your Individually Rational Choice Is Collectively Disastrous -- The pandemic is a spectacular example of a tragedy of the commons in which the pursuit of individual self interest leads to catastrophe. #mbi_context -- Dec 03
- 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. #mbi_colleague -- Dec 03
- Introduction to the Conflict Frontiers Seminar Part II: Massively Parallel Peacebuilding -- Part II of the Beyond Intractability Frontiers Online Seminar shows how EVERYONE can and must get involved in solving today's big problems. #mbi_frontiers -- Dec 03
