BI in Context [Old MOOS Additional References]

Promising suggestions for building the kind of vigorous and trustworthy local news system that is an essential component of successful democracies.

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.

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).

An plea to abandon us-vs-them thinking and focus on debating the relative merits of competing positions.

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.

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.

An article that draws an important distinction between two principal feminist visions – one focused on care-giving roles and a second focused on careers.

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.

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).

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.