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How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions

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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.

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Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class—A Status Update

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An update on the complex psychology of the cosmopolitan elite and the subtle and consequential ways in which they influence the rest of us.

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How Football Might Prevent Iraq's Next Civil War

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A hopeful story about a sports team that is helping span social and political divides in ways that are helping reduce tensions.

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National Civic League

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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.

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Meet the People Working on Getting Us to Hate Each Other Less

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A great summary, with lots of links, to the projects that are making massively parallel efforts to defuse hyper-polarization a reality.

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The Polarization Spiral -- How the right's monomania and the left's Great Awokening feed each other

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"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.

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What the Culture Wars Get Wrong

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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.

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These radically simple changes helped lawmakers actually get things done

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Another one of those good news stories about people doing things that the conventional wisdom thinks impossible.

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How to Destroy (What’s Left of) the Mainstream Media’s Credibility

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A critical response to ongoing calls for media to abandon the quest for objectivity in favor of solidarity with progressive worldviews.

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Three Cheers For Gradualism -- The case for incremental change in a radical age.

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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.

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