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Failing Productivity and Systems Change: Key Mindsets and Practices

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As we struggle with today's many problems, we are going to have to take on deeper systemic challenges. This will require us to learn how to embrace failure as an inevitable part of the work of shifting complex systems.

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Citizen Connect Participation Guide to the 2022 Midterm Elections

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Amid the flood of deceptive efforts to influence our votes in the upcoming US election, a project focused on helping people fulfill their civic obligations through informed voting.

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Intervention at Home in America

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An essay by James Adams, a retired peacebuilder, on the lessons he learned through decades of peace work in in conflict zones overseas, all of which apply to the United States today.

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10.40

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Large-Scale Violence

What This War Correspondent Wants You to Know About America and Fear

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It is almost always helpful to get an outside perspective from someone who is knowledgeable and cares. They can tell us things that, in the heat of a conflict, we can't see for ourselves.

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53.20

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Reliable Problem Assessments

The New Era of Political Violence Is Here

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A look at a possible next step in the escalation of our social and political conflicts --- a step that will start crossing the taboo line that separates violent from nonviolent conflict.

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10.40

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Large-Scale Violence

How Social Justice Became a New Religion

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For a time when we thought that religious wars were thing of the past, a provocative argument that we are dealing with a new kind of conflict – one based on a secular religion.

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Include in BI Newsletter (Old CRQ)
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15.00

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Us-vs-Them Thinking

Malthusian Theory Has Always Been False

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A hopeful argument that, despite over a century of worrying about "overshoot and collapse," economic productivity continually managed to outstrip population growth.

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56.20

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Effective Problem-Solving Efforts

Why I’ve stopped fearing America is headed for civil war

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A look at the factors that have persuaded one author that the risk of runaway escalation and violence is declining.

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51.20

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Escalation Limiting Projects

Unions are on a roll. And they unite a divided nation.

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A hopeful development that spans the political divide, unions are becoming more effective at protecting the interests of working class citizens.

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54.10

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Efforts to Limit Concentrated Power

Does Biden Really Believe We Are in a Crisis of Democracy?

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There is something very wrong with the political system (and a political party) that simultaneously tries to get Trump/MAGA candidates nominated and then demonizes them as a threat to democracy.

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31.00

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Hate Mongering