Use this for post-date ordered blog materials to be featured on the CC-MOOS All Recent Posts section of the BI homepage AND on the more limited, Selected Recent Posts section used on the landing pages mobile versions of BI. This is the same list we use on social media for the "Selected Posts" (MBI) option. 

Daniel Stid: The Laboratories of Democracy Need New Infrastructure

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Daniel Stid applies the "Willie Sutton Rule" to governance reform. Work (and provide funding) where the action and motivation is--at the local and state levels, not the federal level.

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Civil Rights Oral History Project Phase II Launch Event

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Highlights from the webinar announcing the launch of the Phase II Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project website -- including 11 new interviews added to 19 original ones, all telling amazing stories of how CRS "did the impossible."

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Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of December 21, 2025

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Another set of important readings to give us all much to ponder over this holiday break.

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The Burgesses Talk With Jonathan Stray on Journalism, AI, and U.S. Democracy

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Excerpts from a conversation we had with computer scientist/journalist/peacebuilding and AI expert Jonathan Stray about all of that and how AI might actually be able to help us reduce polarization and heal U.S. democracy.

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Stipulating the Terms of the Grand Bargain: Things to Think About and Work Toward

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A list of questions we need to answer as we consider how the democracy we are working for should be structured and should function.

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The Massively Parallel Approach — the Key to Dealing with Scale and Complexity

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The 7th installment of our "Big Picture Series," this post explains why "massively parallel" action--in peacebuilding, problem solving, democracy building, and civic renewal is the best way to deal with the staggering complexity and scale of society-wide conflicts.

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CRS Did the Impossible. Now It Is Gone. Can Anyone Else Fill Its Shoes?

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An obituary for the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service, reflecting on its important work and what is being lost with its closure.

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