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Are people "pro-democracy"?
In the battle to defend/reform/reinvigorate/stabilize/resilient-ize American democracy, we may be relying on a narrative that only resonates with the folks doing the work.
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The Biden Administration Year 2
In this moment of "all the things" it's easy to forget that President Biden should just be getting started.
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Habit is not the same as tradition
We need to talk about what we're really talking about when we talk about the filibuster: our desperate need for our leaders to govern.
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We still need justice for January 6th
There is no "too late" here: investigate, prosecute, expel, imprison.
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Our questions matter
Maybe the uncertainty of 2021 (and 2020) is not pointing to clear answers, but perhaps is giving us something else we need: room to ask questions.
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An accidental Fulcrum Strategy
Instead of creating a 3rd caucus in the Senate by electing independents, are we about to see the dream of the bipartisan/antipartisan movement come to fruition as a consequence of party dysfunction?
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Clarity but not focus
More clarity about what and how you want to engage in the world does not necessarily guarantee the ability to focus your work.
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The Problem with Truth
In our desperation to makes sense of a complex world, we've damaged the concept of truth so badly we're now prepared to call it dead -- to our great detriment.
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Knowledge versus wisdom
Access to information keeps speeding up, but how does our habit for instantaneous knowledge effect our expectations for wisdom?
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Privacy progress or handwaving?
Next year, Google will give up on tracking technologies that on longer make them enough money to justify the privacy invasion. And they want a pat on the back.
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Is the Overton Window a tool or a weapon?
If we want the ideological boundaries of society to help us build community rather than contribute to its compromise, we need to remember what they are for.
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Ideology versus economics
Solving our information crisis requires more than one solution because there is more than one problem