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- USIP's Free Online Courses -- 12 free courses on conflict and peacebuilding topics offered online by the U.S. Institute of Peace. #mbi_colleague -- Jul 14
- ‘How Can You Hate Me When You Don’t Even Know Me?’ -- A profile of someone with a rare and critically needed skill – the ability to persuade racists to abandon racism. #mbi_context -- Jul 13
- People in Advanced Economies Say Their Society Is More Divided Than Before Pandemic -- It's not just Trump. International data, from the pandemic year, shows sharply increased divisiveness in virtually all developed countries. #mbi_context -- Jul 13
- Our goal: to understand the veracity, quality and credibility of online information -- A research community fostering collaborative approaches to understanding the veracity, quality & credibility of online information that is a foundation of civil society. #mbi_colleague -- Jul 13
- Progressives’ Urgent Question: How to Win Over Voters of Color -- An interesting story on the gap that has emerged between antiracist progressives and grassroots Black and Latino voters. #mbi_context -- Jul 13
- The Perils of 180ism -- A timely plea to go beyond simply opposing anything that the other side supports and to honestly look at the merits of competing arguments. #mbi_context -- Jul 12
- Digital Social Innovation to Empower Democracy -- A TED-talk by the Digital Minister of Taiwan about using AI and tech to promote social innovation and to empower democracy to better represent citizens. #mbi_colleague -- Jul 12
- A Measure Short of War -- The Return of Great-Power Subversion -- Disturbing news that we should expect continuing efforts by global powers to subvert one another's interests using a wide range of dirty tricks. #mbi_context -- Jul 12
- Why Is It OK to Be Mean to the Ugly? -- An important reminder that there are largely unrecognized forms of unfair discrimination that don't get the attention they deserve. #mbi_context -- Jul 12
- How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era -- A TED-talk on a mobile platform to bring citizens inside the legislative process, and run candidates who will listen to citizens' hopes and needs. #mbi_colleague -- Jul 11
- Inside the extraordinary effort to save Trump from covid-19 -- As clean an example as I have found of the disconnect between the interests of unscrupulous leaders and the interests of their core supporters. #mbi_context -- Jul 11
- Where Did the Coronavirus Come From? What We Already Know Is Troubling. -- Reason to treat the proliferation of genetic and viral technologies as seriously as we treat the proliferation of nuclear weapons technology. #mbi_context -- Jul 11
- The Scaffolding of Truth -- A review of an important new book that can help us resolve our disputes on the basis of true facts (not facts as we would like them to be). #mbi_context -- Jul 11
- Democrats Debate Their 2020 Postmortems -- Food for thought on the all-important debate between progressives and moderates over what lessons can be drawn from the 2020 election. #mbi_context -- Jul 08
- Hate-Crime Laws Don’t Work as Their Supporters Intended -- An exploration of the limits of hate crime laws and an explanation of why the solution to hate cannot be to simply outlaw it. #mbi_context -- Jul 08
- The Center for Election Science -- A non-partisan organization focused on voting reform, seeking to establish voting methods that truly reflect voters' choices and strengthen democracy. #mbi_colleague -- Jul 08
- ‘The WEIRDest People in the World,’ by Joseph Henrich -- A review of an important new book that examines what's "WEIRD" about the societies that have emerged from Western Europe and why this matters. #mbi_context -- Jul 08
- As America Seeks Racial Justice, It Can Learn From Reconciliation Efforts Abroad -- A great overview of the many things that proponents of racial justice in the US could learn from the reconciliation efforts of other countries. #mbi_context -- Jul 07
- #ListenFirst Coalition -- A coalition of 250+ organizations working to help people bridge the partisan divide by listening to each other first, acting later. #mbi_colleague -- Jul 07
- Zivilcourage Is What America Needs to Rebuild Its Democracy -- A report on how Germany and other countries use Zivilcourage programs to strengthen the civic culture. #mbi_context -- Jul 07
- Gaza and Armenia Showed Which New War Technologies Might Work -- A report on two instances which demonstrate how rapidly changing military technologies are altering the nature of warfare in surprising and dangerous ways. #mbi_context -- Jul 07
- 90 Seconds Together -- An essay supporting the playing of the national anthem at sporting events – one of the few things we do to celebrate our collective identity. #mbi_context -- Jul 06
- Grove - An Accountability Project -- Helping citizens and leaders can learn more about each other, so leaders can serve their constituents more effectively and regain their trust. #mbi_colleague -- Jul 06
- John McWhorter - What is Racism? -- A great video lecture explaining why individual racism and systemic racism are different problems which must be approached in different ways. #mbi_context -- Jul 06
- Fleeing Venezuela -- A personal story of what happens in societies that fall victim to the dystopias of authoritarianism and state failure. #mbi_context -- Jul 06
