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Conflict Resolution Governance

Daniel Schorr on NPR: "The president tends to seek conflict resolution rather than drama. He has been compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt, confronted with an…

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Universal Service in the Broadband Age

Proposal to serve those without braodband available by using stimulus funding to deploy middle mile fiber and provision the first mile with cutting edge wireles…

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Yes, A Copyright Law Joke

You don't see a lot of law comics, much less comics about copyright law.  Does this clever cartoon from across the Web describe an instance of fair use?  Yo…

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Get Your Kirk On

Thomas Vinciguerra in the NYT: "So what, beyond pushing buttons, do these men — as all Kirk chair owners appear to be — do with the most conspicuous piece…

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Amnesia in the Face of Crisis

It’s fascinating to witness the public reaction as the newspaper industry implodes.  Young people are largely indifferent while older generations seem to think…

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Never again

Mark Danner in the NY Review of Books: "We think time and elections will cleanse our fallen world but they will not. Since November, George W. Bush and his…

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Growth through loneliness

Peggy Orenstein the NYT Magazine: '...a study published in 2007 in The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication suggested that hanging onto old friends vi…

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Have Fun Watching The Country

826 National is an incredible non-profit dedicated to improving writing and other skills among children ages to six to eighteen.  A few days after the election…