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Inventing the Social Network
Social media is only the latest development in a long history of community support.
Trench Democracy in Criminal Justice: an Interview with Lauren Abramson
Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places.
An America That Never Was: Norman Rockwell’s Vision
American Mirror, the new biography of Norman Rockwell.
Obama Got the Law Right and the Politics Wrong
His ACA employer mandate delay was constitutional—why didn’t he say so?
Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools
What advocates of market-based reform miss.
How De Blasio’s Real Estate Choices Can Save NYC
Cities can make decisions. Cities can set their own priorities. Cities can resist the self-interested categories of those with extraordinary wealth.
Awkward, Diligent: Liu Xiaobo’s Love Poetry
The creative output of the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Can Greece’s SYRIZA Change Europe’s Economy?
The biggest threat to Greece’s left-wing coalition is itself.
Microreview: Sharmila Cohen and Paul Legault, The Sonnets
Adaptations that preserve Shakespeare’s wit and carpe diem vulgarity.
Exhuming Equality: The Forensics of Human Rights
All around the world, we are digging up the dead.
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