“We were made different to complete each other…” — Egyptian engineer Muhammad Saladin Nusair, whose photo supporting Wisconsin workers went viral… Two remarkable presentations of our common humanity and shared predicament showed up in my emai…
The emergence of the Wikileaks phenomenon is a game-changer of the sort I highlighted in “Are we ready to change the Game yet?” http://bit.ly/bwGTJO. The unfolding Wikileaks saga is generating an increasingly novel playing field — remarkably diff…
Recently I’ve seen a swirl of information (mostly on the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation listserv) about participatory budgeting. Below, you’ll find a sampling of this info, in relatively raw form. I do not know enough to sort it …
Thomas Friedman suggests that the special strength of Egypt’s youth-led revolutionary movement has been “the fact that it represented every political strain, every segment and class in Egyptian society.” But then he turns around and says that dive…
Why would you want to become one? Here are four very enticing reasons: 1. You can get federal money and other favors for the people, companies, and interest groups who supported your campaign. Although you can do this with major legislation and ba…
The phrase “the commons” refers to domains and resources that belong to or affect the whole of a community. The “conversational commons” then embraces everything that supports or makes possible the enjoyable and productive conversations of a commu…