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MIT Technology Review
First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society
MIT Technology Review
8 min read · From 2017 · Dating websites have changed the way couples meet. Now evidence is emerging that this change is influencing levels of interracial marriage and even the stability of marriage itself.
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Brain Pickings
Confucius on Self-Discipline, the 6 Steps to a Harmonious Society, and Why Democracy Begins in the Heart
Brain Pickings
3 min read · 2021-01-28 · “Things have roots and branches… If the root be in confusion, nothing will be well governed.”
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The Atlantic
RIP Democracy
The Atlantic
20+ min read · From 2020 · Russia’s goal was never merely to elect Donald Trump. Now, Vladimir Putin is poised to complete the mission he began four years ago.
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The New York Times
The War on History Is a War on Democracy
The New York Times
~17 min read · 2021-06-29 · A scholar of totalitarianism argues that new laws restricting the discussion of race in American schools have dire precedents in Europe.
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The Washington Post
Perspective | Our democracy is under attack. Washington journalists must stop covering it like politics as usual.
The Washington Post
5 min read · 2021-07-28 · Why the press needs to shed ingrained habits to meet the defining crisis of our time.
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The Atlantic
What Facebook Did to American Democracy
The Atlantic
20+ min read · From 2017 · And why it was so hard to see it coming
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Vox
The fight is for democracy
Vox
~11 min read · 2020-10-22 · The stakes of this election are so high because the system itself is at stake.
Reader View · Shared by 164, including Mark Little, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, Joshua Benton, Katja Evertz, Ezra Klein
The New York Review of Books
Simulating Democracy
The New York Review of Books
~15 min read · 2020-09-17 · Jill Lepore is a brilliant and prolific historian with an eye for unusual and revealing stories, and her new book If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future is a remarkable saga,…
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The Atlantic
This Is How Democracy Dies
The Atlantic
5 min read · From 2020 · A court ruling against the Philippine journalist Maria Ressa illustrates the erosion of democratic norms, the corruption of institutions, and the compromises of decision makers.
Reader View · Shared by 146, including LoriBeth, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Mathew Ingram
