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Reflections on Elections

Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 01.12.2013 | Politics
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Jeffrey Abelson

We feel stymied, frustrated that there's no truly effective way to have our say in the political decision-making process that affects all our lives. And we're wrong.

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Washington Is Fixed and Needs to Be Broken

Peter T. Coleman, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Peter T. Coleman, PhD

Research on complex systems shows that even slight changes in the basic rules of actors in a system can have huge emergent effects on the qualities of the system. This will apply to our politics as well.

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Obama Should Be Ashamed Only Two-Thirds Approve of Him

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Chris Weigant

People are weighing their own impressions of our new president with what the media is telling them to believe. For the most part, they are deciding that the media's take is wrong.

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