Bij de Open State Foundation (waar ik voorzitter ben) zoeken we een nieuwe directeur! Herken jij je in het profiel (PDF), en ben je net zo bevlogen als ons team om digitale transparantie bij de overheid te bevorderen en onze democratie te versterken? Dan horen we heel graag van je! Nadrukkelijk ook als je vindt […]
The @CommunityStrong Constitution is a great start, but democracy needs better ears. To hear the silent majority—not just those with the most time, money, or loud voices—we must move beyond simple meetings to random-sample Citizens’ Juries. Let’s build a methodology that listens to everyone, not just the loudest.
Let’s remember what was revolutionary about the American Revolution.
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On 14 April, the Trump administration quietly acknowledged the widespread use of AI to automate government processes. The office of management and budget (OMB) disclosed a staggering 3,611 active or planned use cases for AI across the federal government. The list has ballooned by 70% from the one published in the final year of the Biden administration, and includes many disturbing-seeming plans…
Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked: “Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed AI, with virtually no democratic input, who stand to become even richer and more powerful than they are today?”
We agree entirely that this is one of the most potent…
The _Prospect_ has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.
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Imagine this scenario: one year from now. The eye that was once a household name on TV is no more. No more Late Show, no more Evening News, no more 60 Minutes, no more Price is Right. No more radio news with its famous chime. No more Wolf Blitzer, nor Richard Quest. No more James … Continue reading This is Ellison →
How Kristen Welker may be the antidote to Trump 2.0 What a way to start off the week: with one that has a temper tantrum. Kristen Welker of Meet the Press had another opportunity to grill Trump and get the truth out of him. Another for she took a jab at him before, during the … Continue reading Dwellings of a Manbaby. 🍼 →
A passenger at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, US, scans their ticket at a biometric station to board a flight. Image by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Photography, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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The Chinese Communist government continued its effort to erase the Tiananmen Square massacre from history on the 37th anniversary of that grim slaughter, ordering families of the dead to stay away from graves of their loved ones and cracking down on any attempt to remember the fallen.
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Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it.
Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent.
This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration war on campus speech that has…
The seeds of an authoritarian state will still be there unless the United States reckons with its own fascist past and how that relates to Stephen Miller’s vision for the future.
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With our democratic systems collapsing, which includes the dismantling of democratic systems in America, and the surge of far-right populism in Europe, one wonders what will become of democracy- whether it will be replaced by authoritarian rule as we are seeing in China and Russia, or if we will see something totally different that it … Continue reading Word of the Week: Fractal Democracy →
Sen. Chris Murphy has a sense of what ails America, and he wants to restore its spiritual core.
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Neither luddism nor accelerationism is a serious policy.
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2,036 words Part 2 of 3 (whole series here) The Idea of a Homeland One way to reduce resistance to remigration is to base it on the idea of a universal right to a homeland.[1] Every individual and every family should have the right to its own home, a refuge from the world where they […]
A new book by a genocide scholar traces the roots of the nation’s descent.
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Well, this is awkward.
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A burgeoning news website called the South Florida Standard has disappeared off the internet after an investigation uncovered that all of its reporters were AI-generated.
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The American people have been led astray about what climate change means for their pocketbooks.
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Why shouldn’t the British system tend toward justice?
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Cepeda denounces armed pressure on voters as Colombia heads toward the May 31 presidential election.
The man who told young Muslims democracy is a "great sin" is reportedly connected to an Islamist group banned in many countries.
Nothing Is Ever Going Back To Normal by Anya Kamenetz “By ‘normal-feeling’ I mean not utopia, but these two specific beliefs: “There are adults in charge of the most powerful country in the world and they are mostly doing their best “The arc of the moral universe bends toward justice*. Bad things are naturally going to […]
I come from an India, a land where time lingers in temple and church bells and ancient songs, yet hums … More
Some worry about a November Trump coup. That’s far-fetched, but the ordinary forms of voter suppression are the greater concern.
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A people permitted to vote, but not truly to decide, will not indefinitely remain loyal to an order that denies the force of its own consent.
In a stunning burst of hilarity upon the already ludicrous, the US DOJ has sued the SPLC, alleging that for decades it has been paying Right-wing extremists to continue being Right-wing extremists while passing along information to the SPLC. Now we know the secret to their “hacks” and “intelligence” reports: they paid for the information, […]
Iran’s internet has been intermittently disrupted for months. After years of bombardment, Gaza’s telecommunications infrastructure remains fragile. In India, recurring shutdowns and throttling have become a routine response to protests and unrest, cutting millions off from news, work, and basic services. Across dozens of other countries, governments increasingly treat connectivity itself as…
The WFP has unveiled a national platform and is building party organizations in nearly two dozen states.
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