
- March 14, 2013 Why Did Rome Fall?
- March 07, 2013 Ancient Rome v USA
- February 28, 2013 Corporations Are Hoarding
- February 21, 2013 The Problem is Inequality
- February 14, 2013 Violence No. 1
- February 07, 2013 Peons and Paupers
- January 31, 2013 Treasure Islands
- January 24, 2013 Fads, Crazes, Persuasion, Group Hysteria, Narcissism, and Lance Armstrong
- January 17, 2013 The Extended Mind
- January 10, 2013 Good People With Guns
- January 03, 2013 The End of Nature and the Poverty of Desire
- December 27, 2012 The Future I Want to Live In
- December 20, 2012 Silent Nights and Radical Reformers
- December 13, 2012 "Responsibility to Protect"
- December 06, 2012 The Greater Gaza
- November 29, 2012 Spiritual Fitness
- November 22, 2012 Soul Repair
- November 15, 2012 What We Eat
- November 08, 2012 Concessions, Denials, Victories, and Affirmations
- November 01, 2012 Sandy Studies
- October 25, 2012 Analyzing the Slogans
- October 18, 2012 The Invisible Government - Continued
- October 11, 2012 The Invisible Government
- October 04, 2012 Communitarianism v Liberalism
- September 27, 2012 The Narrative Self
- September 20, 2012 Rising Anger
- September 13, 2012 General Discussion: Compliance the Movie
- September 06, 2012 General Discussion: Take a Photo
- August 30, 2012 The Making of a MOOC
- August 23, 2012 Notice of Occupy Events
- August 16, 2012 General Discussion
- August 09, 2012 Friendship and Community
- August 02, 2012 A Thousand Lily Pads
- July 26, 2012 The Question of Talent
- July 19, 2012 Occupy's Economic Alternatives
- July 12, 2012 Economics for the 99%
- July 05, 2012 The Drug Wars
- June 28, 2012 Public v Private Sectors
- June 21, 2012 The Lesser of Two Evils Principle
- June 14, 2012 A Trip to Washington with the League of Women Voters
- June 07, 2012 Pots and Pans
- May 31, 2012 Robber's Cave and the European Union
- May 24, 2012 The Global Spring
- May 17, 2012 Liquid Democracy
- May 10, 2012 The Vanishing People
- May 03, 2012 May Day
- April 26, 2012 Mothers and Others
- April 19, 2012 The Ethics of Care
- April 12, 2012 Poverty and Developing Countries
- April 05, 2012 Real-World Problems and Game Play
- March 29, 2012 Anthropocene Extinction
- March 22, 2012 Individual Autonomy
- March 15, 2012 "Unless..."
- March 08, 2012 "Invisible Children"
- March 01, 2012 Being Human
- February 23, 2012 Global Warming: An Update
- February 16, 2012 Realizing the Good Life
- February 09, 2012 How to Play Plutonomy
- February 02, 2012 Who is a Terrorist?
- January 26, 2012 An Update on Privatization and Deregulation
- January 19, 2012 The Good News
- January 12, 2012 Nonviolent Struggle
- January 05, 2012 The Psychology of Pork
- December 29, 2011 The People Will Win, But How?
- December 22, 2011 Tidings
- December 15, 2011 Misery Bear and Liberal Muppets
- December 08, 2011 More Words Republicans Cannot Say
- December 01, 2011 Liquid War
- November 24, 2011 Happy Thanksgiving
- November 17, 2011 Encroachment, Occupy, and Reoccupy
- November 10, 2011 Consensus, Due Process, and the Network Form
- November 03, 2011 Calling 99:1
- October 27, 2011 Cops and Robbers
- October 20, 2011 About the Money?
- October 13, 2011 Ranting, Brightsiding, and Leapfrogging
- October 06, 2011 Folk Devils and Moral Panics
- September 29, 2011 Class Warfare
- September 22, 2011 Science, Fiction and Our Future
- September 15, 2011 Hello Darkness My Old Friend: Poverty, Anxiety and Depression
- September 08, 2011 Redistribution
- September 01, 2011 Secrets, Lies and Politics
- August 25, 2011 The Authoritarians: Part 5
- August 18, 2011 Things Fall Apart?
- August 11, 2011 Burning and Bigotry
- August 04, 2011 How Do the People Speak, What Do They Say?
- July 28, 2011 The Changing Meaning of Work
- July 21, 2011 Women Under the Gun
- July 14, 2011 Personal and National Forgiveness
- July 07, 2011 The Crime of Apartheid
- June 30, 2011 The Authoritarians: Part 4
- June 23, 2011 The Authoritarians: Part 3
- June 16, 2011 What's Important?
- June 09, 2011 The Authoritarians: Part 2
- June 02, 2011 The Authoritarians: Part 1
- May 26, 2011 Social and Political Narrative: Stories That Influence Our Lives
- May 19, 2011 Perception, Personalization, Privacy, and Personhood
- May 12, 2011 Population: Are There Too Many People? - Continued
- May 05, 2011 Justice, Vengeance and the Death of Osama bin Laden
- April 28, 2011 Population: Are There Too Many People?
- April 21, 2011 Death, Taxes and Class Eugenics
- April 14, 2011 Hive Minds vs. The Capacity to Think
- April 07, 2011 The Shortest Poem: "Me, We" - Muhammad Ali
- March 31, 2011 Agnotology: The Study of Culturally Induced Ignorance or Doubt
- March 24, 2011 Fighting Back
- March 17, 2011 Energy: Where is the Debate?
- March 10, 2011 Brother Sun Sister Moon
- March 03, 2011 Eating Free Pizza: The People Fight for Freedom
- February 24, 2011 Economic Oppression
- February 17, 2011 Of the Corporations, By the Corporations, For the Corporations - Continued
- February 10, 2011 Of the Corporations, By the Corporations, For the Corporations
- February 03, 2011 Perception Management
- January 27, 2011 The Rise or Fall of Women
- January 20, 2011 Bad Juju
- January 13, 2011 Mindfulness and the Second Part of Life
- January 06, 2011 Parens Patriae
- December 30, 2010 My Personal Passion Trajectory
- December 23, 2010 Cardboard Testimonies
- December 16, 2010 Averagism or Exceptionalism
- December 09, 2010 Assange v Xiaobo: A Comparative Analysis
- December 02, 2010 Anonymity and Secrets
- November 25, 2010 Happy Thanksgiving: Culture and the Internet
- November 18, 2010 Fifteen Minutes Of Fame, A Lifetime Of Humiliation
- November 11, 2010 Still Alive: Understanding the Times From a Liberal POV
- November 04, 2010 Losses and Victories, but What Changed?
- October 28, 2010 One-way Manned Mission to Mars
- October 21, 2010 Satyagraha - "Truth, Pursuit Of"
- October 14, 2010 Navigating The New Normal
- October 07, 2010 Living With Healthcare
- September 30, 2010 Human Rights: Has Anything Improved? - Continued
- September 23, 2010 "There is Heat in Freezing, Be a Testament"- Tanya Davis
- September 16, 2010 Human Rights: Has Anything Improved? - Continued
- September 09, 2010 Human Rights: Has Anything Improved?
- September 02, 2010 How Should We Think About Bigotry?
- August 26, 2010 A Letter to P Street: How We Ought To Live
- August 19, 2010 Rage, Passion, and Politics
- August 12, 2010 Communitarianism: Finding Community Again
- August 05, 2010 Solidarity or Patriotism: What's the Difference?
- July 29, 2010 One Who Delivers
- July 22, 2010 The Kill Switch
- July 15, 2010 So Near, So Far
- July 08, 2010 A Better Idea
- July 01, 2010 Confession and Politics
- June 24, 2010 Hacking the Brain
- June 17, 2010 "If This Were A War"
- June 10, 2010 The Social Contract
- June 03, 2010 Now Is The Time
- May 27, 2010 Libertarianism and the Difference Principle
- May 20, 2010 Religion v Science
- May 13, 2010 "I dwell in Possibility--"
- May 06, 2010 Free at Last: Constitution Free Zones (CFZs)
- April 29, 2010 Change Agents
- April 22, 2010 Quotations and Bumper Stickers
- April 15, 2010 Extremism, Centrism, and the Limits to Tolerance
- April 08, 2010 Fairytale Politics
- April 01, 2010 Privacy: Should We Care?
- March 25, 2010 Omelas
- March 18, 2010 The Healthcare Bill and Alternatives to Jobs
- March 11, 2010 Personhood
- March 04, 2010 Austerity By Design?
- February 25, 2010 Ownership
- February 18, 2010 War and Peace
- February 11, 2010 California is a Failed State?
- February 04, 2010 Real Change v Change We Can Believe In
- January 28, 2010 "That's Not So"
- January 21, 2010 The Heckuva Times
- January 14, 2010 The People Option
- January 07, 2010 Big Ideas
- December 31, 2009 Have a Socially-able New Year!
- December 24, 2009 Merry Christmas!
- December 17, 2009 Deliver Us From Evil, or Deliver U.S. From Evil?
- December 10, 2009 Government: The Upgrade
- December 03, 2009 Institutionalization of Society
- November 26, 2009 The Sixth Child
- November 19, 2009 Somebodies and Nobodies
- November 12, 2009 Tribes to Networks
- November 05, 2009 Who Should Control the Internet?
- October 29, 2009 Community Values
- October 22, 2009 Values Across the Divisions
- October 15, 2009 DOW > 10,000: The Market Works?
- October 08, 2009 Government at Your Pleasure?
- October 01, 2009 Special Guest: Building a Culture of Empathy
- September 23, 2009 Brain Politics
- September 17, 2009 Assignment: Social Justice
- September 10, 2009 The Opportunity With Ezines
- September 03, 2009 Tentherism
- August 27, 2009 Who's a Liberal Now?
- August 20, 2009 The End of Education, The Dawn of Learning
- August 13, 2009 The Denial Industry
- August 06, 2009 Who Did You Vote For Really?
- July 30, 2009 Social and Political Movements
- July 23, 2009 Who Do You Trust Now?
- July 16, 2009 The CIA Didn't Tell Congress, BUT
- July 09, 2009 "What is Essential is Invisible to the Eye"
- July 02, 2009 How Does Your Life Mean?
- June 25, 2009 Election Fraud
- June 18, 2009 Liberals Don't Have Personal Responsibility?
- June 11, 2009 Prejudice Reduction: Is It Possible?
- June 04, 2009 Morality and Politics
- May 28, 2009 "Angles" or "Demons"
- May 21, 2009 Conversations for Change
- May 14, 2009 What Are You Any Good For?
- May 07, 2009 Bank Stress Test
- April 30, 2009 Bullying Husband, Battered Wife
- April 23, 2009 States of Mind
- April 16, 2009 If I Could Dream ... Again...
- April 09, 2009 Control Fraud and Liars' Loans
- April 02, 2009 "Financial Fools" and the Cost of Living
- March 26, 2009 Race and the Meltdown
- March 19, 2009 If I Receive a Government Benefit, Should I Feel Guilty?
- March 12, 2009 You Can't Feel Politics?
- March 05, 2009 How Should We Live?
- February 26, 2009 Reframing the Political Compass - Continued
- February 19, 2009 Reframing the Political Compass
- February 12, 2009 Agenda for a New Economy
- February 05, 2009 From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth
- January 29, 2009 Stimulus: "Our Last, Best Hope"
- January 22, 2009 "What the Cynics Fail to Understand..."
- January 15, 2009 Truth Commissions
- January 08, 2009 How Can We Thrive in an Age of Collapse?
- January 01, 2009 Hau'oli Makahiki Hou
- December 25, 2008 Pieces of Earth and Goodwill Tomatoes
- December 18, 2008 Censorship Should Be Banned?
- December 11, 2008 Human Rights and War
- December 04, 2008 Instead of War
- November 27, 2008 What's Your Idea of Change?
- November 20, 2008 Lines That Divide Us
- November 13, 2008 Me, We, and Many: Social Fluency and Politics
- November 06, 2008 Celebrations Around the World!
- October 30, 2008 Spread'n the Wealth: Trick or Treat?
- October 23, 2008 Managing an Online Community
- October 16, 2008 The Interregnum
- October 09, 2008 OPM, OPL, and CEOs: Economics and Ethics
- October 02, 2008 Money, Debt, and Voting
- September 25, 2008 Meltdown!
- September 18, 2008 Circumambulations: The Act of Moving Around Sacred Objects
- September 11, 2008 Truth and Politics: Caribou, Fish, Pit bulls, Pigs, and Lipstick
- September 04, 2008 Evangelism, Exceptionalism, Exclusivism, Elitism and Extremism
- August 28, 2008 Pepper Spray and Hope
- August 21, 2008 Comments and Reflections Within the Scope of Our Pay Grade
- August 14, 2008 The Other Candidates
- August 07, 2008 Strategies and Tactics for Impeachment
- July 31, 2008 Justice for Just Us
- July 24, 2008 Oops! Wrong President, Wrong Country
- July 17, 2008 Exorcising Our Inner Republican
- July 10, 2008 The Stages to Totalitarianism
- July 03, 2008 Smart Security
- June 26, 2008 My Country?
- June 19, 2008 Take the Democratic Party?
- June 12, 2008 We Have Nothing to Hide, or We Have Nowhere to Hide?
- June 05, 2008 "We're All In This Together, By Ourselves" - Lily Tomlin
- May 29, 2008 Why Does Oil Cost Over $120 Per Barrel?
- May 22, 2008 What Can Be Done About the Anti-black Vote?
- May 15, 2008 Good Religion, Bad Religion: Which Is Which?
- May 08, 2008 More War Crimes: Who Should Be Prosecuted?
- May 01, 2008 Section 2441: War Crimes
- April 24, 2008 Worker Rights Continued
- April 17, 2008 Worker Rights
- April 10, 2008 The Market Has No Mercy: Obstacles and Attitudes in Health Care Continued
- April 03, 2008 The Market Has No Mercy: Obstacles and Attitudes in Health Care
- March 27, 2008 Caring About One Another: The Lakoff Analysis
- March 20, 2008 Why Is the President In Such a Fine Mood?
- March 13, 2008 Does the GOP Make the World Go Round?
- March 06, 2008 Manipulation, Lies, and Superdelegates
- February 28, 2008 States of Emergency
- February 21, 2008 What's Wrong With Education?
- February 14, 2008 Democratizing Campaign Money
- February 07, 2008 Campaign Politics: Changes Upon Changes
- January 31, 2008 Economic Justice and Poverty
- January 24, 2008 Special Guest: Cindy Sheehan
- January 17, 2008 We Debate the Presidential Candidates
- January 10, 2008 Qualities of a Presidential Candidate
- January 03, 2008 The New Future of the World
- December 27, 2007 Deceiving Images: The Science of Manipulation
- December 20, 2007 Scrapple: Feeding at the National Cafeteria
- December 13, 2007 Energy and The Political Will
- December 06, 2007 Beyond War Returns: Special Guest Bill Schuerer
- November 29, 2007 Progressive Immigration: Where Do We Stand?
- November 22, 2007 Happy Thanksgiving: Voices to Challenge a Nation
- November 15, 2007 Talk Politics With People Unlike Yourself
- November 08, 2007 Ethics and OpenSource Looking Forward
- November 01, 2007 What To Do About The Blue Dogs and Emanuel
- October 25, 2007 Bioneer Bill On Local Living
- October 18, 2007 How Can The Natural Economy Become Real Again?
- October 11, 2007 What Do We Mean 'Local'?
- October 04, 2007 The Shock Doctrine: The Age of Disaster Capitalism
- September 27, 2007 Instead of FOX and CNN
- September 20, 2007 Debt and Taxes
- September 13, 2007 Sustainable Bainbridge
- September 06, 2007 Strength Through Peace
- August 30, 2007 Grand Mamas and Papas
- August 23, 2007 An Evening with Deborah Lagutaris
- August 16, 2007 Where Is the Leadership?
- August 09, 2007 MoveOn v Code Pink
- August 02, 2007 If terror is Bush's specialty, what else has he neglected?
- July 26, 2007 Local Sense and COINs
- July 19, 2007 What you are about to see now...
- July 12, 2007 How Can Bush and Cheney Be Impeached?
- July 05, 2007 How Hot Is Politics On the Internet?
- June 28, 2007 Democracy: The Opposite of Secrecy?
- June 21, 2007 Entrenched in Secrecy
- June 14, 2007 The Whispering Campaigns
- June 07, 2007 Bainbridge Island
- May 31, 2007 Decline to State, State of Decline
- May 24, 2007 Fear and Progressive Politics
- May 17, 2007 Fixing Health Care
- May 10, 2007 Framing Science
- May 03, 2007 Blueprint for Action: Thomas Barnett
- April 26, 2007 Buying the War
- April 19, 2007 The Moral Sense Test
- April 12, 2007 The Lucifer Effect
- April 05, 2007 Wikinomics
- March 29, 2007 Blackwater
- March 22, 2007 Thirty Things to Do Before You Turn 30
- March 15, 2007 The Struggle for Democracy: The GAO Gets Concerned
- March 08, 2007 High Crimes and Misdemeanors: Scooter, Vermont, and Prosecutors
- March 01, 2007 Public Funding of Campaigns
- February 22, 2007 Paper Trails
- February 15, 2007 Log Jam
- February 08, 2007 Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons
- February 01, 2007 Protest Roundup
- January 25, 2007 Watada and the Journalist
- January 18, 2007 Action On Viable Alternative Strategies For Iraq
- January 11, 2007 Viable Alternative Strategies For Iraq
- January 04, 2007 Punishment for Leaders of Nations
- December 25, 2006 Merry Christmas Sugarplums and Happy New Year
- December 21, 2006 Restoring Scientific Integrity
- December 14, 2006 Plundering the Internet
- December 07, 2006 Grave and Deteriorating
- November 30, 2006 Cultural Creative's
- November 21, 2006 Restitution
- November 16, 2006 Our agenda for the Democrat-controlled congress
- November 09, 2006 Victory is ours
- November 02, 2006 Voting Those Propositions Continued
- October 26, 2006 Voting Those Propositions, The Media Finnish
- October 19, 2006 Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil
- October 12, 2006 Empire
- October 05, 2006 Politics and Pages, Democrats' Risky Strategy: Trumpeting the Wealth Gap
- September 28, 2006 The Overton Window of Political Possibilities
- September 21, 2006 Tricks and Traps
- September 14, 2006 Who's Looking At Different Constituencies?
- September 07, 2006 Californians for Clean Elections
- August 31, 2006 What Can Be Done?, continued
- August 24, 2006 What Can Be Done?, continued
- August 10, 2006 What Can Be Done?
- July 27, 2006 American Dream Initiative
- July 20, 2006 Events In the Middle East
- July 13, 2006 The Value of Values, StraightTalk, Democracy Corps
- July 06, 2006 Newsweek Articles
- June 29, 2006 Interview: Mark Boslet
- June 22, 2006 The New Prairie Populism
- June 15, 2006 Take Back America, The Great Turning
- June 08, 2006 An Inconvenient Truth, Robert Kennedy: Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
- June 01, 2006 Crashing the Gate, The Vote
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