May 26, 2012 • 6:46 pm 0
When straight guy friends used to ask me for advice on how to talk to women, I’d suggest, first, that they ask the women something about themselves. Along the lines of that shocker, here’s another piece of …
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Filed under: Blogosphere, Culture Think, Language, Literature & Literati, Teacher Power, Women's rights, Politics, women
April 5, 2011 • 2:16 am 0
How many times have we heard that the nation state is passé? That borders have disappeared, that distance is dead, that the Earth is flat, that our identities have become global, that politics transcends national boundaries, that the decisions shaping our economic lives are now made by multinational corporations and faceless international bureaucrats?
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Filed under: News, development, Nation, Nation Building and World Revolutions, Nationalism, News, Politics, WeSeeReason on Twitter, world politics
January 31, 2011 • 3:33 am 0
By ANTHONY SHADID and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: January 30, 2011
CAIRO — Egypt’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood and the secular opposition banded together Sunday around a prominent government critic to negotiate for forces seeking the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, as the army struggled to hold a capital seized by fears of chaos and buoyed by euphoria that three decades of Mr. Mubarak’s rule may be coming to an end.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/world/middleeast/31-egypt.html?_r=1&hp
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A fascinating part of this ongoing story is how social media is impacting social movements throughout the world.
Filed under: News, Current Events, Egypt, Middle East, News, Policy & Politics, Politics, Social Media, Social Media & Tech, Uncategorized
January 5, 2011 • 8:10 am 0
Policy Think Shop Discussion Topic:
Policy and Values
The World of the Policy Analyst offers a detailed study of the policy analyst‘s role in the policymaking process. By stressing the need of the analyst to recognize the political, social, and ideological forces that operate in the policy process while retaining analytical integrity, the authors bring a “real world” awareness to the understanding of the environment in which analysts must function. This edition covers recent efforts to integrate values and analysis, explores the implications of increasing fragmentation in the political system and the growing influence of think tanks at the national and state levels, and identifies the challenges posed by rapid scientific and technological change.
Filed under: Uncategorized, Federal government of the United States, labour, Policy & Politics, Policy Institutes, Policy Process Politics Values Objectivity of Science Social Science Public Policy, Politics, Social Sciences, Ted Rall, The New York Times, United States
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