American Democracy is an Easy Target

Americans have become paranoid about foreign cyberattacks on their political system, but they have nobody but themselves to blame.

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Facebook is Finally Learning to Love Privacy Laws (and Abraham Newman)

Nine years ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg claimed that people do not care about privacy. Things have changed. Access the full article here.
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Can Partisanship Save Citizenship?

Public intellectuals don’t agree on much. However, in recent years they seemed to nearly unanimously believe that American public life was in terrible shape. Political scientists debated whether voter turnout in national elections was merely stagnant or was actively declining. Sociologists suggested that television, overwork, and a breakdown in communal ties were undermining participation in ...
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