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In 1995, Alan Ehrenhalt wrote a book on three Chicago neighborhoods called The Lost City , observing:

In the 1950s they [residents] considered the streets to be their home, an extension of their property, whereas today [1995] the streets are, for many people, an alien place. A block is not really a community in this neighborhood anymore. Only a hou

Neighborhoods that Nurture: Why The Play-Based Childhood Requires More Than Just Putting Down the Phone

In light of how Sulzberger’s newspaper covered the Holocaust, sweeping stories of the deaths of 1,000,000 of his own people under the rug of mundane stories like tests on coal and the deaths of individual Icelanders, the statement is devastatingly hypocritical.

Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

Othman was the director of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission.

Ronen Bergman • Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Tom Solid at Paperless Movement (Tom)

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Andrew DeStefano

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Oldenburg contends the most important “first place” in a community is the home. The places where we work are our “second place” since work is required and serious and “reduces the individual to a single productive role.” Our “third place” is composed of those informal, neutral, public social spaces we visit voluntarily—where “conversation is the pr

Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse

Laura Ro

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Jeffrey Waldman

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