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An unusual firm, New York–based ideas42, is dedicated to “using behavioral economics to do good” and does various projects on consumer decision making. The company, described as a

Joel Gurin • Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation (Business Books)

Obviously Reich’s influence went way beyond just me. Alongside other authors such as Anthony Giddens[411] and Jeremy Rifkin[412], he was instrumental in crafting the message of a new generation of progressive leaders that the era of the steady, lifelong job was over. In a more global and unstable world, lifelong education was the new key to providi

Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age

All of this destabilization places demands on us: to change, to reassess, and to reimagine who we need to become.

Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

and those technocrats who must be disrupted in order to rebuild an efficient government and public life.

George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond

But it also seems clear that reinforcing local community structures should not be the only approach. So many towns and neighborhoods in the United States are effectively mini-one-party states. With the demographic sorting that has taken place over the last 40 years, focusing our attention primarily on local politics and participation in local decis... See more

Alex Pentland • Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation — Digitalist Papers

From Asparouhova’s perspective, the lesson we should draw is not that bad ideas should in fact be suppressed but that good ideas require the trussing of sturdy, credible institutions—structures that might withstand the countervailing urge to raze everything to the ground.

Gideon Lewis-Kraus • Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral

civic renewal will hinge in the end on whether a critical mass of citizens come to recognize that they can best serve their own interests by associating with others to realize shared goals.

Daniel Stid • Top Down Democratic Decline vs. Bottom Up Civic Renewal: Eight Working Hypotheses

“Our problem is not that the Palestinians are not a people,” I told Kerry’s advisors. “It’s that they’re not a people ready to sustain statehood. Help them follow Israel’s model of creating viable institutions first and then erecting the state on top of them.”

Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide

We can’t predict the future, but we can explore