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We discovered that these seemingly irrelevant features of social media—specifically, graphics that remind people about their party loyalties—have a powerful influence on how social networks operate. Wide

There is very little social redundancy in weak ties.

Thus the issue of minority inclusion is not about historically poor Americans becoming better off at the expense of the rich: it is about all Americans becoming progressively worse off than they were at the turn of the millennium.

This lesson Robert Moses would often recite to associates. He would put it this way: As long as you’re fighting for parks, you can be sure of having public opinion on your side. And as long as you have public opinion on your side, you’re safe. “As long as you’re on the side of parks, you’re on the side of the angels. You can’t lose.”

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neighborhoods are ideal environments that make community organization possible and natural and that consequently can create practical Politics for human sustainable development.

so any institutions that favor putting younger people in charge will be more dynamic. This would have sped up experimentation and innovation.

On the other hand, a civil war would become less likely if a new regeneracy redefines America’s partisan divide—in a way that either allows both sides to cooperate or enables one side to dominate politically.