Related Readings

In the interest of promoting discussion other opinions on topics related to this Democracy Forum blog are listed here. These are articles that I run across in browsing the net. I try to list sources representing all sides of an issue and all related opinions.  If you find others I would appreciate a heads-up and will gladly list them here.

•  Jobs
  • There will be much less work in the future,  We need to rethink our societies – World Economic Forum
  • A Peek at Future Jobs Shows Growing Economic Divides – The New York Times
  • The onrushing wave – The future of jobs – The Economist
  • These Will Be The Top Jobs In 2025 (And The Skills You’ll Need) – Fast Company
  • The fourth industrial revolution is upon us – The Washington Post
  • Coming technology will likely destroy millions of jobs. Is Trump ready? – The Washington Post
  • Finland has started a national basic income experiment – QZ.com
  • A World Without Work – The Atlanti
  • McKinsey: automation may wipe out 1/3 of America’s workforce by 2030 – Axios.com
  • The future of American jobs lies with the tech industry – TechCrunch
  • A Peek at Future Jobs Shows Growing Economic Divides – The New York Times
  • The case for the 28-hour work week – TheWeek.com
  • Is the Populist Revolt Over? Not if Robots Have Their Way – The New York Times
  • The Robots Are Coming – The New York Times
  • The messy truth about income inequality – The Washington Post
  • How the Loss of Union Power Has Hurt American Manufacturing – The New York Times
• Education
  • How Silicon Valley Plans to Conquer the Classroom – New York Times
  • The Future of Education: How A.I. and Immersive Tech Will Reshape Learning Forever – Medium.com
  • The Future of Education: 10 Trends To Watch – Huffington Post
  • The Future Of Education: We Live In A Social World – Huffington Post
  • Make College Free for All – The Washington Post
  • Democracy and Education in the United States – Oxford Research Encyclopedia
• Government & Law
  • Fix this Democracy – Now  –  Washington Post
  • How We Got the Electoral College – DelanceyPlace.com
  • How Much Did Your Vote Cost?  Spending Per Voter in the 2014 Senate Races – Brookings
  • Citizens United v. FEC – Wikipedia
  • 2018’s most important, expensive and strange election – The Washington Post
  • The Art of Passing Legislation – DelanceyPlace.com
  • The Question of States’ Rights: The Constitution and American Federalism – Exploring Constitutional Law
  • American Democracy Is Drowning in Money – The New York Times
  • The uncertain future of democracy – BBC
  • Is There a Future for Democracy? – The Institute for Human Sciences
  • This explains how social media can both weaken — and strengthen — democracy. – The Washington Post
  • The Pentagon Is Not a Sacred Cow – The New York Times
  • The Need For Deconstruction Of The Apocalyptic State – HuffPost
  • Deconstructing and (re?)constructing democracy – Agent of History
  • Compromise and Democracy – Kaieteur News
  • How to Reverse Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission – The Atlantic
  • How Can the U.S. Change the Influence of Money in Politics? – The Atlantic
  • A storm is gathering – The Washington Post
  • Angry voters can be high-information voters – The Washington Post
  • A time for congressional term limits – TheHill
  • The case for Supreme Court term limits has never been stronger – Vox
  • Why so much of the U.S. tax code is social policy – MarketPlace.org
  • Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy? – The New York Times
  • Sharper State Divide in Congress Seen as ‘New Civil War’ – The New York Times
  • Facebook admits social media sometimes harms democracy – The Washington Post
  • In Free-Range Trump, Many See Potential for a Third Party – The New York Times
  • Why Third Parties Don’t Work – Newsweek
  • Why are there only two parties in American politics? – The Washington Post
  • Staging a comeback for democracy – The Washington Post
  • Big Money in Politics Threatens Political and Racial Equality – truth-out.org
  • Boycott the Republican Party – The Atlantic
  • Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and how democracies die – Vox
  • Why It Can Happen Here – The New York Times/Krugman
  • People don’t vote for what they want. They vote for who they are. – The Washington Post
  • Why dictators love Facebook – The Washington Post
• Organized Religion & Community
  • Is organized religion bad for society? – The Tylt
  • Does Organized Religion Have a Good or Bad Impact on Society? – Meetup.com
  • The Benefits of Organized Religion in Society – The Millennial Review
  • The death of Christianity in the U.S. – Baptist News Global
  • Why the Trump era won’t pass without serious damage to America – Raw Story
  • Want to strengthen American democracy? Exercise your freedom of religion  — Quartz
  • Are Religion and Democracy Compatible? – The Moderate Voice
  • Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy and Religion – Facing History and Ourselves
  • BlackRock’s Message: Contribute to Society, or Risk Losing Our Support – The New York Times
  • 50 Years Later, It Feels Familiar: How America Fractured in 1968 – The New York Times
  • Book Review: Exceptional America: What Divides Americans from the World and from Each Other by Mugambi Jouet – LSE Review of Books
  • America’s True History of Religious Tolerance — Smithsonian
  • ‘Yes, I’m Running as a Socialist.’ Why Candidates Are Embracing the Label in 2018 – The New York Times
  • The Blindness of Social Wealth – The New York Times
  • When Is a Church Not a Church? – The New York Times
• Change & Rate of Change
  • The Upside of Being Ruled by the Five Tech Giants – New York Times
  • Building A.I. That Can Build A.I. – New York Times
  • Is internet freedom a tool for democracy or authoritarianism? – TheConversation.com
  • Internet’s impact on democracy – SFGate
  • We’re at cyberwar. And the enemy is us. – The Washington Post
• Capitalism, Economy & Financial Well-being in America
  • Americans aren’t taxed enough – The Washington Post
  • Paradise Papers Shine Light on Where the Elite Keep Their Money – The New York Times
  • American hyper-capitalism breeds the lonely, alienated men who become mass killers – Raw Story
  • Wealth Inequality in the United States – Wikipedia
  • The Distribution of Pain – Mauldin Economics
  • Capitalism – Wikipedia
  • Wealth Special Section – New York Times
  • Are mergers good or bad for the economy? – CBS News
  • How Mergers Damage the Economy – The New York Times
  • At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals – The Washington Post
  • The coming wave of media consolidation – The Week
  • Consumption and the Consumer Society – Tufts
  • American Consumer Society – Mount Holyoke College
  • The Surprising Threat to the American Economy – Barron’s
  • Alternatives to the Consumer Society – International Environment Forum
  • ‘Production Economy’ vs ‘Consumption Economy’ – Mandel on Innovation and Growth
  • New economic model needed not relentless consumer demand | Guardian Sustainable Business – The Guardian
  • Why monopolies are threatening American democracy – The Washington Post
  • US Debt is a Huge Problem that Congress will Find Hard to Fix – Daily News
  • How Inequality Undermines Democracy – E-International Relations
  • The Tax Bill That Inequality Created – The New York Times
  • A debt crisis is on the horizon – The Washington Post
  • Hillary Clinton Finally Takes On Corporate Monopolists — Washington Monthly
  • The United States is mortgaging its future – The Washington Post
  • America’s white people are sharply divided by income and education — and Donald Trump is the direct result – Raw Story
  • Is Capitalism a Threat to Democracy? – The New Yorker