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