Who Needs Critical Thinking Skills When We've Got Facebook?

Guest post from Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais, fellows of NDN and the New Policy Institute and co-authors of Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics (Rutgers University Press: 2008), named one of the 10 favorite books by the...

Blog Action Day 2009: How Semantics Might Save the Planet

When I signed up to take part in Blog Action Day 2009, I thought, surely by the time I wrote the post, I would have something insightful to share about climate change. A personal story. A moment of enlightenment. A freakin’ antidote! But in time I could research...

Didn't Get To Go To The Inauguration, But My Plea Lives On…

I wasn’t sure I wanted to reveal this, but, what the heck.   After going back-and-forth on my own head, I decided to post this. I think, now more than ever, we should be sharing our stories of enduring humanity. Here’s my attempt… Put simply, this...