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Meet the reformer: Sterling Speirn, promotor of 31 fix-the-system ideas
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Make the Supreme Court Less Political. Put Term Limits on Justices.
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A Playbook for Regaining Our Common Purpose
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Takeaways from The Public Face of Science in America: Priorities for the Future
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Association of Science and Technology Centers
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Revitalizing Democracy During COVID-19 and Beyond
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AMA Journal of Ethics
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MIT’s Sherry Turkle on technology and empathy during — and after — the pandemic
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Why on this Fourth of July, America urgently needs to reinvent itself again
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The radicalism of the American Revolution — and its lessons for today
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Tech companies are finally being shamed into action
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Why Coronavirus Is an ‘Existential Crisis’ for American Democracy
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Greater Global Scientific Cooperation Needed in Pandemic Fight
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Rebuilding Trust in American Democracy
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Study commission calls for constitutional amendment limiting influence of money on elections
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We seek reforms to policing. But something even deeper needs repair.
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Amid inequality and polarization, how can we strengthen American democracy?
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America’s neck is broken. We can survive, but we have to act.
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The situation is dire. We need a better normal at the end of this — and peace.
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