Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.