The history of U.S. electoral politics shows that, despite current appearances, third parties have been an active part of national, state and local races.
The Founding Fathers were said to have abhorred the idea of political parties, essentially wanting candidates to be elected on their...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Mitchell J. Rabin: Third Parties in America: When Will the Media Become Democratic?
Philip Ellis: How Do We Open Up The Social Media Echo Chamber Without Letting The Trolls In?
2016 is turning into one of the most politically explosive years in living memory. It is also the year that, if some pundits are to be believed, we lost our ability to even briefly consider an opinion that clashes with our own. In the wake of Brexit and amid the ruckus of the presidential...
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Fred Raillard : #FredinChina: Samsung Galaxy Note 7 faces its worst crisis in China
I’m Fred Raillard, Creative CEO, Co-founder and Creative Chief Officer with Farid Mokart of FRED & FARID, a social, content, tech solutions for brands company based in New York, Paris and Shanghai. #FredinChina is an essential social media podcast to know and understand the...
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How A Mother"s Age Could Affect The Mental Health Of Her Children
Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you.
The Background
There’s a lot of scary research out there on how parents’ ages impact their children. Some studies suggest that ...
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J. David Cox Sr.: Under a Trump presidency, who would be left to run the government?
Here’s Donald Trump’s tremendous plan for managing the federal government’s workforce if he’s elected president:
1) Fire employees at will;
2) Do not hire anyone else.
What could go wrong, right?
Donald Trump may be running as the non-establishment...
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Carlos M. Gutierrez, Jr. : Empowering Survivor Communities Through Commerce
Photo by Neil Ruskin
Economic empowerment is a commonly used term these days. Programs upon programs are developed and implemented with the hopes of providing disadvantaged populations with the necessary tools, skills, and resources that will allow them to improve their economic...
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Craig Kanalley: Well-Known Twitter Personality Anthony De Rosa Leaving Reuters
Anthony De Rosa confirmed in a tweet today that he’s leaving Reuters to join mobile and social news startup Circa.
His confirmation came within eight minutes of Circa tweeting a blog post introducing him as the company’s new Editor in Chief. De Rosa had been Social Media Editor...
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Ad Industry: FCC Shouldn't Break A Privacy Model That Works
Sometimes good government policy is as
simple as a schoolyard aphorism: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
The Federal Communications Commission is close to finalizing a rule-making to regulate the free and open Internet
that would impose new standards on Internet Service Providers. One ele...
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The Pink Fund Takes Social Into The Community
Between jobs, with five kids and having recently divorced, Molly MacDonald was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005. On line at the food bank one day, it struck her how many other patients
she’d met who were facing bankruptcy as they underwent treatment, which lasts seven to eight months on a...
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Lenovo Launches New Multimedia and Social Focused Online Newsroom
Lenovo recently relaunched their online newsroom with a focus on multimedia and social media. The site contains all of the necessary elements such as news releases, executive bios, blogs, press kits, photos, logos, videos and featured stories, but puts an emphasis on social. This allows L...
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UPDATED! In Defense of Instapundit Glenn Reynolds, Suspended from Twitter for Suggesting Motorists "Run Down" Charlotte Protesters
Updated (10:44 A.M.): Glenn Reynolds is back on Twitter. Scroll down to see this return-tweet.
One of the Internet’s most venerable institutions—Glenn Reynolds, the University of Tennessee law professor who runs the popular aggregator site Instapundit—has been suspended from Twi...
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Death Rates Rise for Young White Americans Too
wikimediaLast fall, when I read the alarming study by the Princeton researchers Anne Case and Angus Deaton that found that the mortality rate for midlife white non-Hispanic whites is rising, my thoughts turned immediately to McDowell County, West Virginia. Why? Because my family hails from...
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Grindr, War Hawks and Weed at CPAC
What was the most interesting thing you’d find at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this year? Young conservatives with decidedly libertarian points of view on social issues and foreign policy. Here is a roundup of Reason TV’s coverage:
View this...
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Social Issues, Not Economics, Largely Define Political Labels for Millennials
Reason-Rupe has a new survey and report out on
millennials—find the report
here.
Compared to Americans over 30, millennials are half as likely to
identify as politically conservative (14% to 34%), and nearly twice
as likely to say they’re liberal (25% to 14%). The latest
Reason-Rupe study of...
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Texas Teen Has Been in Jail for Months Over Bad-Taste Facebook Joke Taken for "Threat"
This particular idiocy just came to my attention today, via a
KHOU.com Houston report from earlier this week:
Justin Carter was 18 back in February when an online video game
“League of Legends” took an ugly turn on Facebook.
Jack Carter says his son Justin and a friend got ...
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Watching Porn Predicts Divorce? A Few Reasons To Be Skeptical
Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye/NewscomFor married folks, watching pornography can nearly double the divorce risk—or at least that’s how a new study on the topic is being spun. Behind the dire headlines, however, lies a much less alarming scenario.
Let’s start with what the study, &...
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Venezuela Prepares for Massive Protests By Arresting Activists
As Venezuela prepares for nationwide protests calling for the recall of its wildly unpopular President Nicolas Maduro scheduled for this Thursday, its socialist government is arresting activist leaders and opposition politicians.
In other words, business as usual for the...
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Twitter Planning Layoffs
Close on the heels of a failed auction, in which all the principal bidders eventually walked away, Twitter is preparing to cut costs with a new round of layoffs, according to Bloomberg, citing
anonymous sources familiar with the company’s plans.
The struggling social network could lay off as ...
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These Shows Are Perfect For Trump TV
Don’t expect these shows to be appearing on Donald Trump’s rumored TV network.
With the GOP nominee reportedly set to launch “Trump TV” following the presidential election, Twitter users have been imagining the names of shows that would be perfect for him ― but almost certainly won’t be broad...
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Guess I Will Never Know If You Can Hear Me Now
Amusingly, I got an email (not a phone call) from a friend pointing to a study that said, among other things, that 32% of mobile users would rather text you than talk to you. And that the 99% of
Americans with cell phones spend 26 minutes per day texting, and only six minutes on...
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10 Things to Hate About Bernie Sanders" Economic Policy: New At Reason
There is much to cheer about the unlikely competitiveness of Bernie Sanders against that joyless, big-government machine politician, Hillary Clinton. Sanders is comparatively decent and authentic, and his policies are worlds better on drugs, surveillance, and war. But as I write in the May...
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Beverly Macy: This Is Not a Bubble -- It"s a Wave, and You"re Not on It
In surfing, it’s the ‘tube’ ride or ‘cracking the barrel’ that creates heroes. There’s an aura around those who’ve mastered this skill and they say that words fail to describe the magnificence of the ocean and the ride.
In fact, tube riding is a...
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Alex Budak: Choosing To Lead
45 minutes into a killer bootcamp workout, sweat dripped from my forehead, my muscles ached.
With the fervor of a nervous first time city council candidate addressing a room of two dozen senior citizens holding turkey roll-ups, the trainer attempted to pump us up to keep going:...
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Katie Sgarro: 2016 Forbes Under 30 Summit Puts Social Impact At The Forefront Of Entrepreneurship
Forbes Under 30 Summit, City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA.
Impact is where the heart of this summit is. – Caroline Howard, Executive Digital Editor, Forbes Media
Held from October 16th-19th in Boston, Massachusetts, the tone of the 2016 Forbes Under 30 Summit matched the host...
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Jorge Newbery: Invest to Impact: "Making Money Matter" in an Era of Crisis
The integrity of our culture and the safety of our planet are waning under money’s perpetuation of greed. Money is largely regarded as the measure of personal wealth and the pathway to material possession with little regard for its potential to halt societal and environmental...
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