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Many will argue that it’s the bombardment of injustices we face when we cross the threshold into the servery. It’s finding out that the menu lied to us. It’s having carbohydrates and nothing else shoved down our throats at brain break...

Author: By James A. Mcfadden | Title: First-World Problems: Navigating our Struggles | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

It’s our job to actually take the extra second to go beyond the immediate outrage or cynicism and recognize that, honestly, whatever is causing your struggles is likely trivial. First-world problems are laughable; as such, they should make you laugh, recognize the absurdity of the situation...

Author: By James A. Mcfadden | Title: First-World Problems: Navigating our Struggles | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

When Scott Brown was elected to the Senate in January, President Obama noted, “Here’s my assessment of not just the vote in Massachusetts, but the mood around the country: The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office.?...

Author: By Thomas Ponniah | Title: The Democratic Imagination | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

The proposal for a participatory budget process destabilizes the standard conception of the political debate: Conservatives who advocate for more market versus progressives who advocate for more state. The participatory budget process implicitly suggests that both the market and the state have to be supervised by the broader public. Simply...

Author: By Thomas Ponniah | Title: The Democratic Imagination | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

This novel methodology is also innovative at a personal level: Participatory democracy in Porto Alegre is “expressive” in the sense that it gives each individual the opportunity to collectively articulate his or her own original contribution to society. Rather than imagine democracy simply as a...

Author: By Thomas Ponniah | Title: The Democratic Imagination | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

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