With IF staff Adolf Gundersen and James Schneider conducting the afternoon discussion on climate change... Resilient Wisconsin Day A Wisconsin Academy forum on our climate, energy, and water future Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 8:30am to 4:30pm Varsity Hall, UW–Madison...

Bucking the long-term downward trend of traditional or "legacy" news media, two new "news groups" are expanding. the Breitbart News Network and First Look Media I wonder what, if any, significance attaches to the fact that that both have a clear ideological bent...

 Crime & Punishment is one of the Interactivity Foundation’s most recently published discussion guides. This guidebook presents five broad “possibilities” or frameworks for public policy for addressing the current and future challenges of our criminal justice...

Nicholas Kristof's Sunday column in the New York Times, "Professors We Need You," provided a good summary of the state of Academia, tenure/promotion practices, the demise of public intellectuals and writing for the masses. His column also quoted Jill Lepore's...

There have been two recent news items (at least) that directly address some key concerns--and even some of the policy possibilities--that are discussed in IF's recently published Crime & Punishment discussion guide. They also touch on issues relevant to some of...

This opinion piece, Scientific Pride and Prejudice, in the New York Times struck me as a worthy argument, but also an old and now largely obvious one. Who doesn't know by now that science is an imperfect process, highly affected by scientists' "prejudgments." ...

This recent article describes both some of the numbers and the politics around the EPA's push to draft and enact new rules concerning carbon emissions from both existing and new power plants:  E.P.A. Staff Struggling to Create New Pollution...

Last Monday's New York Times included a story about recent troubles at NHK, Japan's "most authoritative television and radio news source," and the difficulties it is having maintaining its "critical distance" from the current ruling party:  News Giant in Japan See...

I found this New Republic Article, The Farm Bill Still Gives Wads of Cash to Agribusiness. It's just sneakier about it, very interesting.  I especially like the discussion later in the article of the "submerged state" and how tax expenditures are so much more...

Sunday's NY Times Review featured an article, America on Probation, by Bill Keller that summarized some ongoing reform efforts in five areas of penal policy:  sentencing, supervision, diversion, re-entry, and policing. Also included a quote from David Kennedy...