This recent article on The Atlantic website (August 28, 2013), by Sarah Garland points to the difficulties in closing the--now widening--achievement gaps in an era when our income disparities are increasing. It's not that race is becoming less of a determinant so...
See journalist Dan Froomkin's recent article on the Aljazeera America website about recent press coverage of the government shutdown: Shutdown Coverage Fails...
The Interactivity Foundation (IF) is pleased to announce the publication of a new discussion guidebook on “The Future of Family.” The guidebook was edited by IF Fellow Jeff Prudhomme and IF’s President Jack Byrd, Jr. The guidebook and the possibilities it...
This short Mother Jones article and reference to a longer report about the private prison industry, is interesting. I have wondered how the cost structures and business plans work when crime and incarceration rates decline. Who bears the costs for empty...
A recent article in the New York Times, Golden Rice: A Lifesaver?, touched on a number of intertwined food concerns, including-- Genetically modified organisms malnutrition (vitamin A deficiency) in the developing world leading to blindness and death Giving away...
This article from the July/August edition of Mother Jones magazine, Merchants of Meth, includes an interesting discussion of (1) a new "cook" method for meth ("shake and bake"), (2) state laws determining whether psuedoephidrene (key meth ingredient) is on the...
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We've recently completed a makeover on the website for the Interactivity Foundation! Our new website has a cleaner look, more images, improved blogging, easier navigation, and updated content. Among other changes, our blog posts can now be associated with and...
Generally, yes, according to recent research that is described in this PBS NewsHour video. http://video.pbs.org/video/2365029352/ Seems like this might have public policy implications not only for tax policy but for our criminal justice system as well: that is,...
This letter to the editor and subsequent comments from Sunday's NY Times on city and suburban and exurban regionalism, connectivity, and what has worked and hasn't worked to cross the divided urban landscape was interesting: Can Suburbs Help Cities?...
