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Latest Issues
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Frequently Updated
- Quantifying Political Ideologies
- oil dependence
- George W. Bush and his administration
- Global Warming
- Snippets: links to be filed
Who Woulda Thunk
- 2006-01-30 Study Ties Political Leanings to Hidden Biases
- 2006-01-24 Democrats and Republicans Both Adept at Ignoring Facts, Study Finds (alt)
Not So Great
- 2006-05-15 Internet Neutrality is now an article
- 2006-01-24 The Broadband Battle: Round I: mega-media corporations are working to control what content you view, which services you use online, and whether others can see the content you create.
- 2005-12-29 FBI targeting US activist activities as 'domestic terrorism': it was inevitable, right?
- 2005-10-09 Keep your U.N. off my Internet
Topics for Discussion
- 2005-10-21 New section: Frequently Arising Questions: ask questions, find answers
- 2005-10-01 Governmental Brainstorming
- 2005-09-27 Wanted Articles
- 2005-09-23 2005-09-15 DOJ reply to Howard Dean
- 2005-09-18 Prediction Registry
- 2005-09-06 Thoughts on Red vs. Blue
Current Outrage
- 2005-10-04 Florida's new "shoot first" law
- 2005-09-01 Response to Hurricane Katrina
- 2005-06-23 High court OKs personal property seizures
Bizarre
- 2005-06-25 Gas Guzzling Pride
Shifting Sands
- 2005-06-23 Flag-burning amendment approved by House: if this isn't intended as a measure to stifle protest, then what does it serve?
Latest Links
- 2005-11-22 Religious Tolerance: much discussion and research
- 2005-06-11 WikiTution: first example I've seen of an attempt to use a Wiki to improve government
- 2005-06-09 Marc Perkel: some interesting links, though the text is a bit dated
- 2005-06-03 The Downing Street Memo
Related Projects
- MorePerfect (wiki, forum, and blog): collaboration on laws and public policy
- Campaigns Wikia: most similar project yet (found 2006-07-06)
- Wikocracy: "This is a test to see what happens when everyone can write and revise the law."
- news article about projects with similar intent (but a slightly different approach) to this one
- dKosopedia: "a collaborative project of the DailyKos community to build a political encyclopedia"
- World Citizen at WikiCities
- Activism Wiki at WikiCities (still very small as of 2005-04-07)
- The Ideal Government Project
- OurCampaigns: "collaborative political website"