Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Richard Fontaine

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

For all Waq al-waq readers please turn to C-Span’s Washington Journal, my favorite show, to see Richard Fontaine talking about Yemen and al-Qaeda.

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

“We are not our grandparents. It’s time to start thinking differently,” journalist Annie Jacobsen told Big Think.

The electoral reform also known as instant-runoff voting promises bridge-building and broad appeal instead of culture war and gridlock.

Historian Timothy Snyder talks with Big Think about how true liberty requires both negative and positive freedoms.

If you’re out on a walk, you will see a different world than your dog, a bee, or an ant. Here are three reasons why that matters.

It’s a problem on both sides of the political divide.

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