"Ten years after the publication of No Logo, Naomi Klein switches her attention from the mall to Barack Obama and discovers that corporate culture has taken over the US government."

Ideas for Change in America is a crowd-sourcing competition that empowers citizens to identify and build momentum around a diverse range of ideas for addressing the challenges our country faces...Final round voting begins on March 1 and ends on March 12. The 10 most popular ideas will be presented to relevant members of the Obama Administration. from Change.org.

"It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it." by Al Gore in NYT.

"A lot of interesting new discoveries in evolutionary biology, neuroscience, child development, anthropology and more suggest that human nature might not be what Enlightenment philosophers suggested." from New Scientist.

"As people become increasingly comfortable with drawing their culture from a rich range of sources...it becomes more natural to do the same thing with their social, political and other cultural ideas." by Brian Eno in Prospect Magazine.

from wired.

community-moderated online town hall. from whitehouse.gov.

We the Tweeple of the United States...

short visual history.