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Crisis by design
A statutory debt ceiling disconnected from the regular budget process is just a posturing opportunity for leaders who refuse to govern responsibly…
May 31
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Michael Slaby
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Section 230 isn't the tool we need
Two major Supreme Court cases decided last week show where we need to focus our attention if we hope to create a framework for guiding and regulating…
May 22
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Michael Slaby
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Weekend Edition: No more blank pages
Some will see that declaration as a rubicon of achievement in the arrival of generative AI and be elated. But what might we be giving up?
May 13
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Michael Slaby
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April 2023
Weekend Edition: Insufficiently public, insufficiently just
Fox News's settlement might be getting in the way of an opportunity to get what we need from the Sullivan standard and our defense of the First…
Apr 23
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Michael Slaby
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A new labor race to the bottom?
Our policies about people need attention before we completely dehumanize ourselves.
Apr 4
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Michael Slaby
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February 2023
Weekend Edition: What our debate about Section 230 and platform liability should be about
Two cases this week about Section 230 and social media liability for terrorism could affect the next generation of information and media systems and…
Feb 26
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Michael Slaby
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The exceptional outsider democratists
A wonderful, posthumous gift from David Graeber invites us to think differently about the roots of democratic culture and the functioning of democratic…
Feb 23
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Michael Slaby
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Weekend Edition: A familiar breathlessness
What the last decade wrestling with the potential and effects of social media might teach us about how we greet ChatGPT.
Feb 17
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Michael Slaby
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January 2023
Weekend Edition: We Were All Environmentalists Once
Our estrangement from nature might just be both older and less permanent that we think
Jan 21
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Michael Slaby
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The Schadenfreude of the Speaker
As much fun as was had last week watching the hammering Speaker McCarthy took on the way to the gavel, if it really is "The People's House", then it's…
Jan 12
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Michael Slaby
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Welcoming you to the conversation
To those of you who’ve been reading 7 Bridges for a while, thanks for that — I hope these essays and ideas might have encouraged some different…
Jan 5
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Michael Slaby
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December 2022
Weekend Edition: Beginnings and Transformation
Is there a modern equivalent of the 95 Theses? Does it matter? Perhaps we don't need the permission of history to begin.
Dec 31, 2022
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Michael Slaby
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