October 4, 2013 False Equivalency and the Appearance of Press Neutrality at all Costs See journalist Dan Froomkin's recent article on the Aljazeera America website about recent press coverage of the government shutdown: Shutdown Coverage Fails Americans.
October 3, 2013 New Discussion Guidebook on The Future of Family 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...
September 19, 2013 Guaranteed Occupancy Rates for Prisons? 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...
August 26, 2013 A Volatile Stew: GMOs, childhood blindness, Vitamin A, non-profit development and more 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...
August 16, 2013 Merchants of Crime & Death – Big Pharma 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...
August 14, 2013 Stopping Stop and Frisk [lightbox link="https://cdn.interactivityfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Stop-and-Frisk.jpg" thumb="https://cdn.interactivityfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Stop-and-Frisk-300x300.jpg" width="300" align="right" title="Stop and Frisk" frame="true" icon="image"]This Op-Ed piece in the NY Times presents several arguments as to why the police enforcement policy known as "stop and...
August 12, 2013 IF Website Has a New Look 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...
August 7, 2013 Are the Rich Less Ethical? 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...
August 5, 2013 Can Suburbs Help Cities? 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...