Welcome to the third and final installment of WORT’s Innovations in Democracy series. We’ve been exploring new ways of using digital technology to expand participatory democracy to a larger population of diverse citizens. Innovations in Democracy is produced by Roslyn Fuller, with assistance from Ahmed Teleb. In this episode, we focus on the ideas of […]
Innovations in Democracy, Part 2: Citizen Referenda
Welcome to the second installment of WORT’s Innovations in Democracy series. In this three-part series, we’ll be talking to global experts to explore new ways of using digital technology to expand participatory democracy to a larger population of diverse citizens. Innovations in Democracy is produced by Roslyn Fuller, with assistance from Ahmed Teleb. In this […]
Innovations in Democracy, Part 1: Participatory Budgeting
Welcome to the first installment of WORT’s Innovations in Democracy series. Over the next three episodes, we’ll be exploring new ways of using digital technology to expand participatory democracy to a larger population of diverse citizens. Innovations in Democracy is produced by Roslyn Fuller, with assistance from Ahmed Teleb. In this episode, we focus on […]
Tattoos for Your Health
Imagine going to your doctor’s office and leaving with a prescription for a tattoo. You know, to protect your health. My grandmother would have been shocked. Then again, imagine being able to temporarily turn off your tattoos, making them invisible when you visit your easily shocked grandmother, but then turn them on again when you’re […]
Conservative Conservationists on Climate Change
On September 14, after touring some of the 3.2 million acres of land that burned in California’s worst wildfire season to date, President Donald Trump sat down in a roundtable with California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot. After Crowfoot brought up climate change as a cause for the fires, Trump said, “It will get cooler, […]
The Philosophy of Political Lies
Since 2016, the Washington Post has maintained a database of “false or misleading claims” — less euphemistically called lies — that President Trump has made during his presidency. As of July 9 — apparently the Post’s fact-checkers have lost count since then — the paper reports Trump has uttered 20,055 falsehoods in 1,267 days, for […]
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