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Terrorism could not defeat Israel, only stain the Palestinians’ reputation and divert global attention from settlements. But a policy designed to isolate, delegitimize, and sanction Israel could bring about its downfall. Lawfare, rather than warfare, became Abbas’s weapon of choice.

The Philadelphia studies suggest that place-based interventions are far more likely to succeed than people-based projects. “Tens of millions of vacant and abandoned properties exist in the United States,” write Branas and his team. Remediation programs “make structural improvements to the very context within which city residents are exposed on a da

UK government’s Nudge Unit to BJ Fogg’s Persuasive Technology Lab to the behavioral consulting firm ideas42

Le partage du crime a répandu le modèle allemand sur l’Europe. Et là où les juifs n’ont pas encore complètement disparu, là où leur présence est (encore) tangible, comme en France, on a commencé à se dire que leur demande était

After the publication of Herzl’s Altneuland in 1902, the battle between Herzl and Ahad Ha’am (who was by then Herzl’s most vociferous critic) grew even uglier. But just a year later, the pogrom in Kishinev led even the apolitical Ahad Ha’am to back off—everyone understood that the Jewish people needed to set aside differences and to prepare a way t

The choice in front of us is clear: either we can let networks form according to existing social, political, and economic patterns, which will likely leave us with more of the same inequities and destructive behaviors, or we can deliberately and strategically catalyze new networks to transform the systems in which we live and work.

For Rawls, however, “ideal theory” was always a precursor to “non-ideal theory”: whereas the former defines the goal, the latter “asks how this long-term goal might be achieved, or worked towards, usually in gradual steps.”[60] We need ideal theory because without a clear target to work towards, however remote, we are always in danger of merely twe