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		<title>The Difference Between Compromise and Surrender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Toobin has an excellent piece in the New Yorker (dated next week) about the significance of the Stupak amendment, its significance for health care reform, and the tendency of feminists and pro-choice advocates to cede the moral high ground to their opponents. He explains: &#8230;as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg observed not long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leahstern.org/2009/11/the-difference-between-compromise-and-surrender/</link>
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		<title>Strength in Numbers: Eli Pariser Talks Online Organizing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to be part of a fascinating conversation with Eli Pariser last week, as part of Gina Glantz&#8216;s study group at the Kennedy School&#8217;s Institute of Politics. Eli, who currently serves as President of the Board of MoveOn.org and is the founder of Avaaz.org, came to speak about the politics of engagement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leahstern.org/2009/11/strength-in-numbers/</link>
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		<title>Another Perspective on Health Care Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Malcolm Gladwell New Yorker article is old, but it&#8217;s useful to consider the debate over health care reform with an understanding of the difference between a social insurance and an actuarial insurance model. (My econ professor sent it to us because we&#8217;re examining moral hazard in class.)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leahstern.org/2009/11/another-perspective-on-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<title>Thanks, Veterans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A belated thanks to the veterans out there. I am so glad that I have had the chance to get to know a few of you this semester. I think it&#8217;s important that anyone involved in public policy, especially international policy, get to know some members of the armed forces and listen to their perspectives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leahstern.org/2009/11/thanks-veterans/</link>
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		<title>The People Who Click</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bit more about clicking patterns online. The datais parallel to that in the eNonprofit Benchmarks Study, indicating that these insights are important for not just nonprofit organizations but anyone trying to get attention online. Hat tip.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leahstern.org/2009/11/the-people-who-click/</link>
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		<title>The Siren Song of Online Advocacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nonprofits have to start thinking beyond the ways they can get people to participate in specific, curtailed campaigns to the opportunities for taking advantage of the creative thinking and passion in their communities of supporters. 

In both advocacy and fundraising, it's clear that the best resources for nonprofits are the members of that elite group of super-active supporters, but nonprofits are only tapping that resource in predetermined, well-understood ways.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leahstern.org/2009/10/the-siren-song-of-online-advocacy/</link>
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		<title>An Old Friend and New Thinking about Sports Journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My awesome friend John, a blogger, journalist, and thinker about life&#8217;s big and small challenges, has been quietly racking up a very impressive list of news coverage lately for his new project over at Northwestern&#8217;s Intelligent Information Lab. The project is Stats Monkey, a system that takes box scores and other statistical information about sports [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leahstern.org/2009/10/n-old-friend-and-new-thinking-about-sports-journalism/</link>
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		<title>The Groundswell of Advocacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was a perfect day to be thinking about the groundswell and advocacy. At about 11 this morning, President Obama&#8217;s official Twitter page sent a tweet asking people to call their member of Congress and express their support for health reform. The goal was 100,000 calls to Congress, but they had reached their goal within [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leahstern.org/2009/10/the-groundswell-of-advocacy/</link>
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		<title>advocacy 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MoveOn has had phenomenal success with this strategy, and has had an impact on the public discussion of domestic and foreign policy far beyond that of much older, more experienced nonprofits. It's possible that MoveOn's opposition to the Iraq war fundamentally altered the political conversations about the presidential election and was a significant factor in a perfect convergence of factors that allowed Obama to win the election.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leahstern.org/2009/10/advocacy-2-0/</link>
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		<title>Linking for Women&#8217;s Empowerment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In India, New Seat of Power for Women - Washington Post
Women in India, where sex-selective abortion has made men disproportionately more common in the population, women are leveraging their relative scarcity and making suitors pay for a toilet in their homes, thus preventing disease and improving health in rural and poor communities. The government-supported initiative has been far more successful than other programs, including one run by the World Bank.]]></description>
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