A group of Taiwan-based political watchers have launched a set of English language audio and video podcasts to help open an window on the ins and outs of current affairs on Taiwan.

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The key ingredients to effective feedback are: specificity, immediacy, and impact.
The history of behavioral science has taught us that a positive or negative reinforcement is most effective...

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Simply put, bipartisanship is working with the other party to get something done. It’s opposite, partisanship, is working only to get done what your party wants, at the expense of the o...

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It’s easy to feel powerless given our politics today. It feels like the media, big money and the elite are manipulating the system to their benefit at the expense of everybody else. You’re...

I guess I was looking for something harder-edged.  
Actually, that's a pretty safe bet. The best politico-econo-philosophy books I've read in recent years have all been more confrontational.
I liked John Dean's book on the mind of conservative...